Fitness For Prison And Poverty
Travel Log: Day 139 (11/13), Guam I was able to get some really good sleep last night, an 88 on my FitBit. During the day I also took a nap and slept hard for almost two hours. Hopefully that doesn’t jack up my sleep tonight. Since I missed out on seven hours round tripping to…
Costa Rica Expat Family Budget
Costa Rica is a popular expat destination due to a variety of appealing factors. These include easy entry requirements, beautiful surroundings, friendly people and low cost (allegedly). We spent two months in Costa Rica and would highly recommend it to anyone seeking an expat living situation. I have done posts recapping our budget and reflections…
Breathtaking Sticker Shock Of Guam Cost Of Living
Guam has been holding a lot of financial surprises in our short time on the island so far. These aren’t the good sort of surprises, but rather the kind that are giving us Guam cost of living shock. Sticker Shock Groceries As we continue to settle into Guam today, we are spending a lot of…
Osaka Aquarium & Shinsekai
For info on the aquarium and Shinsekai, see day 104 below. Travel Log: Day 103 (10/8), Osaka Japan JC and I were pretty hung over today after our fun night last night. I was trying to think of all the drinks I had last night and it had to be something like 7 or 8…
Akihabara Electric Town (aka Akiba)
See travel log day 62 below for into on Akihabara Electric Town. Travel Log: Day 60 (8/26), Tokyo Japan I slept like crap again last night. I got somewhere around 5 hours of total sleep and my worst ever sleep score of 43. Daytime tiredness was also at a new high. Finding Food We decided…
Japan Travel Day
This duo of travel logs rolls up the hell of a travel day getting to Japan. Travel Log: Day 56 (8/22), Houston Texas, Pacific Ocean We caught our hotel shuttle to the airport at 7am, and did the airport stuff. We went through TSA pre check and the rules were of course different again. It…
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…
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…
Frugal Musts In Costa Rica
Travel Log: Day 17 (7/14), Costa Rica. We are continuing to discover more low or no cost things to do in La Fortuna. One of the benefits of a long stay is that we have time to research and try these various options. If we were on even a week long trip I’m sure we…
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
