Normally I’d be posting my usual fare here, on topics like early retirement and investing. Instead of doing that, I decided to “take a day off” from blogging this Friday. I went hiking instead!
It’s finally summer here in the Pacific Northwest, and the weather is absolutely beautiful right now…
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This post is about our family road trip during the holiday weekend. I haven’t actually posted any of our family adventures in a long time (sorry!), so it’s time I finally amended that!
For all you folks looking for posts about investing, stocks, and all things money … this is not one of those posts. Check-out my posts on investing if that’s what you’re looking for. I may have had several reasonably intelligent thoughts about investing…
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The good life. It’s a phrase that gets tossed around a lot. We all want to have a “good life”, but have you ever really thought about what it takes to live “the good life”?
Is “the good life” about traveling to sun soaked locations in private jets, eating lobster, and sipping drinks by the beach? If your tastes tend toward the simpler, perhaps “the good life” is a simple homestead in Alaska…
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Travel has to be one of life’s best activities. Who doesn’t like to explore new places? Travel allows us to experience the sights, the sounds, and the flavors of another part of the world.
With any luck, it creates new and (hopefully) lasting memories that enrich our lives…. but travel clearly doesn’t enrich our pocketbooks.
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I’m baaacck! Our little off-grid Christmas vacation is over, and we’re now safely back home.
It was great to take a break from the modern world for awhile, but it’s also really nice to be home. A week in rural America without internet access, can get a little dull for an internet addict like myself…
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Remember my post about the Road to FI? For those of you on the road to financial independence, what happens after might seem like an afterthought. Life will be all sunshine and unicorns right?
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At some point in the distant past, someone decided that vacations should look at lot like work. This person was probably a Type-A personality that couldn’t sit still for 5 minutes. As this popular convention goes, vacations should be filled with activities, scheduled timelines, and (hopefully) a little fun to keep ourselves occupied…
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Food in Hawaii is significantly more expensive than you’ll find on the ‘mainland’. If your idea of a vacation is going out to eat at a restaurant every night, your food bill is going to be astronomical. After a couple different trips to Hawaii over the years, I’ve realized that eating-like-a-king on the Islands doesn’t have to cost a fortune…
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Hawaii isn’t normally a place known for its low cost. Generally it’s quite the opposite. Most of the state’s economy revolves around tourism, which usually means high prices. So how does a millionaire who’s hoping to stay a millionaire do Hawaii on the cheap? Let me tell you how…
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