🏕️ The Campfire

A monthly letter about investing, travel, and life. One email a month, written like we're sitting around the fire — numbers included, marshmallows optional.

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🗞️ From the archive

Issue #18 · June 2026

The Rebalancing Episode

Why selling your winners feels like betraying a friend, our Iceland budget post-mortem (over by 8%, worth every krona), and the kids' first index fund.

Issue #17 · May 2026

Dividends & Dragons

Q1 dividend season recap, how we plan trips around shoulder season, and 40 hours into the new Zelda — a cost-per-joy analysis.

Issue #16 · April 2026

The $850 Plumbing Lesson

Real talk about rental property "passive" income, the emergency fund doing its job, and why we still ordered the fancy ramen in Tokyo.

Issue #15 · March 2026

Coast FIRE & Kids' Cleats

Running our coast FIRE numbers, the true cost of youth soccer (send help), and a board game that accidentally taught compound interest.

What's inside every issue

  • The Numbers — net worth and income update, no sugarcoating.
  • The Miles — where we traveled, what it cost, what we'd do differently.
  • The Fun — games, books, and family shenanigans of the month.
  • One Ember — a single idea worth carrying into next month.

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