19# My Monthly Financial Independence Update

The Quick Takeaways

This month savings rate: 0 %

Yearly Passive Income (5 % withdrawal with taxes): 14.300 DKK (1900 $)

% change since last month: – 15 %

Back In Denmark (On Wealthfare)

Mini retirements in South East Asia and a pandemic doesn’t go hand in hand.

We were working on the boat, doing some repairs on it in Carmen – Philippines. There were supposed to come 8 new guests on board, and everybody did arrive in the Philippines. But 6 of them decided to go home immediately.

So we were me and my first maid, and two guests. We told them that we couldn’t promise them anything. Because we didn’t know how the situation would unfold.

We were optimistic in the beginning, but as days went by. Everything started slowly to close down. It got harder and harder to get a lift into town. And one day they have decided that no one with white skin could leave the harbor. All of the marine traffic was banned as well, so we couldn’t even leave the harbor by boat if we wanted to.

So we were stuck in there. The bar was still open, so I didn’t miss anything. We could still order nice affordable food, and whatever we had a desire to drink was there. So no panic.

About 10 days in this pandemic we decided that it might be smart to go home. We had no idea if the whole country we shut down, and what would that mean to our situation.

We booked not one, but two flights that got canceled.

I wasn’t until the ministry of foreign affairs sent a flight to the Philippines that we could come home.

So right now I have spent more than 2000 $ on flights that got canceled, which I’m going to try to get refunded.

When Shit Hits the Fan

This situation is probably as bad as it can get from my point of view. Which is not even so bad. 

I’m back here in Denmark. My flat is still rented out. So I don’t have any spending on an apartment. I will receive about 18.000 DKK/month (2650 $) in welfare (Dagpenge) before taxes, which will net in about 12.000 DKK/month (1800 $).

I can save and invest 50 % of that since my spending only will be determined by my eating and transport.

Even in the shittiest situation, I can be, I’m still able to continue my FIRE journey.

Second Month With Double Digit Drop

This is the second month with a double-digit drop.

Last month I was down 10 %, and this month I’m down 15 %.

I have kind of looked forward to a bear market to see how I would react to one. Because I have always thought that I didn’t really care. Actually, I think I would enjoy a bear market, so I could buy more stocks on sale.

Which is right.

I couldn’t care less that the market is down. The only thing that frustrates me, is that I don’t have more cash laying around to buy a good chunk of cheap shares.

But with the welfare, I should be able to buy some.

Kakeibo Experiment

The other day I read “Your Money or Your Life” for the second time (It is a really good book).

And they suggest that you track every cent you spent for at least three months in a row. By doing that you should be able to reduce your spending by 20 % or more.

If we do so, we are then able to look at the previous month’s spending. And ask our self if we got the joy out of that spending or not.

If not, we can minimize our spending, and be able to invest more to claim our freedom.

And that’s where I stumbled into Kakeibo. A simple and old Japanese way of tracking your spending. The next blogpost will be about my Kakeibo experiment in the previous month.

I will continue for three months, and see if I’m able to reduce my spending.

Are You On Top Of Your Finances?

If your answer is no, write me mail and tell me your story.

I answer every mail I get.

Feel free to write if you just want to say hello too.

You can reach me on the following mail:

Loui@Wannabewalden.com

18# My Monthly Financial Independence Update

The Quick Takeaways

This month savings rate: 0 %

Yearly Passive Income (5 % withdrawal with taxes): 14.300 DKK (2100 $)

% change since last month: – 10 %

Where Did My Cash Go?!

The stock market is down.

It is the biggest monthly drop in my portfolio EVER!

When that being said. I have sold shares and spent 8400 $ (54.000 DKK) since I started my mini-retirement in April 2019. (I have spent more money than that, but that “Income” is from my portfolio)

Which is an awesome thing for you guys who are still buying up shares. But not for me who is in a mini-retirement, and sort of dependent on cashing out some shares to get by.

I enjoy selling shares that were almost 40 % more expensive than I bought it.

