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by Laura Ingalls
Tue Mar 26, 2024 9:57 am
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?
Replies: 28
Views: 1249

Re: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?

Timed intelligence is crucial though. Slower thinking means less thoughts considered per day, which means less progress (on whatever axis is relevant to the person) per day, which, over time, leads to being "stupider". Conversely, people massively succesful in an area which requires intel...
by Laura Ingalls
Mon Mar 25, 2024 9:24 pm
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?
Replies: 28
Views: 1249

Re: What doesn't kill you might make you dumber?

Traditional individual intelligence testing loads pretty heavily on processing speed, which I suspect “brain fog” mostly is a slowing of processing, My experience testing people with severe cardiac problems is that they take much longer to administer the test to regardless of the individual’s actual...
by Laura Ingalls
Thu Mar 21, 2024 9:16 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Laura Ingalls starts a journal
Replies: 70
Views: 14026

Re: Laura Ingalls starts a journal

Accommodations in the last month 10 days at housesit 10 days at my mom’s 5 days paid hotel 2 point hotel nights 1 hostel night 1 day at my in laws Frita I felt safe everywhere generally way more worried about twisting my ankle on a whole in the sidewalk than any sketchy people. People from everywher...
by Laura Ingalls
Wed Mar 13, 2024 8:40 am
Forum: ERE Community
Topic: ERE Travel Thread
Replies: 72
Views: 28318

Re: ERE Travel Thread

We are thinking about the Camino too same route same timeframe. Not sure we have to figure out how to get across the ocean.
by Laura Ingalls
Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:00 am
Forum: Introduce Yourself
Topic: Hello from a Traveling Pet Sitter!
Replies: 4
Views: 930

Re: Hello from a Traveling Pet Sitter!

I have done one sit and I think unemployable has had a lot of experience.
by Laura Ingalls
Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:44 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Ego's Journal
Replies: 371
Views: 56707

Re: Ego's Journal

I just learned about the Discover and Go program at our local library. Many libraries in California use it to distribute free family passes to local events, museums and some local attractions. In our city they offer tickets to some really good events including the ballet, university sports events a...
by Laura Ingalls
Thu Mar 07, 2024 7:16 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Nomadic-ERE Year 5 - Wanderlust Prevails
Replies: 1172
Views: 273659

Re: Nomadic-ERE Year 5 - Wanderlust Prevails

@zbigi I think you are confusing being able to do something at a high(er) Wheaten level with wanting to do everything at that level all the time. I can grind local wheat into sourdough bread. I know how and have done it in the past. It’s fun and enjoyable to me. Doesn’t mean I am going to bother wit...
by Laura Ingalls
Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:56 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Nomadic-ERE Year 5 - Wanderlust Prevails
Replies: 1172
Views: 273659

Re: Nomadic-ERE Year 5 - Wanderlust Prevails

I find the food thing is always a bit of a dance. More kitchen, more cooking less cooking more meals out. We carry a French press, knife, and dollar store cutting board everywhere. I find I do better at weight maintenance traveling than being more stationary mostly because we stay where the weather ...
by Laura Ingalls
Mon Feb 26, 2024 1:11 pm
Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
Topic: Smaller is better
Replies: 22
Views: 1229

Re: Smaller is better

The known belongs is key. I have been traveling with a 40 liter bag (plus some joint belongs in DH’s larger bag.) I have four pairs of socks. I had a fifth cheap pair I consciously tossed. They are my little sock friends. I know when I leave if I have them all. Two pairs of them are Darn Tough brand...
by Laura Ingalls
Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:44 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Laura Ingalls starts a journal
Replies: 70
Views: 14026

Re: Laura Ingalls starts a journal

I would go back to the Baja in a heartbeat. However, I am not convinced that we would go back so soon. We flew to Cabo from CA. We mostly walked. We did two long distance bus rides on Aguila which was great (Cabo to LaPaz and LaPaz to Loreto.). We also used Uber a couple times in Cabo and LaPaz. In ...
by Laura Ingalls
Thu Feb 22, 2024 12:14 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: The Education of Axel Heyst
Replies: 1976
Views: 341052

