Slow Travel Letters

The honest version of starting over.

If you are quietly running the numbers on whether a different kind of life is actually possible, this is the letter for that.

31 years in sales. Made redundant at 47. Left the UK with my wife and no salary. Now living between Malaysia and Thailand, building income from scratch and documenting every part of it.

Every Friday I send one letter. What happened that week — the money, the positions, the decisions, the reality. No performance. Just what's actually going on.

I don't entirely know what I'm doing yet. That's the point. This is the letter where I work it out.

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The monthly numbers. What the options account is doing. The stuff that doesn't fit a YouTube video.

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What's in the letter
  • The monthly numbers
    Income in. Spending out. Runway. Real figures from a life being built without a salary in Southeast Asia. March: £1,611 in, £1,351 out. That's what this looks like.
  • What options trading actually looks like
    Cash-secured puts. Covered calls. What I'm holding, what I'm watching, what went wrong. Not theory. Live positions with real money.
  • The stuff that doesn't fit YouTube
    Too specific. Too small. Too honest for a public video. The immigration queue. The months that were tight. The thinking behind the decisions.
  • Life in Malaysia and Thailand
    Not the highlight reel. The everyday reality of slow living abroad — what it costs, what it feels like, and what the numbers actually look like month to month.
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Every Friday. One letter. The real numbers from the week.

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