Relaxed financial independence – Seek happiness not money
Health is very important to me. After all, life is a journey that's much better if you feel well. I've always found the subject of nutrition and health interesting. The reason for that is simple. It's one of the few things in the world that is intensely personal. The nutritional basics are fairly rooted and [...]
It arrived in an envelope. The crispest one dollar bill I've ever seen. It was a letter from the Nielsen people, the ones of television ratings fame. They wanted me to fill out a Nielsen survey. I was one of chosen ones. They said, "here's a dollar, a brand new one, just for you, just [...]
I realized I never talked about FIRE(financial independence/retire early) on this blog. I've been talking about goals lately so I figure it'd be good to visit my ultimate goal. I want the option to retire early. The FIRE movement is often painted with a broad brush and seen as a group of people saving money [...]
[This post about my flight home from Hawaii may contain affiliate links at no cost to you] I was up early and feeling like crap as I was dealing with a full blow cold here. That would make for a crappy flight home from Hawaii. At the very least, it hit me near the end [...]
We were up early and eager to head over to Volcanoes National Park. The park and the volcano was the reason we actually came to the Big Island. Originally, the plan was to spend 10 days in Kauai then come to the Big Island to finish our trip. However, the active lava flows that started [...]
We had a few hours to kill before our flight. We didn't want to waste our final day in Maui so we decided to make some pit stops. First, after having a ton of shave ice on Kauai, we couldn't leave without trying the best Maui Shave Ice. Ululani's Shave Ice had a location right [...]
You can call them resolutions or you can call them personal goals but the end result is the same; the hope of improvement in the new year. It's 2019 and another year is in the books. It's trite but right to say how fast time flies. I started the year engaged, content with my boring [...]