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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    Barcelona Walking Tour

    This week had a diverse set of activity. We finalized our ACA health/dental insurance enrollment and made the initial payments on those (day 325). I worked with Claude Code to enhance and formalize my language training app (days 326-331). On the touristy side of things we took a walking tour of…

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    Travel From Lisbon To Barcelona

    This week we traveled from Lisbon to Barcelona (day 320). Multiple people spoke Spanish to us out of the gate, and we failed on every one of them. We got settled into our new Airbnb, and took in some of the city. Both the city and our place are proving to…

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    Lisbon Portugal Travel Reflections

    Thinking back to what drew us to add Lisbon to our year of travel, it’s a mix of things that were true and others that weren’t. It appeared to offer both a great standard of living and manageable costs; a perfect balance. Stops like Manila and Sri Lanka were definitely cheaper,…

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