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July Gap Year Budget
July is our first full month of travel and is our first chance to see if the financial aspects of this trip are going according to plan. We projected expenses for the places we are traveling using numbeo, but the accuracy of that in practice is a complete unknown to us. Being in Costa Rica
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The Best Things In Life Are Free
Travel Log: Day 12 (7/9), Costa Rica Today was the undisputed best day so far in Costa Rica, thanks to a completely free activity (aside from a $3 Uber ride). This is exactly the antidote to yesterday’s failures. The place we went to is called “El Salto” or “The Jump”. It’s a small waterfall with
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Rental And Budget Failures
Travel Log: Day 11 (7/8), Costa Rica Failures It was a day of rental and budget 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.
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Whirlwind Out The Front Door – Preparing For Long-Term Travel
With my employment ending, I expected to have ample time to devote to preparing for long-term travel. 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. We even had
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Early Retirement Identity Crisis
Today is my first day without a job since I was in high school and it is making me consider my early retirement identity. I turned in all of my work equipment, said all the final goodbyes, and very anti-climactically walked out of the building on my own. It felt a little bit like a
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We have health insurance, now leave us alone…
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
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
