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…
Lisbon Portugal Travel Reflections
Thinking back to what drew us to add Lisbon to our year of travel, it’s a mix of things that were true and others that weren’t. It appeared to offer both a great standard of living and manageable costs; a perfect balance. Stops like Manila and Sri Lanka were definitely cheaper, but offered a lower…
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).…
Lisbon Portugal Expat Budget
Our stay in Lisbon Portugal was our first time ever in Europe, and we have generally enjoyed living here for the past five weeks. While this post will focus on an expat budget, it’s easy to see why many expats choose this as their destination for non-financial reasons. Strolling through the winding hilly streets with…
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…
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…
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…
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
