Somehow it’s been a year since we bought our first car! The time has flown and it doesn’t feel like it’s been that long, but here we are.
In contrast, I can almost believe it because during that time, I have learned a fair bit about both cars and being a car owner! So let’s dive into what I’ve learned during the last year as a complete car newbie. Continue reading “Lessons Learned After 1 Year Of Owning My First Car”
Don’t freak out – it’s a good thing I promise 🙂 . I recently read The Art Of Spending by Morgan Housel. I enjoyed one of his previous books, The Psychology of Money, but since I’m a finance nerd, I didn’t find any of those ideas groundbreaking.
However, I did find The Art Of Spending very interesting and insightful because it dove into a lot of tangentially related topics that I’ve been contemplating most of my life. It put into clear and concise phrases things I’ve thought for a long time and several things that completely dictate how I live my life. For almost a decade my life goal has been to be content, not happy. Continue reading “My Life Goal Is Contentment, Not Happiness”
Throughout the year, I like to jot down new things I’ve learned, read, watched and experienced to try and remember what each year entailed. I then summarize all of that in my annual goals and accomplishments posts.
The goal of these posts is not just to curate what I’ve been up to, but also to document how I’ve changed from one year to the next and how I’ve grown as a person. I also like to give each year a theme in retrospect.
I wasn’t sure what this year’s theme would be but upon reflection, it became clear 🙂 . I’ve decided that 2025 has been The Year Of Settling Down(ish).
Continue reading “The Year Of Settling Down(ish): 2025 Goals & Accomplishments”
Something weird happened the other day that I want to talk about. As you probably know, from mid-2020 to mid-2025 I was a full-time traveler.
I didn’t have a homebase and moved across the US and the world every month. It was a lovely lifestyle that I really enjoyed because I was able to both settle into a location, and feel like a local with “my” coffee shop where people know me and my local chippy or grocery store.
My Partner and I have been on the road for about 3 months now. We left our new homebase in Upstate NY and headed off to England, Scotland and Iceland and are currently in Colorado.
This is our first time traveling longterm since getting that homebase and I’ve been having some thoughts and feelings that I wanted to work out. So I wrote this post 🙂 . Continue reading “Longterm Travel With A Homebase Feels Worse Than Being A Full-Time Nomad”
So remember when I wrote a post 7 years ago saying I was going to be carfree for life? Well this is a great example of why I usually try to “never say never.”
I never would have imagined that I would want to move close to my Partner’s family and as a result live in a rural town in Upstate NY, which unfortunately has no public transit and requires having a car. So here we are 🙂 . Continue reading “I Bought A Car! What I Learned As A First-Time Car Buyer”
Travel delays are never fun but recently, I was reflecting on why I went from someone who was almost furious when delays happened to now being a chill little cucumber. And I think it all stems from retirement and my new freedom of time and money. So let’s get into it and see why travel delays suck a lot less in retirement.
Continue reading “Travel Delays In Retirement: Surprisingly, Not A Big Deal”
Well, it finally happened. But like a lot of things in life, how it happened was a complete surprise. Of all the reasons I suspected that I would settle down again, such as getting tired of traveling or wanting to create ‘roots’, FOMO was no where on that list🤣. But let me explain. Continue reading “I Got A Homebase! (But Will Still Travel 1/3 Of The Year)”