It meant I got 40 cents for every dollar I invested. Not bad. But now it is more like I get 28 cents for every dollar. Which is still not bad, but it does hurt a bit more to sell a share now.

I still have a good amount of cash, but they might not be sufficient for the next 6 months.

Back In The Philippines

Two days ago arrived back in the Philippines.

What should have been a week in France, ended up being 14 days instead. The boat that I’m going to sail with. Has kept postponing when they are going to leave Indonesia because of bad weather.

That meant I could spend some more days in France. I’m looking forward to the next six months of adventure. But being away from the girl I visited in France is tough. We are not going to see each other for the next six months. It is far from ideal to miss a person that much when I was supposed to have the time of my life.

I’m trying to tell my self that it is possible to miss a person back in Europe, and still have the time of my life here in Asia. But I would lie if I say it doesn’t take a good amount of internal convincing.

I just guess it is a sailor’s life.

Making a FREE Online Course

I have decided to make a free online course on how to reach Coast FIRE in three years or less.

I decided to make it because I think many people will benefit from getting educated on how “little money” can secure your future.

Special young people, who going to choose which education they should do. And maybe go down a route because of the money and “prestige”.

You can reach Coast FIRE in three years or less, with any formal education here in Denmark. And this course will prove it.

It will be short. It will be basic. But it will be efficient as f### !

How LITTLE Money Do We Need In Order To Become Financial Independent?

25 Times Your Annual Spending is A Lot of Money

Let’s be honest. If you are reading this as 20 something years old, and you have just started to make some money. GOOD FOR YOU! You are better off than many other people.

But not everybody is that lucky. Some might just get all these “FIRE information” when they are 30, 40 well maybe even 50+ years old.

Nobody told them they could do what they REALLY wanted if they just saved and invested some money.

BUT! Even if you are stoked about the idea of chasing FIRE, and you are 25 years old. If you are a diligent saver and save 60 % of your income. It will still take you 12 years of working, saving and investing. (7 % annual return)

If you start when you are 25 years old, it means that you will be 37 years old when you have reached your goal of 25 times your annual spending.

That is not bad at all.

But you would still have wasted a lot of time being at a soul-sucking job you don’t like.

Psssst… My Little Secret You Can’t Tell Anyone

I got several new friends by being a part of this FIRE community. And many of them are super badass. The ones that are probably the coolest are the following:

Jacob Lund Fisker

Pernille Wahlgren 

Pete Adeney (Don’t know him personally)

They do differ a bit from each other.

When you meet Pernille she seems to have a very normal/glamorous life with expensive vacations with the entire family. And Jacob is a bit more extreme and is spending less than 10.000 $/year with no kids. Pete Adeney has one kid, he does own a couple of cars but prefers to bike around.

But the thing they have in common is that they have all reached financial independence by having a normal job.

Said in another way. They all have more than 25 times their annual spending saved and invested.

But they have another thing in common. 

And here is my “secret”. 

Not any of them touches the principal of their portfolio. 

Yep, that’s right.

All of them have some sort of new business or job, that covers their expenses. None of them uses the money they have in the portfolio. It is more like a nice cushion if they didn’t feel like making an income.

But FIRE is not about not working. It is about doing stuff you like more, and you decide how many hours you feel like doing it.

So why should you save up 25 times (or more) of your annual spending? To “retire”, but never touch that principal.

Why don’t we just save up 2-5 times our annual spending? Do a bit of work, which is nice. Go for a couple of mini-retirements. And let compound interest do the rest of the work?

Do We Even Need 25 Times Our Annual Spending?

“How much money you would like to retire with??”

It is often the question we hear when we talk about personal finance. But it is the wrong angle to ask the question.

How LITTLE money can we retire with is the right way to ask that question.

The “25 times-your-annual-spending-rule” is based on the thought that we never want to run out of money. And why is that?

What if the day we hit the graveyard, that will be the same day that our accounts are empty. If that is the case. We could change our goal.

The average danish person is going to be 81 years old. 

