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Last year I traveled for six months with just a personal item. This year, I went back to Southeast Asia and improved my kit with the lessons I learned. Like last time, I fit everything in a 28L Cotopaxi Allpa bag and a small backpack. On this trip, I went to Thailand, Sri Lanka, and […]
How did we go from Early Retirement Month 7 in the last post to Month 17? Well… after the months of traveling last year, I went back home and did not have many more travel updates to give. However, I’m traveling again, doing another two months in Southeast Asia, visiting Thailand, Sri Lanka, and the […]
After a wonderful bop around the Southern half of New Zealand, we booked flights to head up to Auckland in the North. After renting a car in a super sketchy, dark parking lot, we made it to the attic-turned-Airbnb where we crashed for the night. We were raring to go on hikes, so we only […]
Thanks to Goodreads, I have a record of everything I read in 2023. I love going back over what books I finished and the notes and highlights that stick out to me.
When saving and strategizing to leave the workforce, it’s crucial to make a plan for what you are retiring to. That’s what I write about— my journey to financial independence and what I am doing now after turning in my notice. But I realized I haven’t shared much about what I’m retiring from. Most of […]
Thirty plus years ago, a woman in England left her hometown to travel the world. On the bus going to the Milford Track, in New Zealand, a young man sat next to her. Originally from Long Island, his job laid him off and gave him a pretty decent severance package, so he was also going […]
It started when I shoved everything I had into a personal-item sized backpack. The most cumbersome items were my shoes. My hiking boots were heavy duty, waterproof, and great for the trails. But when in transit, my feet roasted with them on. If I took them off, I tied them to my backpack where they […]
I couldn’t quite pin-point when it happened. Old clothes not quite getting over hips, new clothes in sizes a few numbers up. When I started traveling? How could that be, I was climbing mountains and walking everywhere! The trousers that used to need a belt to stay up are suddenly a tad too tight. I […]
A hundred years ago, we thought technological advances would mean we would work less. Instead, we are working more than ever. There is not much of a blueprint for early retirement. I want to help demystify what early retirement might look like. So I recently sent out an email to ask for reader questions. Thank you for everybody who submitted theirs! Here are my 17 answers to your burning questions about early retirement.
After a year, is it time to give up this crazy ‘early-retirement’ thing and go back to my old over-air-conditioned office? Here is my tell-all of one year of early retirement.