Travel Guide for Chengdu Settlers: Jetlag Guest Care

Hey — a longer note on Travel Guide for Chengdu Settlers, as if you were moving onto my street next month.

Don't optimize this like a spreadsheet in week one. Get a workable version first. Polish after you've seen your real overtime pattern.

My blunt tip: Buffers beat optimism on holiday China.

Also: Solo trips need slower pacing than couple blogs.

Please don't keep falling into thirty photo stops. I've watched that one burn weekends and goodwill.

When you're here, you'll notice a guest jet-lagged on your sofa. Let that be your reminder this is a living city, not a packing list.

If you only do three things

• Decide a default you can repeat tired
• Write the Chinese names / pins / chats somewhere searchable
• Revisit in thirty days — not every evening

If a plan only works when you're energetic and the sky is perfect, it isn't a plan. It's a mood.

Tourists can afford chaos. Residents need defaults — one primary option, one backup, and a note with the Chinese name.

If it only works when you're energetic and the weather is perfect, it doesn't work.

Write me (or anyone further along) after you've tried one real version. Adjustments are easier with scars than with theory.

— someone a few mistakes ahead