So if we want to hit the graveyard with no money. AND we don’t want to have an income from when we are 65 years old. (Which is almost impossible because we have the public retirement funds)

That means we only need to have 16 times our annual spending saved and invested. Because we have only have 16 more years to live.

Even with 16 times our annual spending, and a conservative allocation of 50 % bonds and 50 % global stocks (because we are old and worried about stock market crashes). You only have a 5 % chance of running out of money.*

At the bottom 10th percentile you still end up on the graveyard with 2 times your annual spending to your name.*

And we are more than likely to end up with MORE money than when we started our retirement as 65 years old.

You can have as little as 10 times your annual spending in a 100 % global stock portfolio and STILL only have a 45 % chance of running out of money.

And remember the goal was to have an empty account when we were about to die.

Early Retirement 2.0

So how LITTLE money do we need to retire early?

This graph will show you how much you need to have saved and invested to hit 16 times your annual spending at age 65.

The assumptions are the following:

  • We spend 25.000 $/year (175.000 DKK) (That is what Pete Adeney is spending, which is not too extreme.)
  • We invest in a 100 % global stock portfolio

Or we can put it another way.

How many times our annual spending do we need according to our age, to hit 16 times our annual spending at age 65.

So if you read this at 40 years old. And you would like to spend 15.000 $/year when you are 65 years old.

You are going to be perfectly fine if you have 51.000 $ saved and invested.

From that point, you can just earn what you are spending. Which is probably something you can earn by working part-time or work for a couple of months each year.

Or!

Just continue working, stashing up way more cash than you would ever need.

At the moment I have about 75.000 $ (520.000 DKK) invested, which is about 4-5 times my annual spending. If I just leave that money till I’m 65 years old they will probably compound* into something like 640.000 $ (4.400.000 DKK). (After inflation)

Which is more like 36 times my annual spending.

In that case, I will be 65 years old, but I have money for the next 36 years, without relying on interest there is more than inflation.

So take it easy!

You probably have way more money in your portfolio than you need to!

*www.portfoliovisualizer.com

Got Questions? Write Me!

I would always like to hear from you.

No matter what you have to say!

Write me at:

Loui@wannabewalden.com

17# My Monthly Financial Independence Update

The Quick Takeaways

This month savings rate: 0 %

Passive Yearly Income (5 % withdrawal with taxes): 16.900 DKK (2500 $)

% change since last month: + 0,4 %

So What The F#ck Happen This Month?

  • Stock Market went up, networth went down
  • Going to France
  • Train, eat, sleep and repeat

Spending, spending and more spending

We all know the this simple equation for wealth building:

Spending < Earnings

It is simpelt. But very effective.

I’m doing the direct opposite at the moment. Having no income at all, and spending a ton of money. In many years I have known where my money went. But the last month. I feel like I have spent about a 1000 $, when I have spend closer to 3000 $.

And because of that. I’m going to track my spending. I know many people who has tracked their spending. I have done that myself. But it has been done automatically with apps that uses your bank transactions.

But I don’t feel like you get emotionally attached to that transaction, the same way as if you do it manually.

So that’s where I found the Kakeibo method (pronounced Kah-Keh-Boh). Long story short. Is a simple money management where you write spending and earnings in hand.

I will make a complete blogpost about it someday. So I won’t cover the topic to much now.

“Je Vais A Paris!!!”

In best google translate style.

I’m going to France! And it is not completely random that I have chosen France. The thing that shouldn’t happen, did happen.

When I was back in Denmark, and preparing myself for my mini retirement. One of the biggest bullet points on my “Not-To-Do-List”. Was NOT to fell in love with a girl. And that went perfect back in Denmark.

But then I went away for the first part of my mini retirement. Which was two months in Indonesia on the boat (Orbit) as a skipper trainee. These two months was super awesome.

I got to:

  • To know the boat quiet good (Thanks to Mathias, the current skipper).
  • Get four new diving licenses and become a PADI Divemaster.
  • Get the experience of being on a yacht for two months.

