Here's an amazing statistic: I've blogged for over six months on just about every aspect of military financial independence and early retirement. In nearly 80 posts, what's been the most popular topic for over a week?: Surfing. Are you people miserable on deployment or what? Just how cold a winter has it been up ...
You might have joined the military to see the world, but now you can do it all over again at your own pace. Vacation travel is expensive on a fixed schedule for short times at destination resorts. However retirement travel and the "perpetual travel" lifestyle can exploit seasonal prices with longer stays. If ...
So what do you do all day in early retirement? For starters, you can volunteer at the brand-new USS ARIZONA Memorial Visitor's Center. Spouse wangled a hardhat tour of the museums as they get ready for their 7 December opening on the anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack. USS ARIZONA Memorial and Battleship ...
"Your assignment officer wants to send us to... Hawaii?!?" When we arrived here over 20 years ago, Hawaii seemed like a consolation prize for military who couldn't get orders to San Diego. Spouse and I spent our first eight years at duty stations on the East Coast and in Europe. Graduate school in Monterey, CA ...
We're military veterans, not financial advisors. We're trying to share what we've learned and to pay it forward – but you have to make your own decisions.
What worked for us will probably work for you, but unfortunately, we can’t guarantee it. Let us know if something’s not working for you, and we’ll try to figure out a better way... Continue Reading...
Doug Nordman