When I decided to get serious about learning what it means to be financially independent (and retire early… i.e., FIRE!), I turned to books and podcasts. Podcasts are great because I can listen while taking a walk, doing chores, or getting ready for bed. Below are the podcasts I enjoy the most. These are my […]
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“It’s ludicrous that this place exists and everybody doesn’t want to live here.” – Anthony Bourdain on Colombia The itinerary below is what I took in August of 2018 to visit Jardín, Medellín, Guatape, and Caño Cristales. Like I mentioned in my first Colombia itinerary post, every time I visited Colombia, without fail- I would
Does anyone else think about death daily? I realized only within the last few weeks that I think about death a lot. But this wasn’t always the case. It was around the time my father-in-law fell ill in 2023 that I really started to contemplate death, mortality, and life after death. It started first with
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I found an old post from a 2017 blog about my trip to Panama and Colombia that year and thought it would be worth resurfacing onto this blog. Dusting off this old entry (with a few edits) so I can share where I went. The plan was to start in Panama, then meet my friend
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I’m sitting here at 8am on July 4th trying to figure out what I should write about today. It’s been over a week since I’ve tried to write anything for this blog, so I’m forcing myself to put thoughts down on paper. And so, the topic du jour is “why I started this blog”. Writing
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