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Gone for Summer, an important note on comments and random cool stuff that caught my eye

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Beach St. John's

Courtesy of Noelle Hancock

(more from Noelle at the end)

The time to disappear for our summer travels has come. Happy Time! But it will get quiet here around the blog. So…

This important note about the comments:

From now until September I will be unable to answer your investing questions in the comments. So please don’t post them now. If you do, you might miss the answer by the time I get to it come September. In the meantime, you might consider continuing to read the posts and the comments already there. The chances are very good that your question has already been asked and answered. If not, post them come Fall and I’ll do my best to help.

Other comments are welcome as always!

Our Summer

It has been busy like hell these past few weeks.

June 30th we are moving and so have been going thru the packing and purging leading up to when the truck arrives to haul away our, hopefully fewer, things.

Regular readers will remember we sold our house a couple of years ago and moved into our current downtown loft apartment. It is in a 200 year old refurbished mill building. Brick walls, high ceilings, wood floors, exposed heating ducts. A very casual, industrial vibe we’ve enjoyed greatly. It even has a bonus room in a former staircase that fits my office needs perfectly.

But one of the reasons we love now being renters is, it is far easier to indulge our restless spirits. It’s time for a change and change is easy when all you have to do is let your lease run out, pack and hire movers. Plus the purging inherent in moving keeps the clutter from trapping you.

We are going to a building only a couple of blocks away, so we get to keep the same neighborhood. We’ll still be walking distance to the cafes, restaurants and theater we’ve come to enjoy but in a more upscale, elegant apartment. We’ll be on the 8th floor facing West with a river view. We are told the sunsets are spectacular.

This is actually the building we first had our eye on two years ago. At the time we needed more space but now the second bedroom, we kept mostly for our daughter’s visits, can become the office.

She, in turn, is headed for South East Asia for two years with the Peace Corps. She’ll be teaching English. Since the Peace Corps strongly discourages volunteers from leaving their host countries to travel home, we will be traveling there instead. New adventures!

To make matters more interesting, the apartment we want isn’t actually available until August 24th. Which, since we travel for the summers, works out rather well. Specifically, like this:

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Jake indulging in one of his favorite hobbies

  • June 29th I take Jake the Wonder Dog to stay with his pal Smitty in the New Hampshire countryside. Jake doesn’t like moving days or hotels.
  • June 30th the movers load up our stuff and take it to storage.
  • Meanwhile, our daughter gives away the last of her stuff and leaves her apartment in Massachusetts.
  • We meet up here:

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Wentworth by the Sea

This is one of the grand old hotels scattered around New England that were built at the turn of the last century. They fell into disrepair but now most have been beautifully restored and refurbished. Not cheap, but we had been meaning to treat ourselves one day anyway. And we have almost two months of rent to play with!

  • July 3rd we put our daughter on the plane to LA and exotic points beyond for the next phase of her life’s adventure.
  • That same day we retrieve Jake and head west to Wisconsin and Shamba.
  • We’ll spend the rest of July at Shamba on Lake Michigan as we did last summer.
  • From August 1st to the 24th we’ll…
  • …well we haven’t figured that part out just yet. 🙂
  • August 24th we move into the new place, where we should be fully settled by October when…
  • …I head back to Ecuador for the Chautauquas and the side trip to the Galapagos Islands.

While at Shamba I hope to finish the final rewrites and polishing on the book. The manuscript is currently out to readers and fact checkers, and with their input in hand I should finally have it done. Of course, there are many more steps between finished manuscript and published book. But it is getting there and should be out in the next few months. I’ll put up a post when it is.

So have a wonderful summer and to get started, here for your amusement and edification are some random cool things that have caught my eye of late:

Socially Responsible Investing This is a question that regularly comes up in the comments here and the link is my pal Darrow’s interesting take.

barvarian castle

“I want to go there”

Lonely-House-31

Lonely Houses

cabins abandoned-waiting-for-owners-to-come-5

Abandoned cabins

Body switch magic

50-shades-of-grey-dave-barry

Dave Barry reviews Fifty Shades of Grey: Best book report ever!

