June International Travel FIRE Budget
June is the final month of our international gap year, and we spent the entire month (actually 28 days) in Barcelona Spain. This international travel FIRE budget breakdown will finalize the full financial details of this year, and reveal how we did overall at maintaining our target 4% withdrawal rate. Up to this month we…
Return to USA
Our final week of gap year was a mixture of trying to soak up our final moments in Barcelona, while doing the necessary things for our return to America. We did a lot of car shopping which even I don’t find interesting and it’s my car. The final day of this week (day 366) details…
Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau
This was not an interesting week, although the beach weirdness did keep us entertained (days 357, 358). JC also popped her top like a real local (day 359), and we did a final tourist activity, visiting Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (day 355). Travel Log: Day 353 (6/15), Spain Pretty standard day…
Turismo Final – Basilica of the Sagrada Familia
With our T-usual cards running out this week, we had to get in our final tourist activities requiring public transportation. This was anchored by a trip to Basilica of the Sagrada Familia (day 347). Also through the week was an unfortunate amount of prep for our return to CO. This includes searching for car options,…
May International Travel FIRE Budget
This month was split between Lisbon (13 days) and Barcelona (18 days), and this is a rare budget month in the year where the figures won’t be extracted and examined from an expat cost of living standpoint. There was better data for Lisbon in the April budget, and there will be better data for Barcelona…
The End Of Homeschool and Sick Car Searches
In this week of travel, I unbelievably get sick again after being sick just six weeks ago in Lisbon (days 334-337). We had our last day of homeschool (day 336). Besides that I spent a lot of time being sick, working on yesalittle.com, and researching cars. Travel Log: Day 332 (5/25), Spain Today is labor…
Barcelona Walking Tour
This week had a diverse set of activity. We finalized our ACA health/dental insurance enrollment and made the initial payments on those (day 325). I worked with Claude Code to enhance and formalize my language training app (days 326-331). On the touristy side of things we took a walking tour of Barcelona (day 327). JC…
Travel From Lisbon To Barcelona
This week we traveled from Lisbon to Barcelona (day 320). Multiple people spoke Spanish to us out of the gate, and we failed on every one of them. We got settled into our new Airbnb, and took in some of the city. Both the city and our place are proving to be incredibly nice. We…
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
