Skopje, Macedonia — Through the Eyes of Those Who Lived It A Note From Me I’ve received quite a few messages over the past months asking the same question in different ways: “Where are you really from?” and “What was it like growing up there?” I’ve been meaning to answer that properly for a long…
Author: A Compact Life
We Sold The RV And Bought VTSAX
The End of the Road (For Now) The Dutch Star is gone. After nearly five years, tens of thousands of miles, countless campsites, border crossings, breakdowns, sunsets, snowstorms, national parks, Canadian backroads, glaciers and long conversations over vinyl dinettes, we sold it. The house-on-wheels that carried us across the United States and Canada – our…
The Three Pillars Of Human Condition
On this blog we talk about money, family, travel and lifestyle. On that note, I want to touch on a topic that is rather psychological in nature, relating to mental strength and the way I’ve dealt with some of the circumstances throughout my personal and professional life. We live in an age of shortcuts, one-click…
P2P Lending With Honeycomb
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a joyful and well deserved holiday season with family, friends and loved ones. As we kick off 2025, I wanted to share little something I have been experimenting with. I’ve decided to sink cash in Honeycomb this year because I like the simplicity of the platform and the…
Texas Size 4-Bedroom Townhouse (Houston)
After a year of casual deliberation we have extended our stay in Texas, moving into a new and much larger townhouse in the process. Last year, we made a pit stop in Texas to visit family and friends as we worked our way back to the East Coast to ultimately trade in RV life for…
Becoming A Landlord
Our Path A lot of things have happened since my last post and our travel journey has stretched over three years now. With that, certain decisions had to be made around our condo. The bottom line is that we only had two options, sell it or rent it. We decided to become landlords despite the…
Two Years And Counting
The Beauty Of Travel Roughly seventeen months ago I published the full year on the road post and talked about how much fun we had on the road and how much we have learned exploring our nation. Because we covered 45 out of the lower 48 states the prior year, the second time around we…