Mustache Really on the Move: Heading to Canada for the Summer
Dear Mustachians,
Thank you so much for all the fun and motivation you’ve provided for both me and your fellow readers so far. We have a lot more adventures in Wealth to experience together.
I just wanted to let you know that I’m leaving today for the big annual trip to Canada (the Great lakes region of it specifically, including Hamilton and Ottawa). We’ve been going every year since retirement began, usually for 4-6 weeks in total. Families and friends mix and grandparents and grandchildren play. So at the very moment any up-to-date readers are reading this, I am probably zooming Eastwards on Interstate 80, crossing Colorado, Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan, and then Ontario. Cool, Eh?
Each year I like to throw in a major construction project for a family member or friend to keep myself entertained on such a long trip. I call it “Carpentourism”. So I bring up a carload of specialized tools to supplement whatever I can borrow once I get there. This year’s project is a fantastic little lakeside cottage that the inlaws had built up to the rough-in stage over the winter. I get to do the entire interior finish job including a kitchen, bathroom, and all sorts of fancy woodwork and doors, as well as all the various fixtures. Some of the work will be done alongside a nephew who just grew up to reach Little Man status this year, and even my brother (who, as a bit of trivia for you, happens to be the Canadian Indie Rock Star Wax Mannequin).
All of this travel will surely provide plenty of new fodder for the MMM cannon during the trip. But of course, the posting schedule will become somewhat more random. This cottage will take many hours of work, and there is also beer to be drunk, and the uneasy freedom of No Constant Iphone Internet Access that comes with being in a foreign country.
So, keep visiting and writing in, read some of the old classic articles if you find there are no new ones on a given day, and have a great summer!
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Mr. Money Mustache is a family man living in the United States who retired from work, relatively wealthy, at about age 30. After several years of retirement, he noticed that his still-working peers were envious of his lifestyle. They were making more money than he ever had, yet they were somehow still broke. So he decided to write this blog to educate the world on how it is done.
Sounds fantastic – after your busy posting schedule so far you deserve a seriously Mustachian break. Enjoy!
So Canada will interrupt your usual scheduled programming? Like Cartman, then, I blame Canada. ;-) Kidding. Have a fun time.
Sounds like tons of fun! You can always stop in for coffee on your way through Michigan LOL
Foreign country? I thought you were one of us! You may be perpetuating the stereotype that the entire country is made up of back woods with spotty to non-existent cell phone and internet access…. Sounds like you will be having a very handy vacation. Have a great time!
Have fun, MMM. Sounds like a terrific vacation, love the term “Carpentourism”.
I’m from Hamilton, ON! And I love Wax Mannequin! Small world. A local star.
Keep up the good blogging. And if you need to borrow tools for a project, maybe I could hook you up.
Best,
Alan
You were traveling westwards from Colorado to the great lakes?
Sorry to be that guy :-)
Oops, I just noticed that too and fixed it. Otherwise it would be a 22,000 mile journey instead of 2,000 miles.