Re: The Education of Axel Heyst

I think using FI as a symbolic goal is actually a better way to do it than using it as a marker to indicate your freedom. As I have argued over and over again, a high earning potential, track record of high savings rate, money in the bank and a low expenditure rate or more than enough to set you fre...
by Laura Ingalls
Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:51 am
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Laura Ingalls starts a journal
Replies: 70
Views: 14026

Re: Laura Ingalls starts a journal

The Baja was wonderful. The weather was fantastic though the water temps were getting too cold for me at the end. I love the combo of desert and ocean together. I went to a Spanish-English conversation group in Loreto. It was fun. I later ran into one of the Gringo participants and had a nice conver...
by Laura Ingalls
Mon Feb 19, 2024 6:07 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Laura Ingalls starts a journal
Replies: 70
Views: 14026

Re: Laura Ingalls starts a journal

The last month’s accommodations. 4 days in La Paz Airbnb 14 in Loreto Airbnb#1 1 night in Mulegé hotel 1 night in Mulege Airbnb (rented off platform directly from owner) 2 nights in Loreto hotel (had some Expedia credit to use) 8 days at Loreto Airbnb #2 (also rented directly off the platform) 1 nig...
by Laura Ingalls
Mon Feb 12, 2024 1:04 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: My retirement scoreboard, Part II
Replies: 76
Views: 10934

Re: My retirement scoreboard, Part II

Interesting We are getting ready for an initial swing at housesitting. Watching two French bulldogs and some chickens in the North Bay, CA. The host for this project is single 40’s woman. On the phone interview she seems very chill. We are ending up needing a car rental but the car rental and fuel w...
by Laura Ingalls
Mon Feb 05, 2024 6:19 pm
Forum: Housing and Transportation Questions
Topic: Are you a Nomad or a Homesteader?
Replies: 117
Views: 33676

Re: Are you a Nomad or a Homesteader?

I meet and talked to an interesting woman yesterday. Much of the conversation was very germane to this thread. She lives ~7 months a year in Mulege, Mexico and ~5 months in Southwestern Colorado. In Mexico she lives in a small single family house. In Colorado she has a travel trailer and a part time...
by Laura Ingalls
Thu Feb 01, 2024 11:46 pm
Forum: Health and Food Questions
Topic: You Don't Need Health Insurance
Replies: 37
Views: 2678

Re: You Don't Need Health Insurance

We currently are expanded Medicaid folks, but we are in Mexico currently. It’s sort of a combo of being uninsured and insured all at once. Previous jaunts abroad I have bought medical travel insurance. This trip I haven’t. In part because minor stuff here is cheap, This part of the country is not kn...
by Laura Ingalls
Thu Jan 18, 2024 1:38 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Chenda's sober ramblings.
Replies: 88
Views: 7434

Re: Chenda's sober ramblings.

@smashter as they say on Reddit username checks out. Congratulations on your sobriety. @ego Interesting article. I have varied real life experience with the drug class SSRI. My present regimen seems to have no noticeable side effects. I think it makes the management of negative emotions much easier....
by Laura Ingalls
Tue Jan 16, 2024 12:39 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Laura Ingalls starts a journal
Replies: 70
Views: 14026

Re: Laura Ingalls starts a journal

Adding accommodation info for my record All Airbnb from 12-22/1/16 in LaPaz We are continuing our stay in Mexico. We have toyed with the idea of leaving a couple of times. Then we either check the weather where the rest of our people are or price lodging in Southern California. Then we think we have...
by Laura Ingalls
Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:48 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Chenda's sober ramblings.
Replies: 88
Views: 7434

Re: Chenda's sober ramblings.

I am slowly working on drinking less. I found this an interesting read about this topic. Hopefully it is not behind a paywall.

https://apple.news/A9cU6glDgSdGdt5PVAD-W-g
by Laura Ingalls
Sat Dec 30, 2023 2:38 pm
Forum: ERE Journals
Topic: Donkey Haute's Journal
Replies: 11
Views: 1452

Re: Donkey Haute's Journal

We had been in heavy accumulation phase that abruptly ended with layoffs twice. In 2014, DH and both got laid off within a few weeks of each other. While we have both worked for money since neither one of us has had a full time job since. We entered a different phase just and neither of us have work...