Featured Well, this is awkward. If I've timed this right, this post will have gone live around 0800ET on 4 December 2024–about the time Shiela and I will have woken up aboard our sailboat located in Annapolis, Maryland. Read more:
planning When The Plan Goes To Hell Everything was going according to plan. We'd go on a small road trip to the west coast, see family in Colombia, spend Christmas in South Florida, then live in Philippines to reduce our costs of living and maximize geoarbitrage before returning to the US to find a new monohull home.
debt-free How Much Money –Exactly– To Never Work Again? How much money do you need to never have to work again? The numbers are smaller than you might imagine, and if you can manage to live a little frugally, you may be quite surprised.
rv life RV Park, or RV Parking Lot? In the summer of 2018, myself, Shiela, Maya and Cyra piled into our pickup truck, hooked up our 26-foot second-hand travel trailer, and drove from SoCal through Nevada, Idaho, and Oregon. The trip spanned 4,885 miles. How did we learn where to stay?
rv life Our shocking introduction to welding in Houston, Texas. I'm sorry, I just couldn't resist making puns about electric arc welding; fortunately, nobody received any actual shocks during this quick Texas experience. Last month we started our drive towards California from South Florida to take care of some remaining items we left in storage after
We're Homeless. We're homeless, but not without places to live. The world is our home, and so long as suitable shelter is available, we'll lay our heads down there before venturing to the next stop. After all, what is a traditional "home" except a place we
planning On Having Your Personal Affairs In Order There is a looming "death wave" of "Baby Boomers" here in the US, and we seem fairly ambivalent about it. Death, dying, and any of the grief and challenges which follow are uncomfortable, but I implore you to make sure you get through them. Here's why:
Remove the Minute Hand on Your Clocks This month, or for as long as I can stand, I'm going to attempt to remove the concept of minutes from my life, and in turn I hypothesize that I will gain hours.
Too Afraid To Ask Why is it considered normal for the average person to work for 8-12 hours daily while having no to little break or vacation to sit with the family? I think that might be the reason why people become more stressed and no one is talking about that.
Destination Idea: Mount Taranaki, New Zealand Aside from its striking presence on the skyline, Mount Taranaki cloaks a fairly unique feature owing to its national park boundaries:
Oh, The Places You'll Go (and the people you'll meet while you're there). The older, leather-skinned skippers, sit nearby planning the sarcasm and timing in their winner's circle speeches while fingering the wind to determine the best starting tactic.
planning What Our Planning Looks Like We had only really intended to sort out things through August, but we ended up planning for much farther than that. We've liberated our mental calendars and will shift that mental effort to actually accomplishing our plans, rather than constantly fibrillating in contingency mode.
inspiration Out Of This World It's easy to get into a rut, even when "living free". The walls of our world build up around our minds and we become mentally isolated from why we started our journeys in the first place. It's insidious, albeit not intentional. Routines have a propensity of doing that.
money The Big Picture of Personal Finance The truth is our journey here started nearly a decade ago, and the detailed planning of this life started five years ago, and it wasn’t even really within the realm of possibility until three years ago. But everything up to now has happened because of thoughtful daily planning.
money The Liberties of a Debt-Free Life By living without debts, you are empowered to make broad life choices, including picking up and moving anywhere, changing jobs, and buying things, without deep financial hesitations.
money Featured How It Got To This Point My wife, two children, and I plan to sail around the world in 2020. We've spent too much time working and not enough time enjoying the rarest commodity of all: time with each other.
Travel Gear The gear you need depends on your "mission". If space is extremely limited, or you will not be in any single place for long, you'll really need to clamp down on what you carry. On the other hand, if space is of little consequence, then you've got a lot more leeway.
language On Learning Esperanto - The "International Language" I've long been fascinated by language, though I lacked the discipline to follow through with learning it. Learning Esperanto is my attempt at learning to communicate with the world.
Future Plans Featured Becoming "Two Plus Crew" We're merging our interests of sharing local secrets with our larger plan to sail around the world. Read more:
