Spring Break 2025 – Retire by 40

Hey Everyone!

I hope you’re enjoying Spring Break! This year, we are flying to visit my brother and his family in North Carolina. I haven’t seen my nephew and niece for a while so I’m really looking forward to it. We don’t have many plans for this trip. We’ll probably visit Raleigh and Seagrove (a pottery town), but that’s about it. If you can recommend a good place for us to visit near Raleigh, let me know in the comment section.

Anyway, I’m taking a couple of weeks off from blogging. There has been a lot of negativity lately and I need a reset.

Here are some pictures to cheer everyone up.

This is the pastry case at Champagne Poetry in Portland. We tried the lychee and peach cake. They were amazing, seriously. I highly recommend the pastries here. Check them out if you’re in town. The food wasn’t that impressive, though.

Spring has arrived in Portland! This camellia tree in our neighborhood was beautiful. It was a welcomed sight after a long winter.

My latest bowls. The creamy yellow bowl was meant to be a chawan (matcha tea bowl), but it was too big so I turned it into an ikebana vase.

Matcha & chocolate croissant. Yum.

Have a great spring break! Do you have any fun plans? Going down to UCSB for Deltopia?

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Joe started Retire by 40 in 2010 to figure out how to retire early. After 16 years of investing and saving, he achieved financial independence and retired at 38.

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