My retirement search through Southeast Asia, and the practical guides it's turning into along the way.
Read the story See the guidesI'm Charlie. I'm turning 60 this December and I still haven't decided anything about retirement. Not where, not how, not on what. So instead of guessing, I will be finding out, living in a handful of Southeast Asian cities for a month or more each, across Thailand, Vietnam, and the Philippines, long enough to see past the tourist version of each place. Which cities, and which country in the end, are still open, and they get decided on camera as the videos go up, not before. Everything here, the videos, the guides, this site, comes out of that search. I'm posting it as it happens, before I know how it ends, not cleaning it up afterward.
Why "Sixty, Unsettled," where the search stands right now and what's still open, and the real-time diary this whole project started as. The boring parts stay in. No highlight reel.
Everything I learn along the way turns into an actual number. Vietnam is out now, on Kindle.
Decisions and numbers, and the reasoning behind both, written as things happen instead of recapped once they're already settled.