October was a HUGE month! I turned 33 years old on the 20th, and I also had the best month of my life both in terms of income and investment returns. It's pretty cool to be breaking all time monthly income records considering it's been almost three years since I last worked full time. We … Continue reading Financial Independence Update- October 2021

We were on our cross country road trip throughout almost all of September. We left Virginia shortly after the beginning of the month, planning to take about 3 weeks to make it out to Las Vegas for the Traveler's Conference at the end of the month. Along the way, we visited several national parks and … Continue reading Financial Independence Update- September 2021

We spent almost the entire month of August exploring the other major Hawaiian islands. After Whitney finished her travel PT contract on the Big Island, her mom flew out to meet us on the Big Island to spend a few days there before going with us to Oahu and Maui. After a couple weeks of … Continue reading Financial Independence Update- August 2021

In July we finally felt fully settled in on the Big Island of Hawaii and well acquainted with finding our way around. We did a ton of hiking in July including two of the most difficult hikes on the island. On back to back weekends we hiked to the summits of Mauna Loa (the largest … Continue reading Financial Independence Update- July 2021

We spent all of June in Hawaii, and it was absolutely amazing. Whitney's contract has been just about perfect. She's working outpatient at a 1:1 clinic seeing 5-7 patients per day most days when all is said and done, with great patients and coworkers. She is also only working 24-27 hours per week (three 8-9 … Continue reading Financial Independence Update- June 2021

May was a great month personally and for business, but a terrible month for my investments. As you may have guessed following my crypto asset allocation article recently, having a concentrated allocation in crypto was rough in May with the massive drop across the board in crypto assets. These sorts of sudden drops are par … Continue reading Financial Independence Update- May 2021

At the end of April, we got some good news, and things have been pretty busy since then: Whitney's Hawaii PT license was finally approved! We had nearly given up on her ever actually getting this license since she originally started the process in July of last year. Prior to receiving this license, we had … Continue reading Financial Independence Update- April 2021