Bridge between walls

Mysterious Bridges

Understanding the economy video, by Ray Dalio

Pushing the lions off their kill Awesome demonstration of what courage can do. It’s amazing the lions don’t think, “Oh look. More meat. And it’s coming right to us. Gotta love the service on this savanna!”

How many mutual funds routinely rout the market?

50 reasons we are living thru the greatest period in history

Milky-Way what we can see

Where are our interstellar neighbors?

AI — If you’re going to be interested in this, you already know what “AI” is.

A History of Time

Finally…

“If you’re constantly thinking you need a vacation, maybe what you really need is a new life”

Why I gave up a $95,000 job to move to an island and scoop ice cream

Hand Stand

Courtesy of Noelle Hancock

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Comments

  1. G-dog says

    June 28, 2015 at 10:29 am

    Aw, love Jake! have a great summer – it sounds fabulous.

    Reply
    • jlcollinsnh says

      June 28, 2015 at 2:06 pm

      Everybody loves Jake! 🙂

      Reply
  2. beth says

    June 28, 2015 at 11:08 am

    I had better hurry and get my financial act together. You are doing more travelling this summer than I have done in my entire life and I need to get rid of debt before I can even think about doing any travelling.

    Have an amazing summer and post lots of pictures when you get back because my budget means I am limited to travelling vicariously through others.

    Reply
    • jlcollinsnh says

      June 28, 2015 at 2:10 pm

      And this guy has done more traveling in the last few months than I in the last few years: https://jlcollinsnh.com/2015/06/22/around-the-world-with-an-aussie-biker/ 🙂

      I’m afraid I don’t take pictures. See point #”Leave your camera at home” here: https://jlcollinsnh.com/2012/01/27/travels-with-esperando-un-camino/ 🙂 🙂

      Reply
  3. Zita Santi says

    June 28, 2015 at 12:43 pm

    Dear Jim, I’ve been meaning to write a comment ever since I subscribed to your blog, just to say, how much I love reading your articles. They are so interesting and even though I am ‘dumb’ as far as investing is concerned, I do still enjoy them.
    Bravo like they would say here in Italy!!!
    Wishing you and Jane, “Happy Holidays”

    P.S. Hope you have a guest room in your new place, cause I intend visiting next year !!!!

    Reply
    • jlcollinsnh says

      June 28, 2015 at 2:12 pm

      Zita!

      Wonderful to hear from you and here on the blog, no less. I didn’t know you were a reader.

      We’ll always have a place for you!

      Ciao, baby!

      Reply
  4. Darrow Kirkpatrick says

    June 28, 2015 at 2:50 pm

    Thanks for another fascinating, diverse post Jim. Have a great summer, and fall. Enjoy your new place! (Gee, it is great to be a renter.) And, thanks for the link.

    Best,
    Darrow

    Reply
    • jlcollinsnh says

      June 28, 2015 at 7:47 pm

      My pleasure, Darrow…

      It is a great review of Ethical Investing.

      Yep, renting has its plusses! (As you know) 🙂

      Reply
  5. Done by Forty says

    June 28, 2015 at 5:00 pm

    So much to love in the links here. I especially liked the 30 minute econ video, the 50 reasons to feel lucky, and the last story about the woman picking up sticks at 31 and moving to an island.

    Look before you leap is fine and all…but just be sure to actually leap. Nothing sadder than living your whole life on the ledge.

    Reply
    • jlcollinsnh says

      June 28, 2015 at 7:49 pm

      Those were three of my favorites, too.

      I also can’t get over those guys pushing the lions off their kill. Wonder who the first fellow was who thought that would be a good idea!

      “…just be sure to actually leap.” Well said!

      Reply
  6. Jaketucson says

    June 29, 2015 at 9:15 am

    Happy travels! Love these types of posts. One of our regular babysitters just graduated and is also off to the Peace Corps in Cambodia! Maybe she and your daughter will meet at some point.

