$5 Trip to Machu Picchu by Utilizing Credit Card Bonuses! This is a guest post by Johnny from Financial Roadways. Johnny has been able to go on some awesome vacations with his family by “Travel Hacking”. Travel Hacking is where you utilize credit card reward points to travel the world for free!!! If you’re not […]
FIRE (Financial Independence Retire Early)
August 2019 Expense Report
Expenses Living as a Digital Nomad in Santiago, Chile Welcome to my August 2019 Expense Report. This was my first month living as a digital nomad in Santiago, Chile! There are definitely cheaper places to live the digital nomad lifestyle, but I felt that Santiago was a good value overall and my spending was right […]
Part IV: Finding The Digital Nomad Lifestyle
Part IV of my journey towards FIRE picks up in Mid 2017. If you missed Part III, you can check it out here. This stage of my journey was all about Finding the Digital Nomad Lifestyle. My excitement from moving to Austin had begun to fade. My work schedule was changed from a regular M-F […]
Avoiding Lifestyle Inflation… It’s A Trap!!
Avoiding lifestyle inflation is hands down one of the biggest challenges on your way to achieving FIRE. Lifestyle inflation or lifestyle creep is when your spending increases as your income increases. A common example for most people would be they receive a raise at work and immediately start “upgrading” their life, new house, a new […]
My Journey to FI Part III: Finding FIRE
Welcome to My Journey to FI Part III: Finding FIRE. See below on how I kicked my savings into overdrive, and completely overhauled my life. Thanks for following along on my Journey to FI series. If you missed the last post in the series, you can find Part II here. Part III of my Finding […]
Freedom!!! Initial Thoughts
If you read my Journey to FI series, you’ll know I recently quit my well paying full-time W2 job to try out my Early Retirement Experiment and live the digital nomad lifestyle. Freedom from a W2 job is a topic I plan to revisit frequently, probably every month as I transition to this entirely different […]