Traveling Toward Fire

A Premature FI Experiment

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  • October International Travel FIRE Budget

    October International Travel FIRE Budget

    October was a chaotic month with two extremely long haul flights (first, second), round-tripping to Denver from Guam twice to pick up and drop off my mom. In all of that planning, traveling, and spending time with my mom, I completely forgot to document the October international travel FIRE budget. The month of October was

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  • Manila Philippines Arrival – Our Experience And Tips

    Manila Philippines Arrival – Our Experience And Tips

    We woke up very early today to get ready for our flight from Guam to Manila. Our alarms were set for 2am, but both JC and I woke up at 1am. Facing the day on three hours of sleep was not ideal. The world is a harsh place when you haven’t slept much, and seeing

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  • Movie Theaters Costs And FIRE – Great If You Hate Money

    Movie Theaters Costs And FIRE – Great If You Hate Money

    We went to a movie today and we were reminded of why we never do that. Movie theater costs are not consistent with FIRE in any way. In today’s world movie theaters are only really great, even in a non-FIRE context, if you hate money and would like to have less of it. Less Of

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  • Costa Rica Expat Family Budget: A Family of Four’s Budget Revealed

    Costa Rica Expat Family Budget: 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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  • Breathtaking Sticker Shock Of Guam Cost Of Living

    Breathtaking Sticker Shock Of Guam Cost Of Living

    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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  • Sodas In Costa Rica: Not Worth The Money

    Sodas In Costa Rica: Not Worth The Money

    This post represents a single day of travel, day 30 (7/27) on our journey. I wanted to rant on sodas in Costa Rica not being worth the money so I turned this into a standalone post. Grocery Run JC and I went to the big grocery store again and came back with another full large

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  • Frugal Musts In Costa Rica

    Frugal Musts In Costa Rica

    Travel Log: Day 17 (7/14), Costa Rica We are continuing to discover more low or no cost things to do in La Fortuna. One of the benefits of a long stay is that we have time to research and try these various options. If we were on even a week long trip I’m sure we

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