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Coming back from the Galapagos, it seemed that very little could top the sheer epicness of swimming with sharks, lounging on the beach with sea lions, and eating lunch with 150-year-old turtles.
But of course Chautuaqua managed to, once again, quickly blow past my expectations–and the week has barely even started!
The awesome surprises just kept coming, one after another. First, Paula Pant, from week 1 stayed over an extra night (or “crashed our party” as she put it), so we got to meet the one and only creator of our frequently mentioned 1% rule of thumb for real-estate.
That, coupled with meeting MMM and Jesse from YNAB while we greeted Chautaquans who flew from all over the world (even as far as Australia and South Africa) to attend this badass super-villain cult, got this week to start off with a bang:
Vicki, author of “Your Money or Your Life” and the original “Adam and Eve” of the FI movement, also came to check out the Ecuadorian lawn mowers with us, pictured bleating in the background.
And most importantly, let’s not forget the Godfather of FI, JLCollins, without whom, our quest for world domination would never even be possible:
*Cue James Bond theme* Let the EPIC-ness begin!
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Awesome ! This must have been great. I’m so sad I missed !
We’d love to see you next year, Robert!
As I sit at my desk, i can’t help bit be jealous of the time you are going to have. Last week was amazing!
Yeah, MMM and Paula said it was great! We should chat about it at FinCon!
Looks like you met lots of interesting people FireCracker! But it would be nice to get a summary of what actually goes on at chautauqua… I mean what exactly do you do at these things?
From what I gather, either you’re planning world domination with these co-conspirators OR it’s some kind of weird financial orgy. I haven’t decided which yet.
Both. Simultaneously. *grin*
yeah, what Jason said 😀
That guy in the photo with you and Paula – looks kinda shady. Has a hole in his shirt. Bet he’s a blogger or something.
I guess that’s what happens when you have too many muscles. They tend to spasm out of control and rip your shirt 😀
Hah, leave it to FI’ers to make the Galapagos only seem ‘really’ cool instead of AMAZINGLY cool! 😉
Have an awesome week! 🙂
I know right? Only Chautauqua can top the Galapagos.
Great to see Vicki out and about again! Hope she (and you) will have as much fun together as I think you will ….
You are so right. Having a blast!
I am jealous, so how about Chautuaqua Victoria ? I even have a place you can stay, and depending on the # of people, it has a banquet room.
http://www.amethyst-inn.com/
Its closed to the public, but open for booking thru Mrs. Spaceman.
Heck ya, fellow Victorian!!!
Thanks for the offer and the place looks amazing! Unfortunately, I’m not the organizer so I don’t have a say in where we go, but I’ll pass it along!
Looks like you met lots of cool people. The Galapagos sounds amazing !! Another place for my bucket list.
I hope you go there, Steve! It’s exceptional (I’ll be writing about it in an upcoming post)!
It would be great to hear how to do Ecuador and Galapagos on a budget. It’s on my wish-list of places to travel to! Enjoy!
So many heavy hitters there!
Glad you’re all causing trouble together.
I plan to make it someday! It’s a goal of mine, along with creating a blog on lifestyle design and financial independence, so I can join in the super-villainy and assist more people like Millennial Academic Scientist.
It is like I am still living in matrix while you guys took the “red pill” and are hanging out with morpheous and CHAUTAUQUA is the new ZION …. but would that make you NEO hmmmmm “wink wink” (You will make one badass neo) anyways i hope I can join you some day.
Don’t you just want to go to every Chautauqua now? I do, after Chautauqua UK!
Kathy
It’s a regular FI hitlist! Someday hope to join…