Probably best to start with Part I here. The Plan I’m sure I could write page after page of this trip, but I really wanted to just capture some of the highlights that when brought together gave me this life changing experience. Our drive from Crater Lake to Portland,...
A Little Background What kind of hippy thinks that seeing a solar eclipse is a life changing event? That is exactly what I thought last year. Lady Kit and I were making plans for our anniversary/solar eclipse adventure. I definitely thought it would be a really cool event to...
Some Background This will be the first year I have been actively pursuing Financial Independence (FI). This makes setting goals for this year a bit challenging. I setup Personal Capital (and Mint) back in September so it only has data going back to June. However, Lady Kit and I...
Part I setup a lot of backstory and now I want to focus on how we paid off $79,000 (including $8,398.76 in interest) of student loan debt in one and a half years. We were in a pretty unique situation so it isn’t applicable to everyone, but when you...
In my first post, I showed our starting point and I hope this didn’t make people think we have had an incredibly easy trust-fund style life where we can breeze our way to FIRE. I had pulled out all the typical categories that would show up when tracking net...
