“Aren’t the schools terrible?” That’s one of the top questions I get when I tell people we’re moving to Hawaii. Schooling was one of the first few things we thought about when we considered moving, even before Hawaii became our destination.  I suppose that’s normal for any parent. The fact…

Ok, it’s not ALL about the Benjamins, but no money, no adventure. Wanting to go do something crazy was fairly easy for Kirsten and me.   Virtually all of our struggles have been with how to pull it off.  While we are dreamers, we’re also pretty harshly realistic about things. As…

If you followed the stock market in 2000, you’ll recall all the dotcom flameouts, including Pets.com, Webvan, and eToys. Stocks that went from 60 to 2 (and 0), but still sat in your stock portfolio, as it was hard to realize the loss and close it out. As I start…

The decision to move to Hawaii for a year really started as punting on a big decision We’ve talked for years about moving.  In Kir’s words, “somewhere without winter.” Pretty quickly, we got to a short list of Florida, Austin, and San Diego.  We violated the winter rule by thinking…