I am doing this currently and have been doing this for the past 2 years. It looks like the author is mostly in Europe/North America (judging from the youtube vi

I am doing this currently and have been doing this for the past 2 years. It looks like the author is mostly in Europe/North America (judging from the youtube videos), whereas I'm mostly in Africa and parts of Asia. > When you go with an Airbnb, you’re typically renting from another individual, not a professional business. I try my absolute best to stay with individuals! They seem to care a lot more than agencies. I try to stay in places where the owner lives nearby, maybe they built another house on their land or split their apartment in 2 etc. When I was traveling along the garden route in South Africa, the hosts would invite me over for a braai (BBQ) or have a beer together. When it's a real host/guest "relationship" people care more about their properties and the guest experience. When people outsource their management to an agency, it just becomes another investment and people are completely detached from it and the people that stay there. On the topic of knives, I travel with my own. That's unavoidable in my opinion. I also travel with an electric grill (george foreman ripoff) because I _hate_ cooking meat on electric hobs (that aren't induction based). > Of course, we’ve definitely learned a lot from our mistakes over the past couple years. As soon as we started traveling full time, we realized that our budget of $1,200 USD a month was way too low. That's my upper budget, I try to stay closer to 1,000 USD.