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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    Thailand Expat Family Budget

    Thailand is my favorite place so far on our international gap year. I have already covered in depth the reasons why it is my favorite place, and I will now turn to the financial side of things. In this Thailand expat family budget, I will show the cost of living full…

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    Thailand Travel Reflections

    Before we went to Thailand I really didn’t know much about it, and most of my travel reflections are starting from a clean state. I of course knew some things; people went there because it is affordable, there are elephants, and it had the bad reputation in my mind for sex…

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    Travel From Sri Lanka To South Africa

    This week was jam packed with travel activity, and unexpected planning. The week started quietly as we ran out the clock on our time in Colombo (days 249 and 250). War in the middle east impacted our travel (day 251), but we adjusted and still managed to travel from Sri Lanka…

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