How To Retire Early: Your Guide to Getting Rich Slowly and Retiring on Less

Author's note: This book was last updated in 2018 and covers a primary investment period from 1992 to 2006. Thus, while the concepts in this book are still valid, it is beginning to show its age as the years pass since our retirement in 2006.

What makes this book different from all the other books out there on early retirement? We think it's the amount of personal financial detail we provide. We don’t hold back! You can use this information as a kind of financial yardstick to measure what is possible in your own life.

We retired from full-time work at the age of 43. In this book we share with you the roadmap we followed to get from full-time work to financial independence in less than 15 years. If we can do it, so can you! If we can empower you to stop dreaming and start planning, to stop wishing and start willing your early retirement into existence, we’ll have done what we set out to do in this book.

Robert and Robin Charlton retired early from their jobs at the age of 43 so they could travel the world and live life more fully. They live in Boulder, Colorado but spend much of the year traveling both in the U.S. and abroad. They prefer to travel slowly and on foot as much as possible, staying in a country for weeks or months at a time when they can. They keep a personal website documenting their travels at wherewebe.com.