Happy Holidays everyone! I wish you all a joyful and well deserved holiday season.
We had another adventurous year, circumnavigating the globe and visiting 15 countries. France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Greece, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Switzerland, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, United States (but less than 35 days), Japan, and Taiwan.
Our Instagram shares some great photos of each.
Jr now has 28 unique stamps in his 2 passports. I was surprised when I added it all up this morning.
Nearly as surprising was the ever elusive “productivity.” This post is the 29th of the year, including 3 guest posts. That is about 1 blog post every 2 weeks. The 4 hour workweek is real. We also hosted meetups in NYC, Philly, Minneapolis, and SF, as well as meeting about 20 readers for coffee here and there.GCC readers are some of the nicest people.
We are in Taiwan now for an extended period (we signed a lease!) Winnie has started watercolor classes and flute lessons again, Jr has been spending a few hours a day at playgroup, and I’ve been biking on the regular. I feel so normal.
If you are of the biking persuasion, maybe check out the Go Curry Cracker Cycling Club on Strava for good times. Come March, I’ll be doing a 200 km bike “race.”
To wrap up the year, here are the most popular new posts of 2017:
- I Don’t Want to Live Like I’m Poor Forever
- Lifestyle Design
- Packing for Perpetual Travel
- We Bought a House! (April Fools) (this made some people really angry…)
- Fewer Dividends, Please
And here are 2017’s most popular posts from previous years:
- Never Pay Taxes Again (still works!)
- Why Betterment has Zero of our Dollars
- The Path to 100% Equities
- How We Saved Multi-Millions (serious snark)
- Renters for Life
And here are a few of my favorite 2017 travel photos:
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Have a wonderful and prosperous 2018!
If you happen to swing through Taiwan, let us know.
<3
Jeremy, Winnie, & Julian
According to that Instagram photo, Jr. seems to be enjoying EVAAir business…:-)
Merry Christmas!
Cathay Pacific. The biz class cabin on our HKG to CDG flight was mostly empty so he got his own seat.
Merry Christmas!
added: a weird thing, these flights were $8k retail (!), but of course we were flying with miles.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year you globe trotting vagabonds!
You have bested us by far in the passport stamp department in spite of our particularly good year. The kids picked up 8 new passport stamps (across Europe) and we adults did the same 8 plus a few new ones in the Caribbean (Jamaica and Cayman, plus 2 other countries we had previously visited).
All the best for your 2018! If you keep doing life like you have the past several years I’m sure it’ll continue to be great!
Thanks man, and right back at ya
You’ll probably roam more than us in 2018, I think we are mostly going to stay put. Maybe Vietnam for CNY and then all TBD
I also wrote an “I bought a house post” Three actually (posts on it, not houses) Not an April Fools joke and, yes, it angered some folks. :)
Here’s to a healthy, happy and propserous 2018. Hope our paths cross again in the New Year!
Come back to Taipei :)
Happy holidays! You guys lived it up again this year. Great pictures too. We’ll try to travel more next year, but it’s tough with Mrs. RB40 working. Someday….
Thanks Joe. I have a feeling you’ll be ramping up all of your travel as we ramp ours down. If you make it to Asia, maybe stop in Taipei
Putting down some roots by signing a lease will give you a nice change of pace. A holiday from all that gallivanting around the world living the good life :)
All the best for 2018 and thanks for inspiring us xxxx