I grew up staying fairly close to home. We took a few trips to neighboring states to visit a theme park or to see relatives for a week in the summer. I did get to visit my Grandma in Florida twice, once around age 8 and once around age 13, so I was familiar with the concept of commercial air travel, […]
FinCon 2019 and the Future
This year was the fourth straight year I’ve had the pleasure of attending FinCon. For those of you who don’t know what FinCon is (like my former coworker who asked “WTH is a FinCon??”), it’s a conference for content creators who talk about money. The tagline is “where money and media meet”, if that gives you any […]
Camp FI Midwest 2018 Recap
This last weekend I had the pleasure of attending Camp Fi: Midwest 2018 on the banks of the St. Croix River. This was the 5th Camp Mustache/Camp FI event I’ve been to, and the 7th big meetup if you include the Chautauquas in Ecuador. Each one was special in it’s own way. I find it fun to […]
Travel Recap: Statement Event & Camp Mustache 2018
The month of May has FLOWN by in a rush of excitement and fun. I’m having trouble coming to grips May is almost over and June is almost here! Part of the reason May was such an awesome month was the trips I took at the beginning and end of the month. I looked at my travel schedule […]
Camp FI SE 2018 Recap
What an amazing weekend! I don’t think I’ve seen the other side of midnight in a very long time, and yet this weekend I saw 1 am! Of course, as part of being on vacation I wasn’t waking up at 430 am like normal so it all balanced out. What was I doing this weekend? I was at Camp FI SE in Florida, […]
Takin Care of Business: FinCon 2017 Recap
At last! Gwen writes her recap of FinCon 2017! I know you all were losing sleep all week waiting for it, so without further ado.… my recap! Now, I’m not going to get super into the details this year. It’s not going to be an epic 4500+ word post where I write about each person I met (cough Fritz […]