    Reply
  7. Paula R. says

    June 29, 2015 at 9:49 am

    Have a great vacay! it sounds like you’ll have a hell of a time! For now, I will live these experiences through you until my time comes! haha 🙂
    Thanks for the links!
    Paula

    Reply
  8. Joe says

    June 29, 2015 at 10:24 am

    Have a great trip! If your travels take you to the Pacific Northwest, please let me know. I’d love to meet up!

    Reply
    • jlcollinsnh says

      July 8, 2015 at 1:24 pm

      Likewise!

      And should you ever find yourself in NH….

      Reply
  9. Even Steven says

    June 29, 2015 at 11:39 am

    Enjoy visiting “God’s Country” in Wisconsin as I mention to anyone taking a trip to the Dairyland and for that fact enjoy the summer.

    Reply
    • jlcollinsnh says

      July 8, 2015 at 1:25 pm

      It is indeed and I’ve been privileged to travel here many times over the years!

      Reply
  10. Stockbeard says

    July 1, 2015 at 1:59 pm

    Those cabin/lonely house pictures are awesome.

    I’m totally with you on the renting opinion: To me, I love the freedom of easily switching to the next place pretty much whenever I feel like it (give or take 12 months). My wife disagrees with that though. She’s worried that we could reach old age without owning a place that we can call our own, and that frightens her.

    Reply
    • jlcollinsnh says

      July 1, 2015 at 5:14 pm

      Sometimes I think, when I’m old (er) and my traveling days are done, I might again buy a house.

      But then I think, why would I want the hassle of maintenance when I’m old (er)?! 😉

      Reply
  11. Jonathan says

    July 1, 2015 at 10:26 pm

    Good luck and happy traveling! I just found your blog from Mr. Money Mustache, and now I find we’re practically neighbors- I’m across the river at the city limits. A lovely place.

    Reply
    • jlcollinsnh says

      July 8, 2015 at 1:22 pm

      Thanks Jonathan!

      West Side?

      Reply
      • Jonathan says

        July 8, 2015 at 2:07 pm

        Indeed. Off of Boynton. Manchester has a great amount of “normal” sized homes, without being too sketchy.

        Reply
  12. FI Monkey says

    July 2, 2015 at 7:34 pm

    Jim,

    All of us should aspire to be more like you. The kind of traveling you’re doing is incredible. I keep telling myself I should just set a month aside to go take my kids somewhere, but I’m going to wait for my youngest to be a little more self sufficient before we attempt such insanity.

    Enjoy your trip. Already looking forward to your return.

    FM

    Reply
  13. jlcollinsnh says

    July 8, 2015 at 1:21 pm

    Thanks FI-M…

    But if travel is your thing, guys like this are who you want to emulate: https://jlcollinsnh.com/2015/06/22/around-the-world-with-an-aussie-biker/

    I’ve barely moved off the couch in comparison. 🙂 🙂

    Reply
  14. Kyle says

    July 14, 2015 at 10:23 pm

    Didn’t know you were traveling to Wisconsin, We should meet up. I know your schedule is probably packed but I can entice you with plenty of home brews. I’ll be in down town Milwaukee July 18th serving my home brew at the Firkin Beer Festival.

    By the way, I know its been awhile but my offer remains if you would like some help on your site.
    I could even take a copy of the live site offline and show you what could be done.

    Reply
  15. The Bob's says

    July 24, 2015 at 10:50 pm

    Have a great time this summer with all your adventures. See you in Ecuador this Oct. over that cup of coffee. 😉 Enjoyed the blog post. Take care Jim and Fam.

    Reply
    • jlcollinsnh says

      July 27, 2015 at 8:43 pm

      Hey Bobs…

      Thanks! We’re having a great time and the Chautauqua in Ecuador will be here next time I blink. 🙂

      Looking forward to seeing you there!

      Reply
  16. InsiderAccountant says

    September 25, 2015 at 10:30 pm

    I love the picture of Schloss Neuschwanstein in Germany. We went there in the summer but it would be awesome to go back one day in the winter as well.

