Traveling Toward Fire

A Premature FI Experiment

Welcome

We are a family of four, taking calculated financial risks to have some fun and see the world. We will be chronicling the successes and failures, both financially and generally.

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From Our Blog Posts

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    Affordable Care Act And FIRE

    As our return to Colorado approaches, I have started researching what health plans will look like for us. We will be buying a plan through the Affordable Care Act marketplace, Connect For Health Colorado. In our FIRE situation this is more involved that simply going to the website, entering our info,…

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    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…

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    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…

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