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Excuse me while I rave about Thailand I had heard good things about traveling in Thailand. It comes highly recommended for first-timers going backpacking because people are helpful, food is phenomenal, and there is so much to see! Even with the heads up, I was still blown away by Thailand. It is definitely one of […]
The Cotopaxi Allpa 28L Travel Pack has been very durable for the last 5 months of traveling through Europe and South East Asia. It passed as a personal item at the airline. However, two cons make me hesitate to recommend it fully.
I hoped that maybe in early retirement I’d have time to read, a wistful goal. So without work, have I been able to read as much as I used to dream?
A recap of my third month in retirement, traveling through Bali, and answering questions about early retirement so far.
Now that I’ve quit my job, stopped paying rent, and jetted off to Southeast Asia, I realized I need to sit down and figure out exactly how much it costs to travel the world. As my investments get to work, I get to relax. Well, as long as I don’t go on a spending spree. […]
By the second month of early retirement, things started to get real! It was time to say doei to Holland, and prepare to go on an adventure through Southeast Asia. All of this kicked off with quitting my job and now I have some serious life-change inertia. Each step since then feels like a domino […]
Have you ever needed a change in your life… but you just have too much stuff? Want to move to another country… but what are you going to do about, you know, everything you own?
Don’t let stuff hold you back from making big moves in your life. Sell it all instead. This guide will show you how.
One thing I didn’t expect after quitting my job was for time to keep rolling along as usual. Shouldn’t taking back eight hours of my day that used to belong to some company make my days feel longer? Unfortunately it doesn’t seem to work that way. I realized today it has been TWO MONTHS since […]
It’s 4pm and I realize I haven’t done anything productive today. Well, that’s not exactly true. I followed up with HR because my previous company seems to have… forgotten? to pay me for the last month of work. I tracked down the status of my tax return. I organized pick-up for one of my larger plants that must be sold before I move.
But I haven’t done anything productive for anyone else
Since I started this blog, I picked a high (for me) FIRE number. The goal was $1.2M by the age of 32.
Instead, I’m retiring 3 years earlier with half my original net worth goal.