    Reply
  17. Matt says

    October 13, 2015 at 11:06 pm

    Just want to say thanks for such a wonderful resource! I’ve been captivated by your blog since I discovered it yesterday and as someone who feels like he has the basics of responsible saving down, your next-level financial independence advice and techniques are much appreciated.

    Incidentally, I recently returned from serving in the Peace Corps in Zambia and although it was a tough decision to voluntarily forego 27 months of lost earning potential (and compounded interest!), I wouldn’t have traded the experience for the world. Best wishes to your daughter on her new journey.

    Reply
    • jlcollinsnh says

      October 14, 2015 at 12:14 am

      Thanks Matt….

      I’m glad you found your way here and your kind words are appreciated.

      She has 23 months to go. So far she’s finding it a challenging, difficult, frustrating and wonderful experience. 🙂

      Reply
  18. Yankee21 says

    April 21, 2019 at 11:58 am

    Happy Easter Mr. Collins. First time, short time. Hope your days are finding you like Noelle’s, minus dinner in the shower. Best wishes to you and yours.

    Reply
    • jlcollinsnh says

      April 21, 2019 at 1:09 pm

      Interesting post to choose for your Easter greeting Y21. 🙂

      The same to you and yours!

      Reply
      • Yankee21 says

        April 21, 2019 at 10:46 pm

        Haha, Thank you Good Sir. Figured to save the pleasantries. And please don’t take that wrong. I am deeply grateful for the light emitted from the sun on this path we have begun to trek simply.
        I do hope Mr. Bogle is posthumously awarded, his work is rightly deserving Sainthood and much more…
        Rather than choosing a more popular post for my greeting, thought I would bring you back to one of the many gems you have throughout your blog, of which one day, when my girls can understand responsibly the essence of Noelle’s article, I look forward to talking with them about, along with of course, “how you failed your daughter” and much more. Yes, The big guy not only made one mistake but two! My son was planned, he knew I would need some help I guess. Thanks for everything and hope the ice fishing is going well. Best Wishes Good Sir and will this sell on VTSAX start already! or not, no matter, will be sleeping in the Mint soon. Warm Regards, Y21, I like it.

