LaosLover

Greendog cafe has a good range of bongs, screens etc.

Last vacation, just before Covid. We went Port Antonio, Jamaica. You can drum with the Rasta's. They're pretty much going 24/7. Like $50 for the cab, $50 for the Jam-men, another $50 for a big bag of pot.

My fave version of this butt-shaker. A classic out the door gym motivator He out-Disco'd disco. A party you wish you were at. Just relentless.

I am so much richer than my parents. I recall my father holding up a small leather-crafting tool and saying: "Someday Son, this awl will be your's".

Who here has done a good, long chant themselves? On any meditation retreat schedule I pray for the line: Chanting 8-9PM (optional). Chanting = tedium. I dispute that the mere vibration of the words is doing me some good. Still, there's no top tier meditation teachers who haven't logged at least a couple of hundred hours of chant-time. In Thailand, chanting is solely for merit or ancestor-honoring. They chant in Pali with a translation beneath it.

The guy next door plays this chant singer about 12 hours a day. I can even sometimes pick out one stray tune from another thru the thin condo wall. Sort of like Enya without a band. Oprah's favorite chanter, BTW:

One fifth the price delivered -with free samples thrown in. He brings over a vaporizer. It's like having a pot concierge. Historically, I have used the sacred music (practically the first western music) of Hildegarde of Bingen to cover up loud sex in hotel rooms. Here's 9 hours of it by Sequentia in case you're having an orgy. What the Eyes Wide Shut soundtrack wanted to be:

I played this Gregorian chant EDM record for my pot delivery guy. He wanted more.

You can get unlimited B+ falafels at The Chabad Center near Khao San. 100 baht, many Israeli women traveling in pairs. But the cart lady in Pai is still #1. Hummus Chiang Mai -lets do it.

I'll do you one better: -Best anti-war song ever.

For me, a lack of a beach is no detriment. I want to walk on the beach or eat on a pier maybe 4 times a year. I really like Hua Hin for that reason -a beach place for the beach-avoidant. Cha-Am seems to be another barely-beach worth checking out. Phuket would interest me like The Dark Side of Pattaya interests me; it's big messy shmush of East Meets West, currently enduring the stress of change. Where I live, the Chinese Invasion is broadly regarded as no biggie. We're going to Ko Lipe this year, and we def want 4 days based in The Old Town for a proper drive around the Island. Phuket is its own thing. I know little about it.

Polo is the better shirt (partic for fatties) over all, but La Coste has the colors. These shirts last. Usually 2-3 years and then another couple for gym usage. A Century Department store shirt is good for a year. An MBK bootleg, about 20 washes.

Does shagging white women in Thailand deserve its own thread? I'm looking at you Bob Smith.

I live the life of Richie Rich-Manhattanite right now. I have a huge apartment with a great view, have a maid, laundry service, and Grabcab, which is almost like a private car service. If I ping them from the 9th floor, they're always waiting outside by the time I get downstairs. I can't believe the magic carpet that is Grab. I have a personal trainer, an acupuncturist, a pot delivery person. I can eat anything under the sun, any time I want it, either out or in. Very nice people deliver bottled water and iced tea to me from 7/11 at a moment's whim. I can have any medical need sorted out in 2 hours. Yeah, it's great. Like being a 2-week millionaire forever, but without the awkwardness in the morning before the buffet.

Nespresso capsules seem more expensive than cocaine. I'm in the market too, so if anyone can tell me why they cost more than lovely Starbucks capsules, I'd be curious.

I wear the polo shirts with the little alligator on it. Relatedly, I saw an alligator in a store asking if they had a shirt with an over-paying sucker on it.

Fair assessment. No Mae Hong Son-love? Went 4 times. Once to meditate. Prob the nicest dining scene with everyone selling a burnt fish next to that lake with all the Shan temples. You can see non-touristic long neck people, just out and about.

Been to Phuket Old Town once for 3 days 20 years. I hate the beach, but Phuket Island is def a place that could fill 30 days. Does an island count as a town tho? Sure, why not? Beachwise, I'd be more inclined to the low rent old hippie charm of Ko Chang to kill 30 days. Those long ago Germans are probably walking with Zimmer frames by now. One had dreadlocks. A white woman with dreadlocks was a top sexual bucket list item of mine. Who else here can claim that same sweet success?

Great hospital. Like Bumrungrad for 20% off. If you were living in Trump Trash USA, you couldn't afford it. He wants to kill you. You want him to kill you. I'm good with that, even tho, technically speaking, I don't actually want to kill you.

Kyoto is now a huge Chinese destination. But go two stops on the subway from the train station and it will be like you remember it. Train station sushi or tempura -it dares not be great with that footfall at stake. The best of both dishes were at Kyoto station, even above 100 year old specialists.

In the states, a man cave almost always should be re-labled as a "I do not have sex with my wife anymore, so I have this useless stuff to compensate"-cave

Then for me, there's only one one month choice: New York. Loved long stays in New Orleans, Paris, Amsterdam, London, and Kyoto. But if I add 'em all up together, they're still falling a little short.

Not enough of a downtown to walk around in. Ubon was the only Issan town where I fond that little grid of pedstrian-friendly streets. Khorat inside their wall, was OK-ish. Phitsolunak is high up the 'why am I here?-list. You got your Buddha foundry, your mosquito clogged meal on a riverboat, and not much else.

Yeah, sure. But like people come here for cheap girlfriends? We're here for cheap sushi and 5* meals. Silom is more green as a neighborhood-ish than Suk Road, the other food Mecca. Nonthaburi, with the ability to subway and riverboat in to downtown and then be further out for some quiet entices. But Nimman may be too hard to ever leave. For low traffic/great dining, it's as good as Soho or Greenwich Village

All you can eat dim sum at the Shangrila. We thought the value was def there, but a lot of the dim sum was samey. But that's sort of dim sum: you have your shrimp globule and you have your pork greasy thing. Also, no rolling carts, you order Ala carte and it takes its time coming out. Wouldn't do it again (since I don't love dim sum), but for a belly-cram, def worth a try. https://www.shangri-la.com/chiangmai/shangrila/dining/restaurants/china-kitchen/