Honestly, when I saw the subject of your post I thought you were going to share the location of a literal awsome roller coaster!  

Although we're pretty financially disciplined we do spend money on traveling quite a bit, as I'm a pretty big roller coaster nerd.

All on the same roller coaster, but each individual car can bounce a little this way or that.

mission beach has the roller coaster and there is a park in Mission beach with games, etc..

Quite a roller coaster.

Sounds like you have multiple cycles running in your area so as the roller coaster reaches the loading platform - you can get out of one ride and get onto another at a more opportune investing point of entry.

Deal flow is always a roller coaster ride.

Its been quite the roller-coaster ride to say the very least.I have also been in the process of building a local Meetup group of BP members and that has been a great experience.

I'm not willing to take the 40-45% hit by withdrawing money from IRA and I don't want to deal with all the headaches of investing in RE via an IRA, easy decision to leave it in the market.The market is an emotional roller coaster, it's gets much easier with experience but it definitely has a small affect on my daily mood.  

With crazy high interest rates being driven by global deflation and here to stay for a while, expert a roller coaster in real estate every 18 years.