Traveling Toward Fire

A Premature FI Experiment

July 2025

  • Getting A Break From The Rain

    Getting A Break From The Rain

    Travel Log: Day 6 (7/3), Costa Rica Morning We were inside all morning partly due to weather and partly due to a slow start. We didn’t eat breakfast until almost 10, and then lunch rolled around. JC and I did some research on our next location but didn’t decide anything. We also researched excursions. Afternoon…

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  • Hangovers And Workouts

    Hangovers And Workouts

    Travel Log: Day 5 (7/2), Costa Rica Morning JC and I both slept like shit. That’s par for the course after drinking the previous night. I was happy to not wake up with any sort of food poisoning after our roadside fast food. It’s a double bonus because it means we can keep eating there,…

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  • One Big Beautiful Budget Blowout

    One Big Beautiful Budget Blowout

    Travel Log: Day 4 (7/1), Costa Rica Budget Numbers Today it rained almost the entire day. The day started with coffee and a marathon budget session for our June budget. The way we run our budget is that at the end of the month we take the projected expenses and income and then plug in…

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  • Torture Via Motion Sickness

    Torture Via Motion Sickness

    Travel Log: Days 0-3 (6/27-6/30), Costa Rica I plan to keep a short log of the things that happen each day on our year long adventure. Travel logistics got in the way of that, so I’m covering three days at once here. Day 0 (6/27) I don’t count this day as part of our gap…

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  • Whirlwind Out The Front Door

    Whirlwind Out The Front Door

    With my employment ending, I expected to have ample time to leisurely prepare for the start of our international trip. I was entirely wrong about that. We would have been in an hours deficit had I stayed at my job any longer. JC and I were cranking through tasks almost non-stop over the last week.…

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