South Africa Expat Family Budget
We really enjoyed our time in South Africa, and I was excited to crunch the numbers to see what it would take to live there long term as a FIRE’d expat. In this post I will break down the cost for an expat family budget based on our actual spending. I will be covering scenarios
South Africa Travel Reflections
South Africa is a location that we nearly scratched from our itinerary. This wasn’t due to a lack of interest, but because of the daunting travel and cost involved to get there. In these reflections I ultimately feel that had we skipped South Africa, there would have been something missing from our year of travel.
Travel From South Africa To Portugal
This week was all about getting from South Africa to Portugal. It was a long series of flights and layovers that totaled 38 hours from leaving our Knysna South Africa condo to entering our Lisbon Portugal condo. Shortly after arriving in Portugal JC and I got sick which made for a few boring days. Travel
Plettenburg Bay And Condo Fatigue
This week wasn’t action packed like prior weeks. No dead bodies, no safaris, and more time in the local Knysna area. We did make a trip to Plettenburg Bay (day 277) which was probably the highlight of the week. Travel Log: Day 276 (3/30), South Africa We shifted our schedule 30 minutes later again this
March International Travel FIRE Budget
The beginning of March was the tail end of our tough stay in Sri Lanka before moving on to South Africa. The majority of spending in our March international travel FIRE budget is comprised of South Africa costs. In the upcoming expat cost of living series post on South Africa, I will extract the South
Robberg Nature Reserve & Buffalo Bay Beach – Knysna South Africa
The highlights of this week were a hike at Robberg Nature Reserve (day 272), a day trip to Buffalo Bay Beach (day 275), and expIoring the waterfront in Knysna South Africa. Around that I focused a lot on language learning, mostly Spanish but also some Portuguese phrases. The week gets off to a morbid beginning
Sri Lanka Expat Family Budget
⚠️ Limited Data: This cost breakdown is based on only two weeks in Sri Lanka, a much shorter stay than our typical destinations. Use these numbers as a rough guide rather than a comprehensive analysis. Sri Lanka turned into a tough stay for us. Given the short time we stayed in Sri Lanka, I debated
Addo Elephant National Park
In this week of travel I get my fitness back on track by joining a gym (day 262), and we made a trip to Addo Elephant National Park (days 263-264). Later in the week I get back into some tech and put Claude Code to the test (days 265-268), I created an app in a
Fighting Through Sickness In South Africa
This week was a little bit miserable for me after getting sick and having it linger for the entire week. We definitely were not able to maximize our first week in South Africa, but we did get some activity in. The Knysna waterfront was our first stop (day 255), followed by the Knysna Heads and
Day Trip To Wilderness South Africa
Having been in Knysna for almost a week now, we are starting to feel our remaining time in South Africa slip by too quickly. Since getting here we’ve been recovering after getting sick thanks to patient zero exposing everyone on our flight here. In the process of getting well, we have lost nearly a week
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
