Financially Independent, Retired Early(ish) at 57.
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This morning I woke up and I could see Mt Fuji from my hotel window. I was so excited. We travel to see her tomorrow, but even if the weather turns bad, I’ve seen her with snow. Today was an optional tour, costing around $100 AUD. It was money well spent as far as I […]
Today was a driving day, with over 4 hours between Hoi An and Hue. Hue is like Vietnam’s Rome… the history village. It was the capital of the country for a couple of hundred years from 1809 onwards, with the king’s weekday and weekend palaces here. During the war, however, the Pink Palace, which was […]
Today was a rainy day. There were a couple of optional excursions on offer in the morning, but Robin decided that we’d all be too miserable in the rain, so we had a lazy morning before heading into the regularly scheduled program. We went to a veggie farm and cooking school. It was great! With […]
Look! It’s the Mekong! On the way out of town, we passed by the courthouse and there were many bridal parties getting ready to go in and do the deed. “Ahhh, many stupid men…” said Robin sadly. Homelessness in Vietnam is handled differently. Vans with a doctor and police inside drive around. Old people get […]
What’s top of my mind: I’m so glad I retired! This is the first day back at work after the summer holidays for Victorian teachers. I woke up early in solidarity, but I can’t tell you how glad I am that I’m not having to trudge off to McKinnon to spend all day at work, […]
Last Sunday, Dad was rushing to the back door to get out to the garage when he tripped over Mum’s walker (which was where she always leaves it) and broke his hip. He’s currently in hospital with a matching pair of hips, as he broke the other one a few years ago. He’s like the […]
As this is supposedly, a FIRE blog, even though it’s now a ‘watch how Frogdancer Jones does retirement’ blog, I thought I’d tot up the travel costs for the road trip I made with my friends from Latvia and then when I was on my own. When Liga first contacted me with the news that […]
What’s top of my mind: Not a great deal. I’m ererging from that foggy week between Christmas and New Years, where everything blurs together and it’s like you’re in suspended animation. Not going to lie – I’ve been enjoying it. Where I’m going: Absolutely nowhere. Considering the crazy year of travel I have lined up […]
I have a week at the resort, so I thought I’d spend 3 days lazing around, 3 days racing around to see the mountains and then I’d go home. So naturally, I woke up to pouring rain on the first day of my intended racing around. But you know? I didn’t care. Retirement has given […]
After a cup of coffee and a Sad Brecky, I packed the car and was on my way. It was a late start, as this was only a short hop of 307 km to Barkly Homestead. I would have driven longer, but Eve, my ex-truckie fried from the September trip, kept mentioning it like it […]
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