Traveling Toward Fire

A Premature FI Experiment

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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

  • man having a mental crisis

    FIRE Existential Crisis

    We are still working on house projects this week, and making good progress. There aren’t any more emergencies to deal with, so it’s all forward progress now. I had a bit of a mental meltdown, a FIRE existential crisis (see day 9). FIRE: Day 8 (7/6) We rented a 9′ UHaul…

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  • burning question mark

    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 flag

    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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