It’s been quite awhile since I posted an update on our progress toward our geographic independence goal – by which I mean what is our GI-qualified income and how does it measure up to our plan for hitting our GI goal?

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It’s time to pull out the ruler and measure our progress toward our geographic independence goal as of the end of February, 2009. By which I mean, how much income did we have and how did that match up to the plan?

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It’s time to pull out the ruler and measure our progress toward our geographic independence goal as of the end of January, 2009. By which I mean, how much income did we have and how did that match up to the plan?

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I started this blog in the last quarter of 2008 for a couple reasons. One of them was to act as a record of progress toward our geographic independence goal, so it seems appropriate to post a summary of how we’ve progressed in 2008 and what some of our goals for 2009 are.

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Last week I wrote about my wife’s and my thoughts regarding factors to consider when picking a brokerage to use for investing the initial funds we’ll dedicate to achieving our geographic independence goal. I ended the last post about those factors with a promise to write about the result of our research and the decision we’ve made. Well, we’ve made that decision, as well as a bit of a plan for moving money around, and I want to write it all down so we don’t get confused about what we’ve agreed to.

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