The Hunt For Our Next Lodging
Travel Log: Day 10 (7/7), Costa Rica This morning we made a trip to the grocery store and came back with a pretty decent haul for $60. We spent the rest of the day searching for our next location, aside from a nap, duolingo, and an improvised rock throwing game. The urgency to book our
La Fortuna Waterfall – A Torrent of People And Money
Travel Log: Day 9 (7/6), Costa Rica Ride Shares Today we went to the La Fortuna waterfall which is only a couple miles from our Airbnb. Rather than attempting to walk on the roads with no shoulder, we opted for Uber. This was our first experience with Uber in the country. After using it, it’s
First Days Traveling Costa Rica – Torture Via Motion Sickness
Travel Log: Days 0-3 (6/27-6/30), First Days Traveling Costa Rica and motion sickness I plan to keep a short log of the things that happen each day on our year long adventure. Travel logistics got in the way of that, so I’m covering three days at once here. Day 0 (6/27) I don’t count this
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
Early Retirement Identity Crisis
Today is my first day without a job since I was in high school and it is making me consider my early retirement identity. I turned in all of my work equipment, said all the final goodbyes, and very anti-climactically walked out of the building on my own. It felt a little bit like a
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
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
FIRE Travel Budget
With tariffs bringing chaos to the market, this is an entertaining time to take a look at FIRE 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 deal with
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
