There's a site of early retirement articles and information going back to 1996, seems to be a collection of journeys more than one person's journey.
John Greaney is one of the pioneer ERs of the 1990s. He retired at the age of 38 and was a frequent poster on The Motley Fool's "Retire Early" forum. When The Fool started charging for access, he led the stampede over to his site. One of his ER spreadsheets was converted by another poster, Dory36, into FIRECalc v1.0.
John only posts a few times a year and has largely dropped out of the discussion boards. (I had to set an alert to notify me when he puts up his irregular posts.) His site's forum is also moribund, although he posts there once in a great while.
Doug Nordman has a blog and will apparently also be at FinCon12. He wrote a FI/RE book specifically geared toward service members that I literally just finished reading yesterday. It really isn't a bad book at all, and since it was published in May of last year, the stuff is still relevant. He really did his homework for this book, and that's definitely evident in the treasure trove of information given in the appendices. He even has a link to ERE in there.
Thanks! We wrote the first edition with the contributions of over 60 servicemembers & veterans. Billy & Akaisha Kaderli taught me a lot from their eBook & website. Even Bob Clyatt helped shred the first draft, and all the contributors proofread the chapters of the second draft.
I'm getting on the plane tomorrow night and I'll be at the Denver Grand Hyatt on Thursday afternoon-- hopefully before 3:30 PM. The first 12 people to see me will get a free copy of the book. I'll be the middle-aged balding surfer wearing an aloha shirt and a ponytail.
I'm working on the new chapters of the second edition, and of course the entire text of the first edition could use a refresh. Feel free to send me your thoughts.
BTW Bob Clyatt is post-FI, but he's not exactly blogging. Instead he's working with naked women all day:
http://www.clyattsculpture.com/Last, but certainly not least, Paul Terhorst. He keeps a blog to update us on his travels, which he's been doing for what must be about 30 years now. Much like Joe Dominguez, he worked in the finance industry and was one of the very first to realize how to actually play the game and win. I'll wager that even many Mustachians probably haven't heard of his book, but it was definitely one of Amazon's better suggestions. However, his book was written about 20 years ago (around same time as first run of YMOYL), so quite a few facts of life then are now different.
I found Paul's "Retire at 35" when I was 40 years old, and my first thought was "Damn, I'm five years behind!" Back when he wrote the book, Paul was keeping all their investments in CDs. Today they've moved to a more typical collection of index funds.
I liked his story of his "ER epiphany" during a career day when one of the kids asked exactly what he did all day at KPMG. When Paul realized that he spent most of his day talking on the phone and going to meetings, suddenly ER seemed like a much better idea.
They built a house and settled down about 6-8 years ago, but apparently the wanderlust caught back up with them. They've sold the place and started traveling again.