But another thing happen as well.

There was this girl. And without going into to much details. Let’s just say I can’t stop thinking about her. Guess what?! She is currently doing an exchange period with her studies in medicin in……… (Drum roll please)

France.

So I have decided to spent 1500+ $ on a ten day trip to Paris and Lyon.

I think the money is going to be well spent.

Cebu Is Gooooood

My days are looking pretty much the same everyday.

They look something like this:

  • Sleep as long as I can. Do some writing/reading/meditating or anything else productive. I might watch too much YouTube though.
  • 1 PM – First Jiu Jitsu training session
  • 4 PM – Eating (Doing OMAD at the moment)
  • 8 PM – Second Jiu Jitsu Training

I love having nice and quiet days. And I think it is the most perfect way I can prepare myself for the six months I’m going to be at sea.

I will be leaving for France the 13/2, and come back here to Cebu the 24/2.

A picture of some of the guys from Patos Jiu Jitsu here in Cebu.

I’m really bad at taking pictures. (Working on that habit)

But for some reason I manage to do an instagram story or two. So if you want some footage of my (currently) mini retirement.

Go and follow me on instagram:

@LouiLam

Set Your Kids on FIRE

I’m sitting here in a café in Cebu – Philippines. Trying to look cooperate in my beige wife beater. Sipping the least expensive coffee on the menu (1 $/cup). While I’m scrolling through the investment platform I use.


I’m doing that because I need to open an investment account for my good friends new born child.


This is the fourth time I’m doing so. Whenever one of my good friends are having a kid. I will be the “financial uncle” who helped their parents not to fuck up their financial future.

FIRE… My Kids?! NO!!!!!!

Oh yes. And here is why.

Your kids are not going to worry about money from when they being born till they gotta move away from home.

Well yes. They might start to “worry” about money when they become teenagers. But that will only concern 15 $ for a couple of beers they can hammer. When they have told you they were going to watch some movie at their friends place. (Yes, I have done that)

So from when a kid is born. We have 20 years of undisturbed investing. Which is a good long time span to invest in stocks.

My Mom Tried to Set Me On FIRE

The biggest risk is not taking any risk

Mark Zuckerberg

My mom did the best thing she thought she could do.

She opened an account for me and my sister. Paying 15 $/month to the account. And in 18 years. That money would be around:

(12 months x 15 $) x 18 years = 3240 $

That is not too shabby when you are 18 years old, and need to buy pots and pans for your new place to live.

But what my mom didn’t do. Was to make money do the heavy lifting. And take advantage of those 18 years of undisturbed time.

I was born in October 1990. And I got these money from my mom when I decided to leave home when I was 18. That will be around late 2008.

If my mom would have invested that money in a 100 % world index portfolio. I would have had 5200 $. And that is with the financial crack in 2008. The year before I would have had about 7000 $ to my name.*

The worst 20 year period to invest in stocks the last 50 years was from 1989 to 2009. So despite investing the worst 20 years. My mom would still have a 5,7 % annual return. AFTER taxes and fees are paid.*

It is Not The Parents Fault

The sad thing is. Alot of people are doing this. With the best intentions. They are doing it because nobody has told them that there is a better way to give your kid a head start.

And that is why I’m writing this article.

What you have to do is:

  1. Just do what you normal would. (Like my mom for example)
  2. Transfer them to an investment account
  3. Find the cheapest and broadest diversified stock index portfolio (Preferably an environmental one)
  4. Invest in that

It was a coincidence that I was borned in the worst time to invest in stocks. If I was born in 1974 and my mom would have started invested there. The annual return would have been 12,3 %. (After fees, taxes and inflation*)

Then the 15 $/month would have turned into:

12,150 $ (After fees, taxes and inflation*)

That is almost 4 times more money, than if she just had kept them in cash. Or about 9000 $ just left on the table.

Set Your Kids on FIRE (With Gasoline)

We can take it even further.

Imagine if we swapped that 15 $/month out with 50 $/month instead.

