Olafman, I also want to thank you for sharing your sabbatical with us. I have the same sentiments as you about the US/Trump, and I am much younger so retirement isn't an option for now. I hope to retire in Europe (should be easy enough since I'm a dual US/EU citizen), but that is far off for me since I'm in my upper 30's. I'd love to know how you are managing to retire early if you don't mind sharing... in any case, thank you again and please keep posting about your trip so we can keep following your story and living vicariously through you!