#Uncommon Dream » Feed Uncommon Dream » Comments Feed alternate alternate Uncommon Dream * Blog * About * Contact * Subscribe Select Page ____________________ NEW What I Wish I Could Have Said on PBS NewsHour We had the honor of participating in a story on PBS NewsHour with Mr. Money Mustache. Also featured were Mark & Sina Ebersole and Michelle Jackson, all of whom Michael met through his time at the MMM Headquarters. Click to watch our PBS NewsHour segment Over the... Northwest Road Trip Recap: Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, and Back! Last summer, we bought an old RV for $12,000 so we could take a month long road trip to the Pacific Northwest. This summer, we sold that RV for $14,000. I'll share more details about the RV itself next week, but the trip was a big one for us so we wanted to recap that... FinCon 2018 Recap, or How Carl Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Busch Beer I returned home this week from FinCon 2018, the grand finale of my busiest month in recent years. Even though I'm eager to get back to my wonderful everyday family man life, I gave myself permission to take a mental health break for my first day and a half back home.... Midwest Road Trip Recap: Colorado, Missouri, Northern Wisconsin, & the Black Hills Plus, What I Pack in the Car for Hours of Travel with Two Kids I enjoy reading about other people's travel stories. You just can't get the same sense of place reading from a guide book or flipping through the pages of a magazine. Here's a recap of our travels to the... Feeling Stuck? Find Purpose in Service. In this recent article on Get Rich Slowly, J.D. explored the topic of using positive reinforcement to foster smart money habits. He began it with something of a confession: While many of his articles take a few hours to produce, he had drafted the above article... * Follow * Follow * Follow * Follow * Blog * About * Contact * Subscribe * * ____________________ LIFE IS CANVAS Welcome. Michael here. My âU9D¤ï¸U8F âU9D¤ï¸U8F and I achieved financial independence at 33 and early retirement at 36. Now we're raising our 2 kids in Colorado & abroad. Through this site and our related projects, our mission is to encourage others in their pursuit of personal and financial freedom.  Latest Articles What I Wish I Could Have Said on PBS NewsHour What I Wish I Could Have Said on PBS NewsHour What I Wish I Could Have Said on PBS NewsHour by Ellen | Oct 30, 2018 | 18 Comments We had the honor of participating in a story on PBS NewsHour with Mr. Money Mustache. Also featured were Mark & Sina Ebersole and Michelle Jackson, all of whom Michael met through his time at the MMM Headquarters. Click to watch our PBS NewsHour segment Over the... Northwest Road Trip Recap: Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, and Back! Northwest Road Trip Recap: Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, and Back! Northwest Road Trip Recap: Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Washington, and Back! by Ellen | Oct 24, 2018 | 4 Comments Last summer, we bought an old RV for $12,000 so we could take a month long road trip to the Pacific Northwest. This summer, we sold that RV for $14,000. I'll share more details about the RV itself next week, but the trip was a big one for us so we wanted to recap that... FinCon 2018 Recap, or How Carl Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Busch Beer FinCon 2018 Recap, or How Carl Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Busch Beer FinCon 2018 Recap, or How Carl Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Busch Beer by Michael | Oct 8, 2018 | 8 Comments I returned home this week from FinCon 2018, the grand finale of my busiest month in recent years. Even though I'm eager to get back to my wonderful everyday family man life, I gave myself permission to take a mental health break for my first day and a half back home.... More Articles The Uncommon Dream Family About Us Ellen and I met at a language school in Cuernavaca, Mexico in 2004, married in 2007, and had our 2 children in 2014 and 2016. Along the way, we've worked hard to live on less while still honoring our desire to travel and lead fulfilling lives. For us, this has included returning to Mexico for a year, retiring early in 2016, and spending our first two winters with our children living in Cuenca, Ecuador. In January of 2019, we'll set out to slow travel through Central and South America for 15-18 months before returning to northern Colorado in time for our son to start elementary school. The purpose of this site is to share some ideas and resources that we believe could support others looking to chart their own uncommon course through life. We'll also chronicle our slow travel adventures as a family, hoping it may serve as an inspiration and useful reference for others while being a satisfying record for us to reflect on years from now ourselves. Read More ellen portrait ellen portrait michael 2018 michael 2018 leo 2018 leo 2018 marcella 2018 marcella 2018 More From Uncommon Dream Get our Financial Freedom Spreadsheet Subscribe here to be among the first to receive the spreadsheet I developed to chart our course to financial independence. I'm working now to migrate it from Numbers to Excel and Google Sheets so it'll work great for anyone. I'll email it to everyone on this list once it's ready. ____________________ ____________________ (BUTTON) Get Spreadsheet You have successfully subscribed! We'll email you the spreadsheet as soon as it's ready. Thanks! NoCo Mustachians Passing through Northern Colorado? My friends Carl from 1500Days.com, Kevin from MonetaryMusings.com, Yaicha, Kalen, and I run an active financial independence group with a few hundred local members. We meet regularly in Fort Collins, at the MMM HQ in Longmont, and throughout Northern Colorado. Check our calendar to see if you can attend one of our upcoming events. Learn More FI Clubs No Colorado travel plans any time soon? No worries. My friend Sean Merron from the 2 Frugal Dudes podcast and I created FI Clubs to help you find or organize a club of your own. Read Introducing FI Clubs for some backstory, or click the button below to check it out for yourself. It's free to organizers and members alike! Join FI Clubs As Seen On Uncommon Dream on Instagram Load More... Follow on Instagram ABOUT US START HERE LATEST ARTICLES * Follow * Follow * Follow * Follow STAY UPDATED ____________________ (BUTTON) GET UPDATES! Success! 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