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Local Minimart and FAC
Travel Log: Day 14 (7/11), Costa Rica This was a pretty quiet day, and I barely left the house. In the morning all of us except BC worked out. BC doesn’t need that because his daily activity level is through the roof. The Japan search continued and my mind was much more clear on how…
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Alcohol The Taste Enhancer
Travel Log: Day 13 (7/10), Costa Rica Japan Search We are getting to the point that we need to book our first Japan Airbnb. I spent a couple hours today searching for places and it’s turning into a lot of effort like it always does. We are working within a desired range of $2500-$3500 per…
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The Best Things In Life Are Free
Travel Log: Day 12 (7/9), Costa Rica Today was the undisputed best day so far in Costa Rica, thanks to a completely free activity (aside from a $3 Uber ride). This is exactly the antidote to yesterday’s failures. The place we went to is called “El Salto” or “The Jump”. It’s a small waterfall with…
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Failures and Volleyball
Travel Log: Day 11 (7/8), Costa Rica Failures It was a day of failures and lessons learned. Lesson #1 – We aren’t professional cleaners This lesson kicked off first thing in the morning with an email from our property manager saying the new tenants thought the kitchen and bathrooms weren’t cleaned sufficiently. We put a…
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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…
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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…
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Torture Via Motion Sickness
Travel Log: Days 0-3 (6/27-6/30), Costa Rica 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 day as part of our gap…
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Whirlwind Out The Front Door
With my employment ending, I expected to have ample time to leisurely prepare for the start of our international trip. 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.…
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Unemployed Loser Or Bitchin’ Individual Investor?
Today is my first day without a job since I was in high school. 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 jail break because I was sure that a company the…
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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 putting this plan into action. 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…
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
