Traveling Toward Fire

A Premature FI Experiment

August 2025

  • Shibuya Crossing Scramble

    Shibuya Crossing Scramble

    To skip to the info on Shibuya Crossing, see day 65 below. Travel Log: Day 63 (8/29), Tokyo Japan This is being written two days after the fact, so I may be missing some details. The school day was shortened today to remove social studies from the regular timeline. We instead wanted to go to…

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  • Costa Rica Reflections

    Costa Rica Reflections

    Before Costa Rica fades too far into the past, I wanted to capture my thoughts on our time there. It was overwhelmingly positive but I came away with things that I both loved and hated about it. There were also other things that I don’t judge as positive or negative, but instead just observe that…

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  • Akihabara Electric Town (aka Akiba)

    Akihabara Electric Town (aka Akiba)

    See travel log day 62 below for into on Akiba. Travel Log: Day 60 (8/26), Tokyo Japan I slept like crap again last night. I got somewhere around 5 hours of total sleep and my worst ever sleep score of 43. Daytime tiredness was also at a new high. We decided that jet lag or…

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  • Jet Lag, The Punishment For International Travel

    Jet Lag, The Punishment For International Travel

    Travel Log: Day 58 (8/24), Tokyo Japan JC and I slept on the futon bed in the living room last night, and it was actually pretty comfortable. It didn’t save me from bad sleep though. We went to bed at 7:30 and then I woke up at 2am and never went back to sleep. Everyone…

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  • Japan Travel Day

    Japan Travel Day

    This duo of travel logs rolls up the hell of a travel day getting to Japan. Travel Log: Day 56 (8/22), Houston Texas, Pacific Ocean We caught our hotel shuttle to the airport at 7am, and did the airport stuff. We went through TSA pre check and the rules were of course different again. It…

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  • Preparing For Japan Launch From Houston

    Preparing For Japan Launch From Houston

    Travel Log: Day 53 (8/19), Jaco and San Jose Costa Rica Today we packed up all of our stuff and boarded our shuttle to San Jose. For BC and I this shuttle ride was free of car sickness. Both AC and JC were a bit sick though. The shuttle driver was doing the classic continuous…

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  • Final Days In Jaco Costa Rica

    Final Days In Jaco Costa Rica

    Travel Log: Day 49 (8/15), Jaco Costa Rica Today we wrapped up the first week of homeschool. BC passed his vocab and spelling tests. We also did some fun stuff for astrophysics, learning about star deaths. We went to the pool in the afternoon and FAC followed. Travel Log: Day 50 (8/16), Jaco Costa Rica…

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  • Homeschool And Haircuts

    Homeschool And Haircuts

    Travel Log: Day 45 (8/11), Jaco Costa Rica We had a really good day today. It was the first day of homeschool and we got to put our plan to the test. We had a few glitches through the day. Examples are that we had some trouble getting assignments to flow to BC in Khan…

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  • International Cell Phone – The Simple And Verified Approach

    International Cell Phone – The Simple And Verified Approach

    A small but critical part of the research for international travel surrounded how to manage our cell phones. Our phone numbers are critical for all sorts of things. The least important of those is staying in contact with family friends. We could find ways to get in contact with them without our phones. The most…

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  • Denver To Guam Marathon, Water Issues, And Homeschool

    Denver To Guam Marathon, Water Issues, And Homeschool

    Travel Log: Day 41 (8/7), Jaco Costa Rica I spent most of the day doing post-Japan research, but squeezed in a workout while the kids and JC were at the pool. I went full circle on this Guam stuff and now want to go to Guam after Japan, but in October. It also will be…

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