        Reply

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      • YNAB: Best Place to Work Ever?
      • Case Study #12: Escaping a soul-crushing job before you're 70
    • ► January (3)
      • Case Study #11: John, a small business owner in transition
      • Trish and Stan take an Intrepid Sailing Voyage
      • 2014 Annual Louis Rukeyser Memorial Market Prediction Contest results, and my forecast for 2015
  • ► 2014 (29)
    • ► December (2)
      • Diamonds and Happy Holidays!
      • Micro-Lending with Kiva
    • ► November (3)
      • Chautauqua February 7-14, 2015: Escape from Winter
      • Stocks -- Part XXVII: Why I Don’t Like Dollar Cost Averaging
      • Jack Bogle and the Presidential Medal of Freedom
    • ► October (3)
      • Tuft & Needle: A better path to sleep
      • Nightmare on Wall Street: Will the Blood Bath Continue?
      • Help Wanted
    • ► September (1)
      • Chautauqua 2014: Lightning strikes again!
    • ► August (2)
      • Stocks -- Part XXVI: Pulling the 4%
      • Stocks -- Part XXV: HSAs, more than just a way to pay your medical bills.
    • ► July (3)
      • Stocks -- Part XXIV: RMDs, the ugly surprise at the end of the tax-deferred rainbow
      • Summer travels, writing, reading and other amusements
      • Moto X, my new Republic Wireless Phone
    • ► June (1)
      • Stocks -- Part XXIII: Selecting your asset allocation
    • ► May (1)
      • Stocks -- Part XXII: Stepping away from REITs
    • ► April (3)
      • Q&A III: Vamos
      • Q&A II: Salamat
      • Q&A I: Gaijin Shogun
    • ► March (2)
      • Top 10 posts
      • Cafe No Se
    • ► February (4)
      • Chautauqua 2014 preview, closing up for travel and other random cool things that caught my eye of late.
      • Case Study #10: Should Josiah buy his parents a house?
      • Case Study #9: Lars -- maximizing some good fortune and considering "dollar cost averaging"
      • Case Study #8: Ron's mother - she's doin' all right!
    • ► January (4)
      • roundup: Some random cool things
      • Stocks — Part XXI: Investing with Vanguard for Europeans
      • Case Study #7: What it looks like when everything financial goes wrong
      • 1st Annual Louis Rukeyser Memorial Market Prediction Contest 2013 results, and my forecast for 2014
  • ► 2013 (41)
    • ► December (4)
      • Closing up for the Holidays, see you in 2014
      • Betterment: a simpler path to wealth
      • Case Study 6: Helping an ill and elderly parent
      • Stocks -- Part XX: Early Retirement Withdrawal Strategies and Roth Conversion Ladders from a Mad Fientist
    • ► November (3)
      • Death, Taxes, Estate Plans, Probate and Prob8
      • Case Study #5: Zero to 2.6 million in 25 years
      • Case Study #4: Using the 4% rule and asset allocations.
    • ► October (3)
      • Republic Wireless and my $19 per month phone plan
      • Case Study #3: Let's get Tom to Latin America!
      • The Stock Series gets its own page
    • ► September (2)
      • Case Study #2: Joe -- off to a fast start!
      • Chautauqua 2013: A Week of Dreams
    • ► August (1)
      • Closing up shop plus an opening at Chautauqua, my new podcast, phone, book and other random cool stuff
    • ► July (1)
      • They Will Kill You For Your Shoes!
    • ► June (4)
      • Stocks -- Part VIII-b: Should you avoid your company's 401k?
      • Shilpan's Seven Habits to Live More with Less
      • Stocks -- Part XIX: How to think about money
      • My path for my kid -- the first 10 years
    • ► May (5)
      • Why your house is a terrible investment
      • Stocks — Part XVIII: Investing in a raging bull
      • Dining with the Ghosts of Sarah Bernhardt and Alfons Mucha
      • How we finally got the house sold
      • Stocks — Part XVII: What if you can't buy VTSAX? Or even Vanguard?
    • ► April (4)
      • Greetings from Prague & a computer question
      • Swimming with Tigers, a 2nd chance on the Chautauqua, a financial article gets it wrong and I'm off to Prague
      • Storage, Moving and Movers
      • Homeless, and a bit on the strategy of dollar cost averaging
    • ► March (4)
      • Wild Turkeys, Motorcycles, Dining Room Sets & Greed
      • Roots v. Wings: considering home ownership
      • How about that stock market?!
      • The Blog has New Clothes
    • ► February (5)
      • Meet Mr. Money Mustache, JD Roth, Cheryl Reed & me for a Chautauqua in Ecuador
      • High School Poetry, Carnival, cool ads and random pictures that caught my eye
      • Consignment Shops: Best business model ever?
      • Cafes
      • Stocks -- Part XVI: Index Funds are really just for lazy people, right?
    • ► January (5)
      • Social Security: How secure and when to take it
      • Fighting giraffes, surreal landscapes, dancing with unicorns and restoring a Vanagon
      • My plan for 2013
      • VITA, income taxes and the IRS
