Chris Ruff · Current location: Da Nang

Live free.
Work online.

In 2018 I quit my office job with $3,000 saved. No experience working online. No idea what I was doing. Just knew I wanted to live abroad, travel, and find a way to work online. Since then I've built a simple solo business I can run from anywhere on earth, lived back and forth across Southeast Asia, through all the highs and lows. Now I document the whole thing and show you the way out.

Just the real path on how to do the thing.

Chris sitting on a curb in front of a Thai shop shutter, backpack on, Coke bottle beside him
Somewhere in Thailand
Chris walking a ridge trail at sunset in northern Thailand
Pai Canyon
Chris with arms wide open on a mountain summit
This is the whole point.
Chris buying a SIM card at a small village shop in Myanmar
Myanmar
Chris standing over green fields in Ireland
Ireland
Chris and his wife on a rocky overlook above an Irish valley
With the wife
Chris with a Karen hill tribe elder in northern Thailand
Hill tribe village