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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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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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The Correct Way To Notarize A Document
Hint, Not Here: More on notaries in Day 40 below. Travel Log: Day 38 (8/4), Jaco Costa Rica Today was leg workout day, and it went much better than last week. I think all of my struggles last week were probably due to recovering from my sunburn, which I still have peeling skin from. Also…
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Japan Locked In
Travel Log: Day16 (7/13), Costa Rica The prime objective for the day was to book our Japan lodging. Before doing that we made some modifications to our flight to Japan since we now know our bags are over the 15ish pound limit for a carry-on. We purchased the upgraded 30ish pounds of carry-on for $152,…
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Failures and Volleyball
Travel Log: Day 11 (7/8), Costa Rica Failures It was a day of failures and lessons learned. Lesson #1 – We aren’t professional cleaners This lesson kicked off first thing in the morning with an email from our property manager saying the new tenants thought the kitchen and bathrooms weren’t cleaned sufficiently. We put a…
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Whirlwind Out The Front Door
With my employment ending, I expected to have ample time to leisurely prepare for the start of our international trip. I was entirely wrong about that. We would have been in an hours deficit had I stayed at my job any longer. JC and I were cranking through tasks almost non-stop over the last week.…
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We have health insurance, now fuck off…
As was forecast in in a previous post, we selected the Cigna Global Silver plan. Hopefully we’ll never find out how good, bad, or mediocre our new international health plan is. Wasting thousands of dollars on premiums and never using health insurance is a great outcome. A better outcome would be not buying health insurance…
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Point Of No Return: Crossing The Event Horizon
Smorgasbord Of Updates Over the past few weeks we have made our way into the thick of putting this plan into action. We have been hustling on a variety of fronts, none of which are noteworthy on their own but may be interesting collectively. Up to this point everything was conceptual; mostly research without a…
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Travel Vaccination Magic 8 Ball
When you have a list of 27 places that you might travel to, the vaccination plan becomes a project of its own. Reading through CDC recommendations became complicated enough that I had to put together a tracking spreadsheet. It was either that or one of those serial killer tracking bulletin boards with strings and push…
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I’m Not Homeless, You Are
It’s easy to think that homelessness while not comfortable or enjoyable must at least be simple. That topic has been front and center in my mind as we prepare for our international adventure where we will rent out our house and lack a permanent residence. We’re finding the lack of a permanent residence has several…
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
