Logistics is the most overlooked part of picking up abroad, but it is crucial.

You can get spruced up and go out, have women swooning over you all night and run your best game, but if you don’t have a place to do the deed, it’s all for nothing. Don’t get me wrong, sometimes you’ll ‘get lucky’. She might have her own place—or be slutty enough to take a pounding in the nightclub toilet or your hostel dorm room—but the truth is, more often than not, you’ll end up alone in a frustrated wankaton, thinking about what could have been.

Hoping to get lucky? Fuck that. Real luck is simply preparation meeting opportunity.

Logistics, logistics, logistics.

The more I travel, the more I feel the need to hammer home this point in caveman speak: NO ROOM, NO BOOM-BOOM. If your logistics are sucky, you ain’t getting lucky.

This means spending more money and increasing your travel budget. Don’t like the sound of that? Well, then go fuck yourself. Literally. Quality chicks don’t dig  ninja sex in smelly dorms.

In conclusion, you need to upgrade from a Backpacker’s budget to a Player’s budget.  In general, whether you’re bouncing around  Asia, Africa or Europe, this equates to roughly $1500-$2000+ a month, minimum. When I first starting travelling I got by on $1200 a month, but now I  spend around 2K and shell out for proper accommodation and drink like a fish every night. As result, the amount of naked women in my bed has increased ten-fold.

So, here’s the game plan…

Rent an Apartment

Win.

This is the best possible option. Make sure it’s near the action, too. Google ‘city x’, ‘short term’ and ‘apartment’, or use sites likes AirBnB.com. Even if you’re only staying two nights, it’s worth it. You’d be surprised what gems you can get for $30 a night. (From now on in my city guides, I will give you guys tips in this regard). I also recommend you get an apartment with wifi. It’s make a huge different, especially in conservative countries. With the web, your place becomes a web itself. You can creep online for local ladies without even venturing outside, meet them discreetly, and lure them back to feast on their flesh. Also, it’s just good if you want to check your emails, log on to partycasino.com or read the best of the manosphere.

Renting a hotel room

You could also get a hotel room—an expensive option, that personally, I avoid like the plague. Unfortunately, sometime you have no choice. The most important thing is to make sure that your hotel is ‘guest’ friendly. You’d be surprised how many hotels are cunts about people having casual sex. In the Middle East, even in a relatively liberal place like Lebanon, they ask for passports and details. If you’re with a local, they cannot stay with you to stay there unless you’re married. WTF? I know this from painful experience, hotel-hopping in Beirut for two hours in the middle of the night.

Private Room in a Hostel

Coin flip.

This is often a great compromise. Many (if not most) hostels offer cheap private rooms. You meet people, get the party atmosphere of a hostel, but you don’t have to deal with dorm rooms or the expense of hotels. In Scandinavia, this was ace.  The only problem is this: many hostels, like hotels, are not ‘guest’ friendly either. In Georgia, for example, every hostel we went to don’t even let locals (except staff) on the premises! I had the same problems in China and Africa. Western European hostels tend to be major cockblockers, too, with heavy security at night and rigorous interrogations before they even let you inside.

“Where is your key card?”

“What your name and room number?”

“Who is that drunk black chick hoisted over you’re shoulder?”

Give me break, will ya?! I understand you need to keep out sleazy whoremongers and street hookers, but what about us legitimate players just having fun?

Love Motels / Brothels

Ah, memories.

A last resort, but sometimes, in the likes of Liberia or Korea, you have no choice than a rent-by-the-hour shithole. Hey, if it gets the job done, screw it. It’s better than nothing. At least in East Asia these places have a limited degree of class. But have you ever smelt the cum of  the unwashed pillows of a Guinean brothel?

I have. 

Too many times, my friends.

But it’s the sacrifice I make to get the job done.

Other Articles on Logistics:

How to have sex in a hostel by Nomadic Matt

The secret to fast sex by Roosh V

Advanced Logistics video by Adam Lyons

“The Way of Men is the Way of the Gang,” as Jack Donovan put it in his latest book, arguing that gangsterism is the milk of unfettered masculinity. One of the books main tenets is that men are most comfortable when they are members of a small band of men. It’s true, too. No man is an island. Nor is he an emotionless node whose sole purpose is to serve humanity. He is a social primate who prefers the company of small groups of friends.

What’s the difference between a gang and a crew?

Nada, but for the purposes of this post, a crew refers to an itinerant gang: a bunch of lads travelling together, hell-bent on hedonism.

I appreciate guys who regularly venture out on their lonesome to travel, party and game. I never go out alone at home, but when I’m travelling solo in a strange country I have little choice. There are advantages of solo travel vs buddy travel. It can be the most rewarding experience in the world. It’s not always easy or fun, but you’re more flexible and make no compromises. I still do solo trips, but personally, I’m in my element rolling with a crew of 3+. There is a several reasons why I prefer it, but the main reason is simply because it’s way more fun.

In the past, I’ve often gotten emails saying…

Hey NN,

I want to travel, I really do, but none of my friends are on the same wavelength. They just want to spend two weeks in a resort in Touristville. They’re convinced that Asia/Africa/wherever is an undeveloped shithole. How do I convince them to join me on a real adventure?

Sadly for a lot of dudes, sometimes it’s hard to find like-minded guys who are willing to hit the road with you. So what’s one to do?

Option A: Go anyway. If you spent your whole life waiting for other people you’d go nowhere. Fuck Touristville with the lads, grow some balls and roll solo to Crapistan or wherever you were planning – you’ll have a better time.

