Traveling Toward Fire

A Premature FI Experiment

Welcome

We are a family of four, taking calculated financial risks to have some fun and see the world. We will be chronicling the successes and failures, both financially and generally.

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From Our Blog Posts

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    FIRE Week One

    At this point with our year of travel over, we have returned to our regular life in CO. In the kickoff post for our year of travel I was speculating about what we would return to in terms of having achieved FIRE or not. Our at-home budget is still developing at…

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    Spain Travel Reflections

    At the beginning of the year, I viewed Spain as the most important location of our year long trip. With my desire to learn Spanish, and it fitting at the end of our itinerary, I envisioned it as a capstone location. It would be a place that is foreign, but that…

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  • June International Travel FIRE Budget

    June is the final month of our international gap year, and we spent the entire month (actually 28 days) in Barcelona Spain. This international travel FIRE budget breakdown will finalize the full financial details of this year, and reveal how we did overall at maintaining our target 4% withdrawal rate. Up…

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