Traveling Toward Fire

A Premature FI Experiment

gap year

  • Whirlwind Out The Front Door – Preparing For Long-Term Travel

    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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  • We have health insurance, now leave us alone…

    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

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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 preparing for gap year travel. 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 Vaccinations Cost Planning

    Travel Vaccinations Cost Planning

    When you have a list of 27 places that you might travel to, the plan for travel vaccinations becomes a project of its own. It is also an important consideration for cost planning. Reading through CDC recommendations became complicated enough that I had to put together a tracking spreadsheet. It was either that or one

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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 year long travel budget for the upcoming premature FIRE 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

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