Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) in Portugal
By far the most interesting thing this week was capturing another electronic voice phenomenon (EVP) here in our Portugal Airbnb (day 299 below). We also took a walking tour of Lisbon on day 301. Most of my time this week was dedicated to health insurance research. This took way more time than I thought as…
Tax Optimization Via Capital Gains Harvesting
After recently establishing a plan to obtain ACA health insurance, we were left with a very tight financial scenario. In the days since, I have learned we could ease that financial situation with tax optimization via capital gains harvesting. The tight budget is self inflicted due to the philosophical stance we are taking that we…
Sickness In Lisbon & Health Insurance Research
This is a week you might want to skip reading. We were all pretty sick at various points during this week so we didn’t do much. Figuring out what we are going to do for health insurance back in CO is what passed for excitement this week. Travel Log: Day 290 (4/13), Portugal JC was…
Affordable Care Act And FIRE
As our return to Colorado approaches, I have started researching what health plans will look like for us. Given we will no longer be traveling internationally, we cannot continue using Cigna Global. We will be buying a plan through the Affordable Care Act marketplace in our state, Connect For Health Colorado. In our FIRE situation…
South Africa Expat Family Budget
We really enjoyed our time in South Africa, and I was excited to crunch the numbers to see what it would take to live there long term as a FIRE’d expat. In this post I will break down the cost for an expat family budget based on our actual spending. I will be covering scenarios…
South Africa Travel Reflections
South Africa is a location that we nearly scratched from our itinerary. This wasn’t due to a lack of interest, but because of the daunting travel and cost involved to get there. In these reflections I ultimately feel that had we skipped South Africa, there would have been something missing from our year of travel.…
Travel From South Africa To Portugal
This week was all about getting from South Africa to Portugal. It was a long series of flights and layovers that totaled 38 hours from leaving our Knysna South Africa condo to entering our Lisbon Portugal condo. Shortly after arriving in Portugal JC and I got sick which made for a few boring days. Travel…
Plettenburg Bay And Condo Fatigue
This week wasn’t action packed like prior weeks. No dead bodies, no safaris, and more time in the local Knysna area. We did make a trip to Plettenburg Bay (day 277) which was probably the highlight of the week. Travel Log: Day 276 (3/30), South Africa We shifted our schedule 30 minutes later again this…
March International Travel FIRE Budget
The beginning of March was the tail end of our tough stay in Sri Lanka before moving on to South Africa. The majority of spending in our March international travel FIRE budget is comprised of South Africa costs. In the upcoming expat cost of living series post on South Africa, I will extract the South…
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
