Every guide on MileHorizon goes through the same process before it’s published. This page explains what that process is, in plain terms, so you can judge for yourself how much to trust what you read here.
We start from sources, not memory
A guide begins with research from primary and official sources rather than a writer recalling what they think is true. Depending on the topic, that means the agencies and organisations that actually hold the facts: the TSA for airport and security rules, the U.S. State Department for travel-safety and programs like STEP, transportation authorities such as Caltrans for road conditions, and named industry research for market figures. If a claim can’t be traced to a real source, it doesn’t go in the guide.
Every guide is fact-checked before it goes live
Before anything is published, a person checks the claims in it against their sources. This step is never skipped — not for a flagship guide, not for a routine update. We don’t invent statistics to make a point, and when two credible sources disagree, we say so rather than pick the tidier number. If we can’t verify something, the honest move is to leave it out, and that’s what we do.
We keep guides current
Travel facts expire. A road reopens, a price changes, a seasonal route closes for the winter. A guide that was accurate when it was written can quietly become wrong, so we re-check the time-sensitive ones and correct them when reality moves — updating, for example, a highway’s construction-schedule dates when the transportation authority revises them. An old article left untouched is a common way travel sites mislead without meaning to; we’d rather do the unglamorous work of keeping ours current.
Images are checked too
The photos on a guide are looked at, not just picked by filename. A stock image labelled one thing can show another — signage from the wrong country, a detail that contradicts the text — so we inspect the images we use rather than trusting the caption they came with. It’s a small thing, but it’s the kind of small thing that separates careful from careless.
Corrections
We’re a small, independent editorial operation, not a newswire — but small doesn’t mean careless, and the process above is exactly how we keep it reliable. If you spot an error, tell us at contact@milehorizon.com and we’ll check it and fix it. Getting it right matters more to us than being first.