      • How to be a stock market guru and get on MSNBC
  • ► 2012 (53)
    • ► December (6)
      • See you next year....until then: The Origin of Life, Life on Other Worlds, Mechanical Graveyards, Great Art, Alternative Lifestyles and Finding Freedom
      • Stocks -- Part XV: Target Retirement Funds, the simplest path to wealth of all
      • Stocks -- Part XIV: Deflation, the ugly escort of Depressions.
      • Stocks Part XIV: Deflation, the ugly escort of Depressions.
      • Stocks -- Part XIII: The 4% rule, withdrawal rates and how much can I spend anyway?
      • How I learned to stop worrying about the Fiscal Cliff and you can too.
    • ► November (2)
      • Rent v. owning: A couple of case studies in Ecuador
      • So, what does a month in Ecuador cost anyway?
    • ► October (4)
      • See you in December....
      • Meet me in Ecuador?
      • The Podcast: You can hear me now.
      • Stocks -- Part XII: Bonds
    • ► September (6)
      • Stocks -- Part XI: International Funds
      • The Smoother Path to Wealth
      • Case Study #I: Putting the Simple Path to Wealth into Action
      • Tales of Bolivia: Calle de las Brujas
      • Stocks -- Part X: What if Vanguard gets Nuked?
      • Travels in South America: It was the best of times....
    • ► August (1)
      • Home again
    • ► June (4)
      • Yellow Fever, closing up shop for the summer and heading to Peru y Bolivia
      • I could not have said it better myself...
      • Stocks -- Part IX: Why I don't like investment advisors
      • Happy Birthday, jlcollinsnh; and thanks for the gift Mr. MM!
    • ► May (6)
      • Stocks -- Part VIII: The 401K, 403b, TSP, IRA & Roth Buckets
      • Mr. Money Mustache
      • The College Conundrum
      • Stocks -- Part VII: Can everyone really retire a millionaire?
      • Stocks -- Part VI: Portfolio ideas to build and keep your wealth
      • Stocks -- Part V: Keeping it simple, considerations and tools
    • ► April (6)
      • Stocks -- Part IV: The Big Ugly Event, Deflation and a bit on Inflation
      • Stocks -- Part III: Most people lose money in the market.
      • Stocks -- Part II: The Market Always Goes Up
      • Stocks -- Part 1: There's a major market crash coming!!!! and Dr. Lo can't save you.
      • You can eat my Vindaloo, mega lottery, Blondie, Noa, Israel Kamakawiwo 'Ole, art, film and a ride on the Space Shuttle
      • Where in the world are you?
    • ► March (7)
      • How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part V: Sold! and the taxman cometh.
      • How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part IV: I become a Landlord.
      • How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part III: The Battle is Joined.
      • How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part II: The Limits of the Law.
      • How I lost money in real estate before it was fashionable, Part I: Impossibly Naive.
      • You, too, can be conned
      • Armageddon and the value of practical skills
    • ► February (6)
      • Rent v. Owning Your Home, opportunity cost and running some numbers
      • The Casanova Kid, a Shit Knife, a Good Book, Having No Regrets, Dark Matter and a bit of Magic
      • What Poker, Basketball and Mike Whitaker taught me about Luck
      • How to Give like a Billionaire
      • Go ahead, make my day
      • Muk Finds Success in Tahiti
    • ► January (5)
      • Travels with "Esperando un Camino"
      • Beanie Babies, Naked Barbie, American Pickers and Old Coots
      • Selling the House and Adventures in Staging
      • The bashing of Index Funds, Jack Bogle and a Jedi dog trick
      • Magic Beans
  • ► 2011 (22)
    • ► December (1)
      • Dividend Growth Investing
    • ► November (2)
      • The Mummy's head, Particle Physics and "Knocking on Heaven's Door"
      • "It's Better in the Wind" or why I ride a motorcycle
    • ► October (1)
      • Lazy Days and School Days
    • ► July (2)
      • The road to Zanzibar sometimes goes thru Ecuador...
      • Johnny wins the lotto and heads to Paris
    • ► June (16)
      • Chainsaws, Elm Trees and paying for College
      • Stuff I’ve failed at: the early years
      • Snatching Victory from the Jaws of Defeat
      • The. Worst. Used. Car. Ever.
      • Top Ten reasons your future is so bright it hurts my eyes to look at it
      • The Most Dangerous Words Your Customer Can Say
      • How not to drown in The Sea of Assholes
      • What we own and why we own it
      • The Ten Sales Commandments
      • My ever so formal and oh so dry CV
      • How I failed my daughter and a simple path to wealth
      • The Myth of Motivation
      • Why you need F-you money
      • My short attention span
      • Why I can’t pick winning stocks, and you can’t either
      • The Monk and the Minister

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