Traveling Toward Fire

A Premature FI Experiment

Travel Log

  • Preparing For Japan Launch From Houston

    Preparing For Japan Launch From Houston

    In this series of days we are preparing for our Japan launch from Houston after arriving briefly back in the USA from Costa Rica. Travel Log: Day 53 (8/19), Jaco and San Jose Costa Rica Today we packed up all of our stuff and boarded our shuttle to San Jose. For BC and I this

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  • Final Days In Jaco Costa Rica

    Final Days In Jaco Costa Rica

    This set of days surrounds our final days in Jaco Costa Rica. Travel Log: Day 49 (8/15), Jaco Costa Rica Today we wrapped up the first week of homeschool. BC passed his vocab and spelling tests. We also did some fun stuff for astrophysics, learning about star deaths. We went to the pool in the

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  • Homeschool And Haircuts Family Travel Life

    Homeschool And Haircuts Family Travel Life

    In this series of days you’ll see some of the less glamorous realities of a family gap year, where we tackle homeschool and haircuts in our family travel life. Travel Log: Day 45 (8/11), Jaco Costa Rica We had a really good day today. It was the first day of homeschool and we got to

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  • Denver To Guam Marathon Travel, Costa Rican Plumbing

    Denver To Guam Marathon Travel, Costa Rican Plumbing

    In this series of days I’m researching booking options for the upcoming Denver To Guam marathon travel to get my mom, dealing with Costa Rican plumbing, and we prep to start homeschool. Travel Log: Day 41 (8/7), Jaco Costa Rica I spent most of the day doing post-Japan research, but squeezed in a workout while

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  • The Correct Way To Notarize A Document

    The Correct Way To Notarize A Document

    Hint, the correct way to notarize a document is 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,

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  • Sand Turtle And Screen Free Day

    Sand Turtle And Screen Free Day

    In this series of days JC creates her famous sand turtle, and also loses her shit at screen usage and declares a screen free day. Travel Log: Day 34 (7/31), Jaco Costa Rica JC hit another breaking point with screens and wanted a no screen day. I’m always game for those, so we went ahead

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  • El Miro Abandoned Hotel, Mansion, Or Something

    El Miro Abandoned Hotel, Mansion, Or Something

    See day 33 below for our trip to El Miro Abandoned Hotel. Travel Log: Day 31 (7/28), Jaco Costa Rica We didn’t leave the condo complex today, except for JC going for a walk. JC took the kids to the pool a couple of times, and I worked out while they were gone. I was

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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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  • Running In Jaco Costa Rica – Totally Doable

    Running In Jaco Costa Rica – Totally Doable

    See day 29 below for details about running in Jaco Costa Rica. Travel Log: Day 27 (7/24), Jaco Costa Rica We went to the pool this morning and only stayed for about an hour. After that we had lunch and just did stuff around the condo. Around 4:30 we went to the beach to watch

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  • American Dumbass In The Sun

    American Dumbass In The Sun

    Travel Log: Day 26 (7/23), Jaco Costa Rica Sun & Beach Today was our first full day in Jaco. We awoke with a surprise that the sun was shining. Wanting to take advantage of that we quickly ate breakfast and then went to the beach. In my haste to get out there I was on

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