Option B: Start a crew.

Starting a crew in 3 steps

1. Make a compelling itinerary.

Find reasonably priced flights and pick good locations using this technique. After that, float the idea to friends, baiting them before mentioning the cheap price to seal the deal. Tell them about the sexy women, the cheap beer and tales of adventure. Make it sound so good they’d be stupid not to go.

Here ‘s an example from Ernest Shackleton in his quest to reach the South Pole.

Seriously, who could resist that? OK, bad example. Here’s another from Cartman recruiting his Somali Pirate crew.

Avast there, mateys! Do ya have a thirst for adventure on the high seas of life?  Arrre you sick and tired of your parents and teachers telling you what to do all the time? Then join Captain Cartman’s Perfect Pirate Club, arrrr! Just imagine it, me hearties! A life without rules, without homework and chores! You can live the pirate’s life in Somalia, me friends! Even Kyle said so!

2. Foster a Culture

So you have your recruits and you’ve booked flights…now what? Crews, clans, gangs and tribes – they all need a name and a coats of arms. You need a theme. When you cruise into a bar, you want chicks to be wondering, ‘Who the hell of these guys?’ Me and my crew dress like Jedi/Mexican pirates. We have props, theme songs and dances. Women love us. They want to join our tribe. They want to belong. They want our dicks. Don’t be the other bunch of boring dudes looking on in befuddled amazement.

The Rock Solid crew (Krauser, Strangelove and the lads) have f-town.

The VOV duo got the van.

Alibaba had his 40 thieves.

What’s your crew’s ‘thing’? A handshake? A funny dance? Do you cruise in suits? Do you wear fetching hats? Are you Vikings? Rockers? Gladiators? Gangsters? Cavemen?

Sounds extreme, I know, but doing this kind of extreme peacocking can make the biggest shitholes on the planet seem fun. And in tourists town with lots of male competition? – You’ll be the ones attracting the most female attention.

This isn’t vagabonding, it’s swagabonding.

 3. Make adventure a ritual

You had a blast on your adventure with the lads? Now make it a tradition. When I announce a Siege, all my mates jump at the  chance. Now each siege feels like a badge of honour amongst our group. They know what to expect on a ‘siege’. We frame sieges as rituals and the most important aspect of our culture.

Even if it’s only two weeks, make it a tradition to go away with your guy friends every year. It will be one the most rewarding things you’ll ever do. Even if you get hitched, the tradition to be so strong that even your other half will understand it.

And remember the golden rule: what goes on tour, stays on tour

How do you roll when you travel?

A needle in a hay stack

I consider myself an expert at finding my way around the planet for peanuts.

In fact, I’m one of the best there is. I’ve never met anyone who can sniff out cheap flights like I can. I regularly find cheaper ways to get about than ANY flight aggregator website. Kayak, Skyscanner, Expedia, Farecast, Ebookers – I’ve defeated them all.

To give you examples: 

• Last year I flew from Malaysia to London for €98 (normally around €300)
• This year I flew return to the Caribbean from Ireland for €320 (€600 on search engines).
• I also flew to Gambia for just €89!
• Return Flights to Lebanon are €450 – found a way to do for less than €200.
• I just landed a flights to Cape Verde for just £90.

What’s my secret?

It’s depends. Let’s say you want the cheapest flight possible for your getaway. You will be in one of three camps:

a) Totally Flexible with time and location

b) Restricted to certain dates and but flexible with location

c) Restricted to certain dates and want to go to a specific location

Here are your strategies…

a) Totally flexible with time and location

The easiest way to find cheap flights. This is definitely my favorite way to travel; you never know where you may end up. Our trip to West Africa was decided by this method…

1. Log on to skyscanner, type in your location, for your destination type ‘Everywhere’. Search flight for ‘whole year’.
2. Bingo – you will see the cheapest flights to everywhere in the world and when they are. You may know about this already, but let’s see if  we can do better.
3. HACK – Change your location to the nearest travel hubs and compare. Do this with a few hubs. For example – I’m in Ireland, home of Ryanair. While Dublin the best hub for flights around Europe, it’s no so good for further afield. So I change location to the UK. Viola – even cheaper flights. Often it only costs around €20 to flight over for the connection anyway. This has saved me hundreds and lands me in far more interesting destinations. For more hubs see bottom of this article.

I imagine this is the case for many of my readers. Work and college commitments mean time is often restricted. But if you’re flexible with location – that’s great! You have plenty of options. Just bare in mind what’s digestible.  Example – if you only have a week, don’t try and visit three countries. Maybe a small island nation is better.

1. Use the same method as a), expect restrict dates. Viola – the cheapest flight for your dates right? Let’s do better…
2. Hack: Don’t restrict dates just yet. Perhaps single it down to just one month. Why? Skyscanner algorithms can’t really search flights ‘to everywhere’ for specific dates, they will only show you results from previous ‘destination specific’ searches by previous customers. For example: if no one has searched for a flight to lets say –  Addis Ababa on the 1st of Jan, you won’t see it in your results for ‘everywhere’. Even though the flight could potentially be dirt cheap. Searching  a month or year gives you a better indication of what’s out there. Take note of the cheap routes and what airlines run them.
3. Now, conduct a search with restricted dates and be destination specific this time.  Certain airlines won’t fly on this day, so you need to directly to the airline that run the route and run parallel searches. Furthermore, often official airline site give you a +3/-3 day comparison which is advantageous.
4. Double Hack: You could be missing some airlines. Check out sites like Attitude Travel to see if there’s even cheaper flight competing.