Yes, that would be an awful lot of money your kid will end up having. But who says that these money is for the kids?

Well it is. But if we did saved up 50 $/month on a seperate account for them. We could withdraw from that fund, whenever they had an expensive birthday or similar. It would just be like saving up for the 15 year old birthday.

Let’s take an example.

If we had a kid 18 years ago, and we managed to save and invest 50 $/month from the day it was born. Their account would look something like this*:

If our kid had an account like that. We could easily withdraw a couple of 1000 $ here and there, without it meant that they didn’t have any money when the turned 18.

*Ifa.com

1:1 Coaching

Have you read about all this FIRE thing. And still are confused where to start?

Or do you just need a mentor to along your journey?

That is why I have started the 1:1 coaching. I walk the talk. And as I write this I’m in the middle of my mini retirement.

Check the whole thing out here on this site, and feel free to write me questions. Or if you just want to say hello.

16# My Monthly Financial Independence Update

The Quick Takeaways

This month savings rate: 0 %

Passive Yearly Income (5 % withdrawal with taxes): 17.400 DKK (2680 $)

% change since last month: + 1,7 %

So What The F#ck Happen This Month?

  • Enjoying Indonesia
  • Four new diving licenses
  • Selling shares!!! (Not enjoyable)
  • Still working on the mobile writing habit.

Indonesia, What a Blast!

I have now been in Indonesia for two months. And it has been a blast.

Even though I feel like I have sailed a lot back home. I have never had the experience of sailing with 8 other people I don’t know.

When you live with 8 other people on a boat there is 15 m long, you will be tested constantly. People who think they might be the most patient people, suddenly see that they might not be that patient after all. Which can fuck up some people’s thoughts about themselves.

And small problems can become the end of the world. This morning one of the girls grabbed an empty milk from the fridge, and she bursted into tears because she couldn’t have her cold milk on her morning cereals.

That is the beauty about sailing.

Because on the other side. We sail during the night. With a sky so full of stars I have never seen in my entire life. And the moon shines so bright that it doesn’t seem like night. And when we anchor the following day. It is the most lovely blue coloured water, with white sand beaches with palm trees, we can climb if we want a coconut to feast on.

Sailing is the highest high and the lowest lows.

When all of your clothes is wet (including your bed). And stuff starts the break on the boat. You have had the hardest night sailing. You ask your self why the fuck you are doing this.

It can change so quickly with the most beautiful anchoring spot. A freshly caught tuna on the grill. And you are about to go on the second (or even third) dive of the day where you see manta rays, sharks or even whales. Then it just feels like you couldn’t live life more than you are doing right now.

4 Diving Licenses in 45 Days

Even though the last two months has been so awesome. They have also been quiet tough.

Some of the days have been four dives a day, with the first one at 5:30 in the morning.

And in between dives I would do some repairing on the boat with the skipper onboard (Mathias). Plus I might do some cooking for nine people to feast on. So some of days has been without a break from early morning, to midnight. Even when I’m only doing awesome stuff, I can be really tired some nights.

But today I became a PADI dive master. Which means now have the following licenses:

  • PADI advanced
  • PADI rescue
  • PADI deep speciality
  • PADI dive master

I’m out of $$$

I have invested since 2014. And I have never ever sold a share in order to get some money to spent.

The other day I had sell shares worth of 50.000 DKK (7000 $).

I won’t lie. It did hurt to do so.

I had to do it because I still had 20.000 DKK (3000 $) in leverage. But the company change their ratings on their loans for investing. And it wouldn’t be beneficial for me anymore to have that leverage.

The second reason I had to do it is because I’m out of money.

I’m leaving Indonesia in a couple of days from now. Where a girl I met here on the boat, is going to join me for a couple of vacation days in Malaysia.

After that I will leave for the Philippines where I’m going to do jiu jitsu for two months.

And I do not have a single penny on my account.

So the last 30.000 DKK (5000 $) is going to be spent on my Malaysia trip and the Philippines. Hopefully the money will last.

