Traveling Toward Fire

A Premature FI Experiment

gap year

  • We have health insurance, now fuck off…

    We have health insurance, now fuck off…

    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…

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  • Point Of No Return: Crossing The Event Horizon

    Point Of No Return: Crossing The Event Horizon

    Smorgasbord Of Updates Over the past few weeks we have made our way into the thick of putting this plan into action. We have been hustling on a variety of fronts, none of which are noteworthy on their own but may be interesting collectively. Up to this point everything was conceptual; mostly research without a…

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  • Travel Vaccination Magic 8 Ball

    Travel Vaccination Magic 8 Ball

    When you have a list of 27 places that you might travel to, the vaccination plan becomes a project of its own. Reading through CDC recommendations became complicated enough that I had to put together a tracking spreadsheet. It was either that or one of those serial killer tracking bulletin boards with strings and push…

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  • I’ll Show You Mine (Budget)

    I’ll Show You Mine (Budget)

    With tariffs bringing chaos to the market, this is an entertaining time to take a look at our budget for the upcoming premature FI experiment where we will travel internationally for a full year. I find the budgeting aspect of this interesting because we have different moving parts that we don’t normally deal with in…

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