The Exit Node - A New Chapter
The Point of No Return
"A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him." —Ezra Pound
A major new chapter in our family life is beginning, and I’m writing this newsletter to document the journey.
So, what are we doing, and why might you want to follow along?
In short: we’ve sold our house and plan to travel the world with our children, just backpacks, and two years ahead of us.
Maybe you’ve daydreamed about doing something similar. If so, you may want to consider subscribing.
Every now and then, we like shaking things up. Day to day, I enjoy routine, but over time, routine can grow stale. And when it does, we throw everything in the blender.
We’ve done it before. Life in the UK turned into ten years in Australia. Then, three years back in the UK. Then two years in Ireland. And now we’ve been back in the UK for nine.
After returning to the UK from Australia, I discovered Bitcoin. At first, it sparked a subtle mental shift, but over time, it completely changed how I see and interact with the world.
From 2022 onwards, we started meeting other Bitcoiners. We learned from them about homeschooling, worldschooling, and the adventures they’d had. We realised we didn’t need to stay tied to the rat race. Our wealth was now stored in a borderless, unconfiscatable asset.
This newsletter isn’t going to be about Bitcoin, but it exists because of Bitcoin and the freedom it has presented to us.
We realised the only thing preventing our freedom was a house, a mortgage and all the (mostly unnecessary) stuff inside it.
We listed the house for sale in late 2024, and by February this year, we had a buyer. The only thing keeping us grounded was now our possessions. Furniture, TVs, boxes of stuff! Over the past two weeks, we have sold, given away to charity or thrown out 90% of our possessions. We’ve kept the irreplaceable, the photos, memorabilia, etc.
We need to wait for our youngest to finish her current school year; freedom is just around the corner now.
I don’t know exactly where this journey will take us, but I hope you’ll come along for the ride. Let’s see what we learn along the way.
More soon,
Stay free,
Simon