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Hi, we're Tim + Fin
(And Pepper.) We're a married couple who saved $60,000 in 2015, quit our jobs and took a year-long honeymoon around the world. Ten years later we're still going, and we film all of it.
Our story
From coworkers to husband + wife
…and business partners, and full-time travelers. It wasn't always like this. Here's the ten-year version, from a Chicago office to traveling for a living.
- 2015
We saved $60,000 and quit
We left our corporate jobs and set off on a year-long honeymoon around the world.
How we saved it → - On the road
We filmed everything
That year became TRIPPED, our first travel series: the reality of travel, good and bad.
Watch TRIPPED → - Along the way
We met digital nomads
They made us rethink "going back." We gave Amazon FBA a try to build location independence and financial freedom.
How we afford this → - 2017
We started Tripped Travel Gear
Years of living out of a carry-on turned into our own line of packing cubes and organizers.
Shop Tripped → - Then
We started teaching it
FBA EDU is our course and community for people who want to build an Amazon business of their own.
Visit FBA EDU → - Now
Home base: Summit County, Colorado
We live in the mountains of Summit County, Colorado, and still travel and film as much as ever, with Pepper along for the ride.
Watch the latest →
Why follow along?
We share the real details
- What it costReal prices, real budgets, and where the money actually went.
- What went wrongTourist traps, overpriced tours, and what we'd do differently.
- What was worth itThe trips, hotels and experiences we'd book again tomorrow.
Husband + wife
Meet your travel BFFs
Jack of all tradesMeet Tim
Raised by wolves? Maybe. Truly a jack of all trades, Tim has worked in over 10 career fields, including using his B.S. in Chemistry (Indiana University) to become a chemist at a huge pharmaceutical lab, not to be overshadowed by years of industrial plumbing in northern Illinois sitting in sewage tanks under McDonald's; purchasing high-fashion dog accessories for a catalog company; one year of high school teaching… the list goes on.
The best job would have been meeting Fin while running on-site parking for 30,000-person Warrior Dash events. Any girl who can work outside in the mud is worth pursuing. The persistence quickly turned into a well-known phrase among their friends, spoken by Tim at their engagement party: "if you can't woo them, wear them down."
- 3 things I bring on every trip
- Pepper, Fin and my Tripped tech pouch
- A recent favorite trip
- Skiing from Switzerland to Italy
- Go-to airport drink
- Gin and tonic: crispy and refreshing before or after a flight
Fluent in SpanishMeet Fin
Fin's name? Meet Allison Diemer. Called "Fin" by friends, her maiden name "Finney" has stuck with her through changing her name after marriage (to that guy on the left). Why is this 5'11" blonde fluent in Spanish, you ask? Starting in 3rd grade, performing skits in Spanish class grew into grad school in Applied Spanish Linguistics at Michigan State, which she quickly quit for a job opportunity at Red Frog Events in Chicago, where she met Tim.
From "just friends" coworkers picking up parking lot garbage at events, to relocating and hiring Tim into a corporate position, to falling into an office romance signing a "relationship form", to building a business together since 2017, Tim is always the best part of Fin's work day.
- 3 things I bring on every trip
- Tripped XL packing cubes, hats (to block the sun) and an open mind
- A recent favorite trip
- Swimming with humpback whales in Moorea
- Go-to airport drink
- Champagne in the lounge, of course!
And the boss
I'm Pepper.
As long as I'm not being left behind, I'm a happy girl!
On any given day, I will hop in the car with my parents with no idea what's next. I could just be going to the park for a nice walk. I could end up riding donkeys across the Rio into Mexico. I could end up spending the next two months road tripping across Italy.
That's how I roll, though. Ready for anything, anywhere, at any time. Don't forget to pack my frisbee.
PS: I didn't actually write this, because I'm a dog, but you probably already knew that.
We do more than travel
The businesses that fund the trips
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Questions, collabs or trip ideas?
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