Recent content by Biff Steele

Iron Mountain Road One thing I may add...Be careful not to get onto Iron Mountain Road near Mt. Rushmore if you're in an RV (or in a hurry!). My wife and I drove from Charleston to Seattle a couple of Augusts ago in her conversion van and one stop was Mt. Rushmore. At the welcome center in...

Taking out what we put into IRAs and savings, we spend about $5,000/month, on the high end of the averages since 1999. We have $360K (combined) in two Roths and about $750K in a 401K-type plan. The only way we have been able to do that is we have no kids (I don't know how people with kids make...

I have been crunching numbers, planning for years and looking at that tiny, time-worn piece of paper with "September 2018" written on it (my eligibility month) that I have been carefully taping to my desk after every move. A year from now, I could be retired. Sure enough, I got little voice...