WOW!! Succinct. I was pretty much going to say something like this myself....did SE Asia for 6 months and the only bit I didn't like was Bangkok and Phuket. (Didn't bother with Chang Mai) Rock climbing in Krabi was excellent though :)
I 'roughed it' through SE Asia and spent about £1000 in...
dude you already pay for prescriptions. And alot more than 50p per item. And this has been so for more than 10 years...in fact I can't remember free prescriptions and I'm 33.
Gann didn't trade.
Alexander Elder tracked down Gann's son (or grandson, can't remember) and interviewed him. He said that Gann made all of his money from vending tip sheets, newsletters and books, scraped by on that and died without a penny to his name.
3-4 day cycles HWSteele? Sound...