Traveling Toward Fire

A Premature FI Experiment

October 2025

  • Mangilao Thursday Night Market & Halloween At The Mall

    Mangilao Thursday Night Market & Halloween At The Mall

    Travel Log: Day 125 (10/30), Guam After a regular school day, we went for a walk around the premium outlets. This is a small mall that you can walk into that has high end stores like Gucci, Prada, etc. I think we were pretty out of place in our normal cheap attire, and the staff…

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  • Be With The Fishes At Fish Eye Marine Park

    Be With The Fishes At Fish Eye Marine Park

    For information on Fish Eye Marine Park, see day 124 below. Travel Log: Day 122 (10/27), Guam This morning we made a large grocery run. It actually wasn’t all that much stuff despite a running list of things we’ve been adding to over several days since the last run. It was a good half grocery…

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  • Reflections On Our Time In Japan

    Reflections On Our Time In Japan

    Our time in Japan was spent across two different cities, Tokyo and Osaka. During that time I was keeping notes on things I liked, didn’t like, or that I just observed and didn’t judge. In this post I’ll be formalizing those notes to cover the good and the bad that we experienced in Japan. Positives…

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  • Tumon Night Market & Circling The Island

    Tumon Night Market & Circling The Island

    For information on the Tumon night market and driving around the island, see day 121 below. Travel Log: Day 120 (10/25), Guam JC and I went for our first run on Guam, and it was brutal. The heat and humidity were very similar to Costa Rica, but unlike Costa Rica we did not have flat…

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  • Two Lovers Point, AKA Romeo And Juliet

    Two Lovers Point, AKA Romeo And Juliet

    See day 119 below for info on Two Lovers Point. AC pointed out something I didn’t see, which is this is basically another Romeo and Juliet story. Travel Log: Day 117 (10/22), Guam This was the first full day with my mom in Guam. We decided not to do school because it was just too…

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  • The Actual Cost of Expat Life in Costa Rica: A Family of Four’s Budget Revealed

    The Actual Cost of Expat Life in Costa Rica: A Family of Four’s Budget Revealed

    Costa Rica is a popular expat destination due to a variety of appealing factors. These include easy entry requirements, beautiful surroundings, friendly people and low cost (allegedly). We spent two months in Costa Rica and would highly recommend it to anyone seeking an expat living situation. I have done posts recapping our budget and reflections…

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  • Airplane Time Machine

    Airplane Time Machine

    This series of days surrounds the crazy trip I had to take from Guam to Denver to pick up my mom and return back to Guam. It was a whirlwind of confusing day boundaries, across many time zones and the international date line. Travel Log: Day 112 (10/17), Guam After a normal school day, we…

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  • Breathtaking Sticker Shock Of Guam

    Breathtaking Sticker Shock Of Guam

    Travel Log: Day 111 (10/16), Guam We were all up pretty early today, 4:30am for me. Due to that we got school started on time and had a mostly normal school day. We did take a break before the final two subjects to go walk on the beach. It was really nice in terms of…

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  • Travel From Osaka To Guam

    Travel From Osaka To Guam

    For information on travel from Osaka to Guam, see day 110 below. Travel Log: Day 107 (10/12), Osaka Japan JC and I were moving pretty slow today after our date night last night. I should have been hung over given the estimated 7-8 units of alcohol that I had. I pretty much felt fine though.…

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  • Shinsekai Date Night

    Shinsekai Date Night

    Travel Log: Day 105 (10/10), Osaka Japan Today I couldn’t seem to wake up for basically the entire day. We did school as usual, and then I tried to nap a few times. I fell asleep a couple times briefly but didn’t really nap. I’m not sure what was going on with me. We did…

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