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…
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…
Tax Optimization Via Capital Gains Harvesting
After recently establishing a plan to obtain ACA health insurance, we were left with a very tight financial scenario. In the days since, I have learned we could ease that financial situation with tax optimization via capital gains harvesting. The tight budget is self inflicted due to the philosophical stance we are taking that we…
Affordable Care Act And FIRE
As our return to Colorado approaches, I have started researching what health plans will look like for us. Given we will no longer be traveling internationally, we cannot continue using Cigna Global. We will be buying a plan through the Affordable Care Act marketplace in our state, Connect For Health Colorado. In our FIRE situation…
We have health insurance, now leave us alone…
As was forecast in in a previous post, we selected the Cigna Global Silver plan for our international health insurance on this year of travel. 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…
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
