Where am I going? I have no idea
Ryan Graves
This is a general blog about me, Ryan Graves in Seattle Washington, one of numerous Ryan Graves’ in the Seattle Area. Originally from the midwest, I moved to the west coast in the peak of the financial crisis in 2009.
Currently I am working for a mega corporation in decline and trying to stick it out long enough, fly low enough below the radar so as I don’t rock the boat too much, and succeed in retirement abroad by the time I reach my mid 50’s.
This site will document my attempt at early retirement, hopefully coming up in my 50’s, the financial stuff I am doing to get there as well as what I am getting myself instead in
I will also document my various travels as that is a big reason I am looking to do this whole early retirement thing, so I can do a lot more of that. Brain Dumps are general thought that are going through my head, given my current somewhat scrambled state of mind, I have a lot of that, perhaps it would do some good for me to get those down in writing.
Also, I would like to get better with my website development as I am finding Wordpress to be infuriating at this point, particularly when trying to stick with the themes avaialble on the basic tier. Maybe I should upgrade. At some point, maybe I’ll get the hang of it.
Anyhow, here I go
I’ve booked my next trip, a pilgrimage, so to say, to Israel, as the next step of my ‘spiritual reckoning’. Since the time I booked it, it now looks like I may be flying straight into a region wide conflict with Israel and the United States vs Iran and their regional proxies. The airfare I…
A couple weeks ago I booked our next big international getaway, a cruise ship out of Athens to the Greek Isles, Turkey, Croatia, and Montenegro. The cruise itself is a bit over a year away, so we booked it now entierly so we would get it out of the way and perhaps save a few…
We flew from Seattle to Singapore via Seoul. In Seoul our connection was delayed by deicing, as it was in the midst of a snowstorm, something that happens very rarely in Seattle. However, upon getting off our plane, at around 1 am local time, you could still feel the tropical humidity that I was certainly…
Ok, blogging isn’t really that hard, especially when I have a section of my blog dedicated to ‘bran dumps’, which doesn’t even require me having specific topic. Just so happens that I stumbled my blog that I am still paying for even though I haven’t posted in like a year or so. I know, I’m…
It’s been roughly a year since I moved my 401k from an actively managed Betterment account to managing the account on my own, hence it seems like a good time check in on the account, and bring the amounts back in alignment with what they were originally. Given that I am on my fourth job…
Coming back from sabbatical, I feel refreshed. That being said, I did manage to contract Covid, so theres that. However given that. I won’t be traveling again any time soon since, well, I have to pay for this trip, what better time to get my blog focused back on its original intent, Finance, and my…
And here I go..... 