Ryan Graves

  • Beating Inflation

    Beating Inflation

    Back when I was originally considering early retirement in the 2000’s, I though I could pull…

  • Why Portugal

    Why Portugal

    One of the things I need to consider when retiring is where do I want to…

  • Me vs The Machines

    Me vs The Machines

    I currently have funds in several sources. Individually owned stocks and ETF’s make up my brokerage…

  • GameStop

    GameStop

    I had originally written this a part of a post, but then I my writing diverged…

  • Traveling the World via Google Street View

    Traveling the World via Google Street View

    Its been a few months since I’ve gotten out. Before 2020 my wife an I would…

  • Environmental Sustainability and FIRE

    Environmental Sustainability and FIRE

    As a FIRE investor using individual stocks as a part of my portfolio, not every company…

  • Dry Pandemic

    Dry Pandemic

    For the past three years, I have started the year off with a dry January, where…

  • A Place for Coffee

    A Place for Coffee

    One of our favorite activities is watching real-estate reality shows on Hulu, such as ‘Island Life’,…

  • And here I go….

    And here I go….

    Hello, thank you for visiting. As I was setting up this blog, I told my wife…