Habits Will Shape Our Lives

And I’m still working on my “writing on my mobile habit”.

The phone I got for free was my sister’s old iPhone 6. After two months of being at sea that phone is about to die. And I blame the condition of that phone for why I haven’t kept up with my writing.

So in Malaysia I did the thing I probably hate the most.

Shopping.

And I bought myself a new phone. I will never pay what an iPhone phone costs. So I ended up with Samsung phone, it was cheap, and an insanely upgrade for any phone I ever had.

My writing habit will be to write at atleast 50 words every morning. Which can end up in 2-3 blog posts a month.

So stay tuned.

15# My Monthly Financial Independence Update

The Quick Takeaways

This month savings rate: 0 %

Passive Yearly Income (5 % withdrawal with taxes): 17.000 DKK (2600 $)

% change since last month: – 2 %

So What The F#ck Happen This Month?

  • Leaving Denmark in order to start my mini retirement in Asia
  • Spending many $$$
  • Figuring out how I’m going to write

My Mini Retirement in Asia

My second part of my mini retirement has officially started. I have been looking so much forward for this trip. But it is also the part that scares me the most.

At the moment I’m in Indonesia. I’m here as a co-skipper on the boat Orbit. The main skipper is called Mathias, and he has went to the same school as me. So we know a lot of the same sailor people.

Mathias is the bomb. And I’m taking some weight off his shoulders by doing some of the repairing on the boat. We have spent the last 7-8 days in the marina of Sorong to do some repairing. We do whatever we can in order to leave as fast as we can.

My timeline for my retirement looks like this:

  • 2 months in Indonesia as a co-skipper.
  • 2 months in boracay (Philippines) training Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
  • 6 months as a skipper in the Philippines, Indonesia and East-Timor.

Spending Money Is Awful

Even though the only thing I’m going to pay for is the two months in the Philippines where I’m going to be on my own. I still had a lot of shopping to-do before I had to leave Denmark.

I hate shopping.

It is the worse thing I know. Walking from store to store. To buy loads of shit that I feel like I’m not going to use. On top of that, I feel the inner environmentalist in me screaming.

I don’t do budgets. So I really don’t know what I have spent my money on. But I have been spending 3-4000 $ the last month, in order to get ready to leave Denmark for 10 months and being a skipper.

Writing Without a Computer

Yes I do have have a computer with me. But it is hassle using it. It requires so much more time to charge than my phone. And I’m quite busy all day fixing the boat we are going to sail. So I’m trying to develop a new habit of writing on my phone. It does go a bit slower. But I don’t have to sit down at a desk, and figuring out where I’m going to power my nearly 10 year old MacBook.

By writing on my phone I can do it on the go. I have set my phone up so that the first screen I see when the mobile is open, is writing related apps like WordPress, google docs and mailchimp.

I hate being a slave to the mobile. Interacting too much on social media and stuff like that. And from the moment I got a phone again. I can feel how much useless time I’m spending on it. So if I instead can spend time writing on the phone. I should be able to keep this blog running. Even though I might be 100s of kilometres away from shore.

I’m excited about trying to write 95 % of this blog on my phone!

See Photos of My Trip

My friend Jacob from jiu-jitsu gave me a crash course on how to make instagram stories. So I’m getting pretty good at taking some footage, and share it on instagram.

If you want to see what I’m doing on this long trip, you can go and check me out here:

@LouiLam

And I’m Off!

This the day that I will be leaving for my 10 month long mini retirement in Asia. The last couple of days I have been racing around town to find stuff that I need for the trip. Visiting doctors. Saying “See-ya” to friends and family.


The previous week I ended up in hospital for five days, because I had an infected knee. So know I will be leaving my home country Denmark, while I’m still on antibiotics, but I don’t worry to much about that. Being at the hospital didn’t make the previous days less stressful. My time schedule was already quite ambitious. So staying in bed for five days was far from ideal.

