Traveling Toward Fire

A Premature FI Experiment

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  • Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau

    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…

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  • Turismo Final – Basilica of the Sagrada Familia

    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,…

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  • May International Travel FIRE Budget

    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…

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  • The End Of Homeschool and Sick Car Searches

    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…

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  • Barcelona Walking Tour

    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…

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  • Travel From Lisbon To Barcelona

    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…

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  • Sightseeing Around Lisbon

    Sightseeing Around Lisbon

    This week we spent some time sightseeing around Lisbon (day 313) in the hopes of not feeling like we missed anything important when we leave. I also spent a ridiculous amount of time researching our car purchase when returning to CO. JC and I had more fun at Time Out Market (days 315 and 316).…

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  • April International Travel FIRE Budget

    April International Travel FIRE Budget

    In April our time was split between Knysna South Africa and Lisbon Portugal, and this budget includes a combo of the expenses from each location. However, the majority of this April international travel FIRE budget breakdown is from Lisbon, having spent 23 days of the month here. In an upcoming expat cost of living series…

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  • Living The Time Out Market Life In Lisbon

    Living The Time Out Market Life In Lisbon

    This week was a lot of fun and mainly because we discovered just how awesome Time Out Market is here in Lisbon. We end up going on two date nights there (days 308 and 309) which were a blast. Earlier in the week we also made a trip to the Lisbon Museum Of Illusions (day…

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  • Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) in Portugal

    Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) in Portugal

    By far the most interesting thing this week was capturing another electronic voice phenomenon (EVP) here in our Portugal Airbnb (day 299 below). We also took a walking tour of Lisbon on day 301. Most of my time this week was dedicated to health insurance research. This took way more time than I thought as…

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