Traveling Toward Fire

A Premature FI Experiment

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  • September Travel Budget In The Red

    September Travel Budget In The Red

    I always get excited when budget time rolls around, and I was particularly interested in this month. September is the first full month we have spent in Japan, which is our most expensive location (not counting Guam). If I had been allowed to peek ahead to the result of any one month’s budget before the

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  • August Gap Year Budget Review

    August Gap Year Budget Review

    We have concluded another budget month while slow traveling internationally on our family gap year. I’m excited to crunch the numbers and see how our projections are matching reality. It’s the chance to prove or disprove that this approach of slow travel is sustainable over the long haul. Either way it’s useful data. The month

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  • July Gap Year Budget

    July Gap Year Budget

    July is our first full month of travel and is our first chance to see if the financial aspects of this trip are going according to plan. We projected expenses for the places we are traveling using numbeo, but the accuracy of that in practice is a complete unknown to us. Being in Costa Rica

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  • One Big Beautiful Fire Travel Budget – Costa Rica

    One Big Beautiful Fire Travel Budget – Costa Rica

    Travel Log: Day 4 (7/1), Fire Travel Budget 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

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  • FIRE Travel Budget

    FIRE Travel Budget

    With tariffs bringing chaos to the market, this is an entertaining time to take a look at FIRE travel budget for the upcoming premature FIRE experiment where we will travel internationally for a full year. I find the budgeting aspect of this interesting because we have different moving parts that we don’t normally deal with

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