Our most expensive month was last June, where we spent over $6,000 while moving out of our 3-bedroom house in Fort Collins. This includes 3 months where we were still paying $2,400/month in rent in Fort Collins. In the last 12 months, we’ve spent just under $54,000, which is about $4,500 per month. We’ll ride our non-Yeti-bikes into the ground if it means we can ride whenever we want. We want the time to do what we want to do and not do what others want to pay us to do. And that’s the prioritization we’ve made – the month’s time. Even a cheaper one on super sale is more than we spend on everything in a month. Getting 10% off because it’s a floor model doesn’t really change the math. Like when I shared how we’d be mountain biking all over, able to ride almost whenever and wherever, a co-worker suggested I head over to Boulder, to the Yeti factory and see if I could get a good deal on a bike like his, you know, maybe a floor model? Maybe it will make money someday, but it doesn’t have to. Because that’s what this is, right, a content creation business we hope to monetize? Meh. So many want to talk about YouTube or about hashtags or about Twitter marketing – anything to do with content creation. Exploring like we are, we have different priorities and kitchen equipment. If pushed, we talk about limitations in trash storage, rationing water, cleaning up without a dishwasher. Others share recipes they imagine making when they finally have the time to dedicate to cooking elaborate things. We tell them about sitting alone off a dirt road in Utah, outside of cell coverage, the only noise the wind through the sagebrush. They tell us about their meditation practices, about meditation podcasts, about the Netflix series. It helps them stay sane, juggle job stress, calm their minds. Multiple people have initiated conversations with us about meditation. Others see them as reasons we need advice. We see these things as accomplishments – we set off to accomplish them after all. Those choices got us to where we are today – traveling and exploring without an end date, looking for a home base as a staging spot for future adventures, and prioritizing our time on our own terms. Over the past decade or so, we’ve made some very deliberate choices – sacrificing some things, prioritizing others, omitting a lot.
Simple math behind early retirement series#
This is series four, episode two: One Year of Early Retirement Today, it’s an unsolicited advice smorgasbord – what kind of advice are people giving us? And what advice do your two favorite unshowered dirtbags feel qualified to give you? Money, life, relationships…it’s all on the buffet table. We’re coming up on a year of no-job roadlife. Join us for some entertainment from the road! We’re in search of off-the-beaten-path adventures and new experiences. We’re still exploring the US in a pickup truck with a camper – we named our setup The Bobs. This is Road Tripping in America, a podcast about life on the road.
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