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How to Travel for Free with Home Exchange
- How to Travel for Free with Home Exchange - May 23, 2022
- How To Avoid Investment Scams - May 9, 2022
- Let’s Go Exploring! Please Don’t Go to the Azores Part 2 - April 25, 2022
TV show guest: “Back in my day, we didn’t have video games. The only toys we had were chalk that we used to draw on a sidewalk” Eric (*incredulous*): “You had chalk?” Me (*even more incredulous*): “You had a SIDEWALK?” I never expected to find my country bumpkin doppelganger in Miami, but that’s exactly what happened when I met my Airbnb host several years ago. A flight attendant who grew up in southern Kentucky, Eric had a surprisingly similar childhood to mine, despite being born on the opposite side of the world. We spent many nights, laughing, drinking, and chatting […]
Let’s Go Exploring! Please Don’t Go to the Azores Part 2
- How to Travel for Free with Home Exchange - May 23, 2022
- How To Avoid Investment Scams - May 9, 2022
- Let’s Go Exploring! Please Don’t Go to the Azores Part 2 - April 25, 2022
Continuing where we left off last time, here are the other things about the Azores I desperately don’t want to tell you about but my stupid conscience forces me to. Hikes Miradouro in Portuguese means “view point” and boy are there a ton of picturesque Miradouros in Sao Miguel. Miradouro da Boca do Inferno Of all the hikes we did in Sao Miguel, this one is my favourite. It also has the quintessential Azores view. If you’re driving or taking the taxi, there’s a parking lot right across the street from the “Miradouro da Lagoa do Canario.” Park and simply […]
Let’s Go Exploring! Please Don’t Go to the Azores
- How to Travel for Free with Home Exchange - May 23, 2022
- How To Avoid Investment Scams - May 9, 2022
- Let’s Go Exploring! Please Don’t Go to the Azores Part 2 - April 25, 2022
After 2 years of having our wings clipped, we’re finally freeeeeeeee! Before the pandemic, our passports were our most prized possessions. We never went anywhere without them, constantly worried about losing them, and every now and then took them out of their protective travel cases and flipped through their pages lovingly, admiring all the visa stamps. In the past 2 years, they’ve been sadly gathering dust in a drawer, neglected, and forgotten. I didn’t think they’d ever see the light of day again. In fact, after we bought our plane tickets recently, I nearly tore apart my Toronto rental apartment […]
Wise: A Multi-Currency VISA for Travellers
- Will There Be a Recession in 2022? - May 16, 2022
- Reader Case: Lean FIRE or buy a ski studio? - May 2, 2022
- The Return of Underwater Mortgages - April 18, 2022
Hey, remember travelling? Yeah, I sure do. As the world continues to drop COVID-related restrictions for travellers, tourist operators have reported a surge in bookings. Clearly, the world misses international travel as much as we do, and while it may still take some time for the international tourism sector to recover, I’m more than happy to contribute to that recovery. Accessing Money Abroad Used To Suck When FIRECracker and I took our first trip together to the Caribbean waaaay back in 2006, I distinctly remember having a wallet stuffed full of…wait for it…travellers checks. They were these slips of paper […]
How Does The War in Ukraine Affect Financial Markets?
- Will There Be a Recession in 2022? - May 16, 2022
- Reader Case: Lean FIRE or buy a ski studio? - May 2, 2022
- The Return of Underwater Mortgages - April 18, 2022
It’s been a little over a week since the unprovoked attack by Russia on Ukraine has triggered a war in Europe unseen since World War II. A humanitarian tragedy is unfolding before our eyes as Russia continues to attack civilian areas, the Ukrainian military continues to defend their territory, and over a million Ukrainian refugees have been forced to flee their homes. This article isn’t about the war itself. There are lots and lots of people far more qualified than me writing about the day-to-day news in the conflict. We aren’t a news site, we’re a finance blog, so what […]
