That is awesome. Thanks for sharing.

“Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. At home I dream that at Naples, at Rome, I can be intoxicated with beauty, and lose my sadness. I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea, and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from. I seek the Vatican, and the palaces. I affect to be intoxicated with sights and suggestions, but I am not intoxicated. My giant goes with me wherever I go.”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance: An Excerpt from Collected Essays, First Series

Now, Emerson hits hard and you def don't have to agree with this statement. But it is always how I feel when I travel. From 2020-2022 we went to the Maldives, Athens, Jamaica, Mexico. Don't get be wrong, its fun, you learn about the world, and you make memories that will last forever.

But he also mentions in a later paragraph about how modern men are scared of duty. I think about that word a lot now. What is my duty, mission or vision? Can it be accomplished by traveling all the time? For me, no. I will be that typical guy that takes one big vacation a year and I'm completely ok with that.

My duties and responsibility are growing by the day and it makes me feel powerful.

Goals:

-Sell my home and buy a way bigger home. Achieve this by getting 2.5x what I paid for it and dumping into a new smaller mortgage. Hopefully going from $380k to $280k -Continue the relentless focus on my income