In early 2018, we both quit our jobs to travel around the US full time on our Gap Year Adventure. During this trip, we’ve stayed with friends and family as well as camped, but the majority of our nights have been spent in hotels. During the first 4 months of our journey, we’ve stayed 92 […]
Gap Year Spending Month 3 – $3,796.40
Three months into traveling on the road full time, we find ourselves leaving the amazing national parks of Utah and heading into the heart of Colorado to visit friends and family. It’s hard to believe we’ve technically been homeless and unemployed for over three months, but we’re still loving our decision to take a Gap […]
Choosing the Perfect Early Retirement “Income”
Let’s imagine you find yourself in the fortunate position of no longer having to work for money (a.k.a. financial independence). If you managed to achieve FI early enough in life, you might have walked away from work well before supplemental income such as social security or a pension kicks in. Depending on how you choose to […]
Gap Year Week 12: Deflategate (When Things Go Wrong)
We recently started the second camping stint of our Gap Year Adventure and ran into a few problems right off the bat. Considering we’ve had very little go wrong almost 3 months into full time travel on the road, I’d consider us to be pretty lucky so far! After laying down to sleep in our tent at […]
Gap Year Spending Month 2 – $3,555.27
We currently find ourselves 2 months into our Gap Year Adventure! The month of March started out in Arizona and ended up in western Texas, so we saw plenty of desert in-between the bigger cities. One of the biggest things we’ve noticed so far is how much time has appeared to slow down (which I […]
The Ultimate Movie Theater Discount Hacking Guide
Updated on 04/12/2018 There are a lot of different ways to save money in life, but it usually boils down to one of three different ways to reduce costs. The first two involve either cutting out the expense completely or replacing it with an alternative. These can be extremely effective, but come with the sometimes difficult decision of […]
Gap Year Week 9: Time Has Slowed to a Crawl
We currently find ourselves in northern New Mexico, about two months into our Gap Year Adventure. Starting from Seattle the first week of February, we’ve now driven over 6,000 miles starting down the west coast, heading east to the heart of Texas, and now making our way back west to see some national parks we […]
The $1,000,000 Road Trip
While we are diligently tracking spending during our Gap Year Adventure, there is one significant item we haven’t touched on yet: Opportunity Cost. If you haven’t heard, my wife and I recently quit our jobs to road trip around the country full time. The amount of money left on the table by this new lifestyle […]
Existing Debt is a Sunk Cost
One of the largest contributors to fishy accounting and sub-optimal financial decision making is debt. This applies to all kinds of debt and whether or not you consider it to be “good debt”. I’m not here to answer the endlessly debated question of whether or not to pay a mortgage off early (spoiler: probably not), […]
Gap Year Spending Month 1 – $3,743.55
Now that we’ve been on the road for a full month, its time to take a look at how much full time travel is costing us. Neither of us have ever been away from home longer than a few weeks at a time, so crossing the one month mark is new territory. And there are […]