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I'd echo what @Jean said to do a few, multi-day treks with your gear before leaving. This might be as simple as walking different routes and distances in your hometown to see how your body feels walking for extended periods with a pack. This is my standard advice to anyone planning on a long-distanc...

Thanks @ego! We certainly spend a lot of time together, and it is easy to take that for granted at times. One of our common practices at meals is to verbalize gratitude. It keeps the conversation moving in a positive manner. Getting regular, daily exposure to how millions of people in developing cou...

May Update: Financial: NW took a hit last month. Down almost 22k. It was the first month we didn't have any income coming in from our old jobs, so a minor mental shift there. Nonetheless, we are doing well and things are going better than I would have hoped for financially 4-6 months ago. Work cont...

I think you can call that a well-deserved deload. I suspect you'll probably have things sorted once you are back in Poland. Maybe in the meantime you'll have to settle for some burpees and dips off of fine, Italian leather sofas.

Hm, I wonder about that last sentence. I'm not sure if it's quite right to think of being able to approach WL9/10 through a side door (to my mind that sort of implies a shortcut? maybe not how you meant it), rather than simply arriving there from a different path. Any path to WL9/10 is going to inv...

Beau Miles on the second-hand life:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z8TfdNWn_E

If these kinds of questions have already been thoroughly discussed, could someone kindly link me to those threads? We had a more narrow discussion about some of the questions and points you raised in regards to the environmental impacts of investments and a runaway stash last fall in the JAFI threa...

Slow travel is also a choice. I get the impression you guys relocate by one plane-distance at a time. Instead consider a bike or a bus-distance. If the new place doesn't work, you simply move back to where you came from. Meandering around the world. Basically emulating a bike trip around the world....

This is fascinating stuff @7w5, and probably not too far off the mark. In order to relax from being the logistician, you need to first learn how to express your preferences/feelings. Rule of thumb is that it is easier to experience pleasure if you are not the logistician/decision-maker in the moment...

Lots of good stuff here to chew on. I'll break my responses in a couple posts. Are you actually slow traveling @WRC? Do you and DW have moments of boredom? This would be a good indicator that you are traveling slow enough. ;) Slow travel is probably a bit relative, but I think we are probably going ...

Welcome to the forum! Sounds like a fascinating backstory. I hope you start a journal. It is a great way to engage with others and continue down the ERE path.

Well done! Looking forward to a future update with photos of art on the walls.

over the last 12 months I have taken 5 MILLION steps. This sounds like the ideal way to celebrate financial independence and your youth. Hopefully you'll be keeping up the same pace in 30 years! You are at least 1.5 million ahead of me based on my rough calculations :D Also, props on the good sleep...

When I was time rich and limited on cash in my early twenties, I found traveling up and down the coast between Vancouver BC and Portland Oregon was quite affordable on Amtrak if I selected certain times/dates/routes. A train ride on a Tuesday afternoon from Seattle to Portland might be 75% cheaper t...

@2b1s - that is a helpful reframe in terms of the magnitude of changes I've experienced in the last few months. In terms of planning and experience, I gravitate towards keeping the itinerary somewhat open-ended to allow for additional flexibility. DW and I found this worked better than over-planning...

Reflections on some of the downsides of travel: I thought I would take a little time to reflect on some of the downsides of travel and nomadism. DW and I are doing exactly what we planned, and are experiencing some stunning natural areas and cities. All of this at a fraction of what we would pay ba...

Travelling is certainly more work than being rooted somewhere with systems in place. I'm looking at this as a period of time to try new things out, I felt like I needed a phase like this before I settle back down again. I'm also experiencing this first hand. I think it is easy to underestimate the ...

What do others experience? The most dramatic one for me was experiencing mega-fires erupt in the northwest US every year, often leaving my city filled with acrid smoke for months. While I knew it was a possibility, it was certainly an unpleasant development and a younger WRC always thought the risk...

Well.... It has been more than a week since @theanimal released his new book. I'm going to take the liberty and create a new thread to promote it. I think it is worth celebrating when someone from the ERE community achieves something of this magnitude. Here are details on how you can find a copy if ...

Three Months of Nomadic FI: We've been on the road for three months now! Vietnam has delivered beyond our expectations for culture, value, and quality of life. We are currently in Nha Trang and really like it here. I'm typing this from a high-rise condo looking out at blue and turquoise water towar...