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…
Thailand Expat Family Budget
Thailand is my favorite place so far on our international gap year. I have already covered in depth the reasons why it is my favorite place, and I will now turn to the financial side of things. In this Thailand expat family budget, I will show the cost of living full time in Chiang Mai…
Thailand Travel Reflections
Before we went to Thailand I really didn’t know much about it, and most of my travel reflections are starting from a clean state. I of course knew some things; people went there because it is affordable, there are elephants, and it had the bad reputation in my mind for sex tourism. The only one…
Travel From Sri Lanka To South Africa
This week was jam packed with travel activity, and unexpected planning. The week started quietly as we ran out the clock on our time in Colombo (days 249 and 250). War in the middle east impacted our travel (day 251), but we adjusted and still managed to travel from Sri Lanka to South Africa. Part…
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
