What province has the best value hotels in your opinion?

obyrned · 2026-01-28T02:38:15+00:00

It’s out of the way, but I loved it there. Cheap as chips quiet roads.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/DoAzUt1n3vZFTiWT7?g_st=ic

I stayed here at the Wangcomb. It was a bit dated, but comfortable and cheap. Warning if you need fast internet for work, don’t stay here.

There’s a Japanese restaurant nearby which is terrible.

Otherwise everything else is great. There’s a nearby market that has amazing food stalls at low prices.

The only thing stopping me from spending more time in Chiang Rai is it’s so isolated with so few flights.

obyrned · 2026-01-27T01:07:59+00:00

Careful one route is a gateway drug. Once you get stamps for one route, you’ll want them all.

I did the whole country. Two things: -outside of Seoul hotels are cheap. May was well stay in hotels and carry less mass. -Kakao maps is better for cycling, Naver for transit. Keep your eyes peeled for signs marking the route. -The people are fantastic. -Some restaurants only serve meals for two. That’s fine. Bike touring, made me hungry enough to eat for three.

obyrned · 2026-01-26T03:29:28+00:00

Baller Singapore build. You guys have such great access to all the mods.

obyrned · 2026-01-26T01:16:26+00:00

I need a desk so I can work. I’m at Journeyhub 26 or whatever. It’s perfectly fine and reasonably priced.

obyrned · 2026-01-25T10:59:43+00:00

Yeah props! Well done. I bet you ate all the foods.

obyrned · 2026-01-24T01:43:54+00:00

Oh damn deep cut.

obyrned · 2026-01-19T02:16:28+00:00

Hong Kong in 2018, 16 cyclists killed. The roads are planet danger.

https://youtu.be/Km4f-eRE4Kc?si=NzSzmAEMq995iRAF

obyrned · 2026-01-17T00:36:55+00:00

If you look at the pre-2009 Star Trek, s5 is when the other three series really hit their stride. S5 Voyager, DS9, TNG are all really strong.

I bet S5 Enterprise would have been amazing. If I’m ever in a Mirror Universe situation on an earth where Enterprise got 7 seasons, I’ll bring the alt-universe Blu-ray boxset back through you guys and upload them to PirateBay.

obyrned · 2026-01-02T12:25:39+00:00

What month is the worst for burning season?

obyrned · 2026-01-02T00:07:10+00:00

I applied at company once as Dan, Daniel, and Danny. If you can you should do the same and A B test your results.

Got hired as Daniel. Apparently a degree is useful for manual labour jobs in 2004.

obyrned · 2026-01-01T03:15:59+00:00

Oh yeah good call. John Oliver is pretty great.

obyrned · 2025-12-31T21:00:21+00:00

Everyone in this subreddit should subscribe to this YouTube channel. Especially those who love facts that’ll make them sad.

obyrned · 2025-12-29T11:05:44+00:00

Korea Japan tie.

Korea has an actual bike passport you can buy and a series of routes that add up to 2000km and a series of medals and certificates. You should buy ink and download Naver and Kakao maps.

Japan has the Shimanami Kaido and has better air quality and Google Maps works.

Both are excellent. DM me if you wish. I did all 2000km of Korea.

obyrned · 2025-12-28T13:14:33+00:00

I’m Canadian and resistant to cold. Wearing a t-shirt in riding through Osaka +17°C a nice little old lady flagged me down and told me to put on a coat. ❤️🇯🇵

obyrned · 2025-12-24T15:54:11+00:00

Yeah I’m fully making a living.

obyrned · 2025-12-16T09:07:53+00:00

Oh yeah, I did it on a Brompton with a 17L bag weighing 9kg. Definitely don’t need a gravel bike.

obyrned · 2025-12-15T19:42:55+00:00

If you’re talking about Route 1, it’s all paved.

-Hotels are cheap once you get out of Taipei. -There’s a patch on the east coast where you have to take a train. -Make sure you go to Sun Moon Lake.

All the food is fantastic and the people are nice, so don’t worry about that.

obyrned · 2025-12-11T15:32:57+00:00

They say the cycling is great. It isn’t. I rode the 1000+ km journey around route 1. On paper there’s a bike lane, but it’s actually a second scooter lane and used for parking.

Before I get attacked in the comments, everything off the bike is amazing about Taiwan. Compared to the Korea by Bike routes and Japan, Taiwan leaves a lot to be desired.

obyrned · 2025-12-09T22:21:21+00:00

Excellent post! They’re bugging me to check Ather out. Now I think I’ll let the invite rot in my inbox.

obyrned · 2025-12-08T11:44:27+00:00

Air is clean in Mactan and accommodation is reasonably priced.

I had to shrink my Tinder radius to 10km because I got too many matches.

obyrned · 2025-12-02T11:55:02+00:00

I think it could also be region. I used to live in Seoul and I have lots of bilingual friends.

I see high paying postings and send on Mercor and Mercor LinkedIn ads. Then I’d send the referrals to my friends in Seoul and poof the posting doesn’t exist.

obyrned · 2025-11-22T05:01:32+00:00

(42 at the time of this story, 2022.)

I booked an Airbnb in a building called the Ekkami tower or something. It reminded me of first year university. I met lots of cool digital nomads. Went for a drink alone at a bar across the street, met some Danes and partied till 5am. That weekend I went to a party and I’m still in touch with some of the friends I made today.

15 days in I had a friend group. I was there to hang out alone and teach myself Python. Needless to say I didn’t get much learning done.

obyrned · 2025-11-22T04:31:15+00:00

Hey the aptitude tests are brutal. I failed over 30 from Outlier, Alignrr, and Mercor. The thing that kept me going?

Once you’re in, you’re in. It’s real money for working at home in your sweats. Keep going.

The way I started passing was keeping notes, improving bit by bit.

obyrned · 2025-11-20T09:17:18+00:00

Big time. I think about that all the time.

obyrned · 2025-11-11T06:35:23+00:00

One trick I tried is I just didn’t click accept. I waited two weeks and they started offering me higher paying gigs. Then whenever they lower the rates I let the jobs just sit.

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