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A user shares their experience of backtracking between cities while traveling and suggests creating an app that visually lays out multi-city routes to help travelers plan more efficiently and save on transport costs.
Okay so this is a dumb tax I paid for months and maybe I'm the only idiot, but sharing in case it helps someone. When I first started nomading through South America, I'd book flights/buses city by city based on vibes. "Oh Medellín sounds cool, then maybe Quito, then Lima." I didn't actually look at a map to see if my route made sense. Result: I literally flew Medellín → Quito → **back north** to Cartagena → then south again to Lima. I paid for like 2 extra flights (\~$180) just because I didn't plan the route geographically. What finally fixed it: 1. I started plotting my stops on a map before booking anything. Sounds obvious but I wasn't doing it. 2. Found an app called Vaykr that lets you lay out your whole multi-city route visually. Game changer for seeing "oh wait, Cartagena should come BEFORE Quito, not after." 3. Now I batch book in geographic order. Usually saves $100-300 per month in unnecessary transport. Other routing tips I've picked up: * Use Google Flights "explore" to see what's cheap FROM your current location * One-way flights in LATAM are often barely more than bus tickets on budget airlines (Viva Air, JetSmart, SKY) * Overnight buses save both transport AND accommodation cost Anyone else learn dumb expensive lessons their first months? I can't be the only one who didn't zoom out on a map 😅