This Saturday will mark the two year anniversary of my departure from formal work, I’ll have much more to say on that next week. In the meantime, enjoy some juicy photos.
2017
April: I left my job on 4/13. A week before my last day, I stopped in the Chicago office for one last trip.
May: Mrs. 1500 and I visited the Penny Planters in Florida.
June: The family took a
July: We went to Maine where we caused mischief in Portland.
August: Mrs. 1500 and I went to Scotland where we visited with a Mad Fientist.
September: PopUp Business School in Longmont:
October: San Diego for a conference.
November: I went to the Pacific Northwest where I hiked Olympic National Park with a friend:
December: Las Vegas!
2018
January 2018: Camp FI Southwest.
February 2018: There must not have been a lot going on as this was the best I could come up with.
March 2018: We headed off to Portland where I ran my first (and probably last) half-marathon. Before the race, we drove up the Oregon coast.
April 2018: We headed to New Mexico to the Trinity Site.
May 2018: The Berkshire Hathaway meeting in Omaha is always a blast.
June: Cuba!
July: We spent the 4th of July holiday with the Waffles on Wednesday couple. Since it was a Wednesday:
August: I went to Minnesota to visit with relatives and attend Camp FI Midwest.
September: FinCon! BeerCon?
October: Greece!
November: St. Louis! I went to see Matt Talbott perform a living room show.
December: Florida again!
2019
January: Camp FI Southwest.
February: Girl Scout cookie chaos.
March: For spring break, we stayed put.
We Didn’t Sit Still
I’m surprised by how much we moved around. While I like
We were going to take a big trip in March, but then we called the whole thing off. It was good to spend some time with the girls at home. No moving around to different hotels constantly. No fights in the backseat of the car. No cranky kids from excessive site-seeing.
So yeah, we’ll lay low for a while. We’ll enjoy life at home. Walk and bike. Watch sunsets over the mountains
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“Push Butt” is genius! Did she come up with that? I’ll see that on every crossing button forever now
Her dad has a sophisticated sense of humor…
That’s an awful lot of beer!!! And other goodies!
Looks like. Hell of a 24 months to me!!
I’m tired!
Who says retirement is boring?! You’re certainly keeping busy! It looks like you, the family, and the dinosaurs have had lots of fun.
Yep, not boring at all. I probably need more “boring!”
Wow , 2 years went fast, huh?! Looks like you’ve had a great time. Out of everything though…orange cardamom…that is intriguing and seems like an oxymoron for a porter. A summer ale maybe, but a porter? How was it?
Do you have a favorite of the trips? Not counting the people you visited or met because that would probably be an unfair question, but based on the location and/or activities, anything stand out on top?
I wonder if I squeezed and orange and mixed in some cardamom and strained it into the Black Butte Porter currently taking up space in my fridge….
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Orange Cardamom! That operation was in the Physician on FIRE’s basement, but I don’t remember trying that particular beer. I guess that I need to make another house call.
Favorite! I didn’t include these two, but I liked NYC more than I thought I would (Central Park is spectacular and so is NYC food!) and Vermont was incredibly beautiful. I like the latter so much that I’m going back there this summer…
Nice visual, you guys have been busy!
Enjoy the donuts 🙂
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I gotta say, this recap..man, this recap hit me today. I remember when you posted some of those pictures because that day/month was where we currently were, time-wise! I feel like those were not 1 or 2 years ago. They can’t be. Because I swear I just lived through reading and seeing them them freshly posted maybe half a year ago or less. Time has been flying my friend, and most of what I remember of my time is a bunch of stress and snowballing medical problems from that stress. :/ (Also, happy 2 years!!!! Got any big plans in store for the next 2?)
You’re living it up! That’s great. Your early retirement looks ideal. Enjoy.
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Not related to your latest post but would love to hear your thoughts on this piece John Oliver did on mobile home park ownership and investors and how it relates to your own experience investing there. I’m sure not all investment groups are the same and there’s a good chance he chose his facts carefully for shock value and entertainment purposes so I’m not trying to point a finger or anything, just interested in your reaction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCC8fPQOaxU
Keep up the great work with the blog!
Super cool! It’s posts like this that remind me of my Why. I can’t wait to be as free as you are!
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An amazing amount of travelling and attending FI conferences- along with some dirty-minded pictures. I always imagined my first year or so in FIRE would just be me at home, knitting and shit. Except I can’t knit. Maybe recording a “swearing chef” cooking show. That I would probably show no one.
I am living vicariously through other people’s travels, without having to sit on the plane or in a car for hours on end.
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Wow you guys really travel a lot! It seems like you’ve been constantly on the go for the past two years.
Impressive, but I suspect it’s also tiring!
Here’s to the next two years! 🙂
I love the visuals. Nice timeline on the past few years.