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I answer 10 questions with Mr. 1500 Days

01/19 by The Frug Leave a Comment

Carl is behind the financial independence blog 1500 Days to Freedom.  He’s recently been made famous in multiple New York Times articles, Yahoo Finance, and on Good Morning America. I first met Carl at FinCon 2018 (a personal finance conference) where I scored an email invite to his “bring your own” local craft beer party. Since this was my first time at FinCon I wanted to make sure that I fully participated. The idea of the party was to bring a local craft beer from wherever you were flying in from.

Carl had mentioned in an invite email about packing the local beer rolled in t-shirts in your suitcase and flying down on Southwest to avoid any baggage fees that would generally accompany checked baggage. Given my experience with checked baggage, I skipped that part since I’ve lost or had damaged luggage in at least 4 different countries and the US. Traveling to Italy, the airlines lost all our luggage for over a week on two different occasions 10 years apart. WTFrug Italy!

I decided it would be better to purchase my beer locally. After I checked into the resort, I decided to walk about a mile in the Florida heat to a nearby Publix. Unfortunately, there was a 6 lane road with very few stoplights (Thanks, Orlando). Luckily the Publix had a decent selection of craft beers from Maryland and Virginia so I picked up some 6 packs of Flying Dog and Devil’s Backbone and was on my way. Before the party, I could’ve told you which specific flavors I picked up, after the party, I have no recollection.

Quality FinCon Pool Image from Uncommondream.com

The craft beer tasting and FinCon was a smashing success. The two really go together quite nicely.  So, when I had the chance to answer 10 questions on 1500 Days I jumped on it. I’d already discovered other great blogs like Burrito Bowl Diaries and Freddy Smidlap through Carl’s 10 Questions series.

FinCon attendees breakout flamingo beer session IPA

1500 days is a great blog if you’re interested in financial independence, dinosaurs, and craft beer.  Also, you’ll learn a little bit about “Fart Fire” from my 10 questions, so head on over and check ‘em out. Or you will never know what Fart Fire is.

Carl’s well traveled Dinosaurs

Speaking of #FinCon, we just had a local meetup promoting the #FinCon19 event in Washington, DC. Based on the turn-out for the meet-up, DC should be the best one yet. If you’re interested in personal finance, blogging, or podcasting I highly recommend it.

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