I can’t believe we’re barely over a month into 2018! Becky and I have been extremely busy over the past month traveling and preparing for our Gap Year adventure, but the trip has officially begun. After a brief family trip to an all-inclusive resort in Cabo, we hit the road and are currently making our […]
Category: Financial Independence
Let The Gap Year Begin!
As of January 24th, neither of us is employed! While this may seem troublesome to the average person, this has been our plan since the middle of last year when we decided to make a big transition into what we are calling a Gap Year. We’ll be utilizing our accumulated savings on the journey to […]
Gap Year Planning: Preparing for the Final Paycheck
Our big adventure across the country begins in less than a month and there’s nothing that makes it more real than cutting off our main source of income. We’ve been down to a single paycheck ever since Becky left her job last year, but our high savings rate means we didn’t really feel the impact […]
Stop Setting Annual Net Worth Goals!
Goal setting is one of the most powerful tools I’ve found for achieving results in almost every aspect of life. Having a specific objective is helpful when making decisions and tracking progress towards whatever it is you want to achieve in life. Unfortunately, I’ve found many people in the FI community with goals based around […]
Blogging Sabbatical Recap – FinCon, Running 50+ Miles, MoviePass, and More!
This is my first post in almost two months after I took an unplanned, unannounced sabbatical from blogging recently (did anyone notice?). There was no specific reason for the break, but now I’m back! Despite the blog being quiet, our lives have been quite the opposite. In the past two months, we attended FinCon, I […]
Have You Checked Your Tax Withholding Lately?
Can you believe there are less than 3 months left in the year?!? The year seems to be accelerating to a close for us, probably because Becky and I have been so busy getting our house in order to prepare for our upcoming Gap Year! Regardless of what your own plans are for the coming year, […]
Gap Year Planning: Many Mediocre Health Insurance Options
If you haven’t heard, Becky and I are planning to quit our jobs and travel around the country (and maybe beyond) for a year or so starting early next year! We’re currently calling this adventure a “Gap Year” and planning is well under way. In my last post, I covered our plans for the timing […]
Gap Year Planning: Pre-Trip Logistics – Part 1
Just over a month ago, I wrote about how Becky and I were considering a radical change to our current lifestyle. The potential plan includes quitting our jobs, selling most of our possessions, and hitting the road in what we are currently referring to as our “Gap Year”. Fast forward to now and we’re more […]
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of the New FIRE Prowess Gauge
Not too long ago, I stumbled across a new financial metric created by a fellow blogger, The Green Swan. This “FIRE Prowess Gauge” promises to be universal to everyone and balance out any differences between people such such as income level, cost of living, and current net worth. By balancing aspects of earning, saving, and […]
Crazy Thought: What If We Took a Gap Year?
While Becky and I have been saving aggressively for the past few years with financial independence (FI) as a goal, we’re still several years from being able to walk away from work completely. Despite the fact that we haven’t fully achieved FI yet, the amount of savings we have accumulated does give us plenty of different […]