ABOUT

Our Story

Who are we?

We are husband and wife team live in west coast.

Travel bug has bit us many years ago

Both Mr. and Mrs. Random Farmer loves road trips and takes once a year long road trip to National Parks. So far we have visited 21 National Parks. We visit at-least one national park every year. In some good years, we visit 2 to 3 national parks. In all national parks, we visit, we hike most of easy and medium trials and few difficult trails. We do try to go abroad once a year, but this does not happen on all years.

Food addicts, but healthy eaters

Mrs. Random Farmer is vegan and gluten free. Loves to cook, also well organized and loves to plan everything in life. Eager to try new things. When Mrs. RF sees some new vegetable or fruit, buys and tries at least once. If the new item ended up suiting our taste buds, it becomes part of our regular menu. If a dish we try in a restaurant tickles our taste buds, Mrs. RF, comes up with her own version of her favorite restaurant dish from the ingredients in the menu. We try to eat as many home cooked meals as possible. But we do eat out once or twice a week. Mrs. RF became gluten-free from 2017, before that we used to eat out a lot. But after becoming gluten-free, its hard to get vegan and gluten-free meals in restaurant (Mrs. RF does not consider salad as a meal, she loves to make her own organic salad at home). Most of the time, we end up going to vegan restaurant and in vegan restaurants, the menu has very few gluten-free options. Mrs. RF never had any fake meats and will never have, she is vegetarian from birth. We love Italian, Mexican, Thai, Indian and Mediterranean  Food. After becoming GF, Mrs. RF makes all kinds of yummy Food at home, tries to make different cuisines at home everyday. We use only organic ingredients to cook (with one exception - Mrs. RF's favorite vegetable okra is not available in organic, also when we see some new vegetable or fruit which we have never seen and the new item is available only non-organic, we do buy that, just for trying at least once) This change had a positive outcome with our finance, our Groceries and Restaurant bills reduced a lot. Little more work, but eating much healthier and yummy food at home.

Workouts

We also try to workout 4 to 5 days a week. Most weekends we go for long leisure hikes.

What are we doing with our finance?

We are slowly marching in FIRE path, along the way, we enjoy life by spending time on what we love to do.

We make budget once a year and Mr. RF monitors income / expense using Personal Capitol. But Mrs. RF write down our every expenses in simple excel sheet and monitors all the expenses. Once a month we have our monthly balance sheet meeting and monitor all our accounts.

Who is Mr. RF?

Mr. RF is sweet husband, helps Mrs. RF in so many ways. He takes care of laundry every single week. He waters the plants everyday, even though we have drip irrigation, we use that only when we travel, the rest of the time, Mr. RF waters the plants everyday. On most days he helps with cleaning the dishes. He is also in-charge of trash. Mrs. RF takes care of trash only when Mr. RF is out of town, which happens once or twice a year. He loves to play chess and he is in-charge of our family's finance. Mr. RF loves to read, Mrs. RF hates to read, but loves listening to audio-books, pod-casts and radio. Every night while Mrs. RF makes food, Mr. RF reads book for Mrs. RF, isn't that sweet? Yes, I know Mr. RF spoils her in all possible ways.

What are we trying to achieve with out site?

We are using this site as a tool to document our FIRE story. We both contribute to this site. Food posts are written by Mrs. RF. Both Mr and Mrs. RF contribute to Travel and Finance posts.