
The Premature FIRE Experiment Worked: We Hit Our FIRE Number
This blog started with the premature FIRE experiment that was our international gap year. At the beginning, we had not hit our FIRE number at home in Colorado. We would have had a risky 4.5% withdrawal rate, having only 22 of the required 25 FU’s. Slow traveling internationally was an adventure…

Finally Home
This was another week of busy house activity. We returned to stay at our house (day 22), sleeping in sleeping bags because we don’t have any furniture in the house. We continuously worked on unpacking, installing, and fixing things through the week. The carpet installation took place later in the week…

Flooring Marathon
FIRE: Day 15 (7/13) The days are starting to feel like they are just blasting by, and I’m not sure what that is. Today felt like it was about six hours long, and maybe it’s just because we’re busy with various things. I continued with intervals of applying mud to my…