Doing Stuff That Scares Me

For a long time I have been excited to go on this trip. But for the last month is has scared the shit out of me. I often find myself doing stuff that I get so freaking nervous about, and like everyone else. I hate being nervous. But I have come the conclusion that it makes me feel alive.


I was always super nervous when I rowed, but I ended up doing that for 10 years.


Now I find myself competing in brazilian jiu jitsu. Which is even more terrifying than rowing. Because your opponent will try to choke that shit out of you.


And in four months, I’m going to be a skipper of a boat. Sailing in countries I haven’t been in before. With people I don’t know. It scares the shit out of me.


But proving that you can beat the other guys in a rowing boat. Or choking the other guys in BJJ. Or sailing across oceans you haven’t been sailing before. Is to prove to yourself that you are capable of doing things that you didn’t think was possible. And if that doesn’t make you feel alive. I don’t know what will.

Blogging With No Internet?

This blog will be the main place I will make updates on my mini retirement. But there will be periods where you will find me several nauticals miles from shore. Which means. I won’t have any wifi.
Besides that! I will do my very best to keep this blog updated.

Podcast: FIRE

The other day a podcast episode got released about FIRE. Lots of awesome danish people are in it, including myself.

The podcast is made by four really awesome radio/podcast students named: Daniel Sarto Lassen, Marie Kildebæk, Martin Broch & Leo Peter Larsen

You can check out Leo’s soundcloud page HERE

Or you can listen to the podcast episode by clicking play below. (It is in danish)

14# My Monthly Financial Independence Update

The Quick Takeaways

This month savings rate: 0 %

Passive Yearly Income (5 % withdrawal with taxes): 16.800 DKK (2550 $)

% Change since last month: 0 %  

So What The F*** Happen This Month

  • 1 Month till I leave for Indonesia
  • Got a mobile again (sadly)
  • Leaving for Croatia

Clock is Ticking

The airplane ticket is booked for the 29th of October.

That means there is less than a month till I will be leaving my home country Denmark. In order to sail and dive my ass off down in the pacific ocean for 10 months.

There was a little misunderstanding between mOcean and I. They had me booked two months onshore, so that I could go for the diving instructor education. But I had to pay it out of my own pocket. Which is an expensive education, and I don’t know if I will ever use the instructor role again.

The schedule will look something like this:

November & December 2019:

I will be joining Orbit (the boat) in Sorong, Indonesia. In order to learn everything about the boat from Mathias who is the captain now.

Sabrina (the diving instructor onboard) is going to up my game as a diver. And making sure that I have 80 dives in a safely manner.

January & February 2020

For now I think that I will go to Boracay in the Philippines. They have an awesome fighting club, where I can live and train brazilian jiu jitsu for only 500 $/month. And it is not to far away from Carmen Bay, where I’m going to jump back onboard on the boat. Hopefully a friend from my BJJ club will come and join me.

March to September 2020

I’m going to get the title as the captain of Orbit, along with my friend Sabrina which is going to be the diving instructor onboard.

We will be diving, and do a bit of sailing in the Philippines before we hit back to Indonesia again where Kasper and Anders will take the boat for more adventures.

My dad has just booked a trip on the boat. So he will be along for the last two months of the trip, which I’m super stoked about! Thanks for that dad!

Call or Text Me!

So the other day my sister gave me her old phone. (Thanks Luna!)

I can already feel how much time I end up spending on it. Which is a pity. But when I’m going to be in asia for 10 months, I find it a bit nice to have a mobile phone along with me.

Inorder for me to think it is nice to get a phone again, I think that you should be able to contact my directly on that. Call or text me if you have questions on FIRE or just want to say Hi!

My number is +45 71792322

Hallo Split!

I sit in my room in Split, Croatia writing this blog post.

We are 13 people down here from Oure Folk Highschool. In order to learn how to manoeuvre bigger boats.

Tomorrow we will onboard three boats. One 45 foot, and two 48 foot Jeanneau Sun Odyssey from 2014. Which is going to be awesome. I don’t think I have ever sailed so new boats before!