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Guest Post on GoCurryCracker: Explore. Dream. Discover.
FIRECracker
Latest posts by FIRECracker (see all)
- Guest Post on GoCurryCracker: Explore. Dream. Discover. - June 18, 2018
- Let’s Go Exploring! Portugal’s Douro Valley and the Weirdest Food Ever - June 15, 2018
- The Importance of Slack - June 4, 2018
Hey y’all! To switch things up, we’re guest posting on GoCurryCracker today, one of our favourite FIRE blogs that inspired us to retire and travel the world. If you haven’t read GoCurryCracker before, the blog is written by Jeremy and Winnie, who retired in 2012 at the ages of 38 and 33 to travel the world! Shortly after they retired, they had a little boy, and now they travel the world as a family, proving that the nomadic life is absolutely possible with kids. If you’re wondering what “GoCurryCracker” means , here’s the funny story behind Jeremy’s quirky blog name. Here’s the […]
Let’s Go Exploring! Portugal’s Douro Valley and the Weirdest Food Ever
FIRECracker
Latest posts by FIRECracker (see all)
- Guest Post on GoCurryCracker: Explore. Dream. Discover. - June 18, 2018
- Let’s Go Exploring! Portugal’s Douro Valley and the Weirdest Food Ever - June 15, 2018
- The Importance of Slack - June 4, 2018
I’m not a big wine drinker. My vices are Sichuan hot-pot, shrooms, and Belgian lambic cherry beer, in that order. In fact, the last time we were in San Francisco for a wedding, I skipped Napa Valley and went to Alcatraz instead. So I wasn’t keen on the idea of visiting the Douro Valley, the oldest demarcated wine region in the world, just a 2 hour train ride from Porto. Despite it being a World Heritage Site, and despite our AirBnb host insisting we have to go, I didn’t feel the urge. It wasn’t until I saw an ad for “Quinta […]
The F*ck-over-ability Index
Wanderer
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- Reader Case: I Own 4 Houses, Can I Retire? - June 22, 2018
- The F*ck-over-ability Index - June 11, 2018
- Case Study: Big Dreams With Big Debt - June 8, 2018
Click here to jump right to the calculator at the bottom. A few years ago on a business trip down to New York I met up with one of my more colourful buddies in a Manhattan bar for drinks. Let’s call him Alex, though for privacy reasons, that’s not his real name. Alex and I were old classmates, and while I had stayed in Canada to work at a tech firm, he had moved to New York and gotten a job at one of the big banks on Wall Street. Evidently he’d been pretty good at it, as he was […]
Let’s Go Exploring! The Magic of Porto, Portugal
FIRECracker
Latest posts by FIRECracker (see all)
- Guest Post on GoCurryCracker: Explore. Dream. Discover. - June 18, 2018
- Let’s Go Exploring! Portugal’s Douro Valley and the Weirdest Food Ever - June 15, 2018
- The Importance of Slack - June 4, 2018
There’s something magical about Porto, Portugal. And I don’t mean it in a ham-fisted “woo woo” kind of way. I mean it in a Harry Potter magical spells kind of way. Literally. Picture this. I’m sitting in a quaint little café beside the serene Douro river, biting into a flaky Pastel de Nata (Portuguese egg tart) with fluffy melt-in-your mouth egg center. As I reach for my decadent cup of foamy cappuccino, I see a black cape out of the corner of my eye, and what I think is a group of wizards turn out to be Portuguese university students […]
Unexpected Income: Are We Un-Retiring?
Wanderer
Latest posts by Wanderer (see all)
- Reader Case: I Own 4 Houses, Can I Retire? - June 22, 2018
- The F*ck-over-ability Index - June 11, 2018
- Case Study: Big Dreams With Big Debt - June 8, 2018
A few days ago, FIRECracker and I emerged from our AirBnb blinking in the sunlight after having been holed up in our rooms writing for 5 days straight. The two of us no doubt must have looked like zombies, stumbling down the sidewalk in our unwashed MadFientist t-shirts. As we sat down at a nearby cafe for a much-needed coffee, FIRECracker turned to me and asked “Hey, did we just un-retire?” It’s a legitimate question. When we started this weird little blog of ours, never in a million years did we think it would turn into anything big, and the […]
