Prubangboy

Yeah, I never get this thinking, you save $200 on rent and 10 baht on a pineapple. And then you just drink yourself to death while waiting for you wife to turn off the sex.

This one meanders, but is very deep. Just her and her piano. Def my fave cover of all time.

In the aughts, they toured relentlessly. In Suffolk, you could see them 2-4 times in the same year. Motorhead and Bad Manners were also hard tourers with 2nd big night often added to the marquee of the Ipswich Regent. I went with a pal to help do a linoleum laying job. It was Rick Parfait's house. Nice guy, was making his own fry up.

His Kahphaeng Pet obsession continues. Last year, we laughed about a monger blogger who called KP a secret wonderland of karaoke bars and disco's, teeming with (as yet) untouched good girls. He was game. If he went, we would have heard about it. 'Can't fault a guy who loves Thailand and wants to live in Thailand for asking questions about Thailand. He asks about places where the costs are low and the girls might be friendly. It's a noble but possibly quixotic quest. How is it worse than flogging Cambodia versus PI for the millionth time? I like when someone in Roi Et tosses out a few deets, even tho all the nowheresville's sound the same: "Great wet market, bad pizza, the farang bar closed during Covid". Short version: A done to death topic is still better than looking in here and finding no new topics.

Asian Hotel -been in some films, beautifully ugly and they have the train link to the airport (without leaving the hotel). Elvis act on Sat night. Muslim area, so double the chill and meat on a stick factor. A sprinkling of Time Out-type restaurants. Like, 2 stops down from Ari.

...And also drifting into need a car-land. Ari is my most likely eventual Bangkok relocation. It's like Nimman in Bangkok.

I'm an Ubon fan. Love that long train ride. Nong Khai second (another nice train ride), Nan third (great bus ride). The rest are a bit blah, but to play: Udon (the only soapie I ever went to), Khaephang by dint of being in the beautiful but unvisited middle, Korat for at least trying to be a downscale Chiang Mai, and Khon Kaen for being a traffic circle in search of a town. I want to see what the towns south of Ayuthaya on the train line are like for a possible relo up the road. I read a thread here about Nonthaburi and every poster had moved two stops north to something else-buri.

So dramatic and romantic

Love me some Joss

Lotta Beth Hart love here. I like this slow burn cover of a Bobby Blue Bland wailer

Australians hoping that the US scales back its military impulses are truly turkeys voting for Christmas.

The Sanctuary fetches $400 a night, so commercialism won. Lovely resort of the rich hippie type. Was last there in '97 prior. You have to really take advantage of the yoga or book a colon blow out to justify it.

Done it. A lot of nature, very green Himalaya's, so-so temples, the famous town with all the penis paintings. Basically, a classier Nepal. For Little Buddha-like exotica, Mustang and Dolpo were better. Sikhm too. Food: the national dish is home fries with a lot of chili peppers. People: as cheery as advertised, zero interest in you. Nothing to buy but nice incense. Currently 50% off. Problem: $1,600 round trip flight from BKK on government monopoly Druk Air. And like all tours, they charge you for a full day on the last day when all they're doing is feeding you breakfast and pushing you out the door.

They're staring at me. I have a key card. And can also tell them where to get one. The lobby office, of course, but many need help grasping that concept.

Living dead central in a tourist location has been good for our boredom. We're around people having a mega-great day, all day, every day. They are the 100% opposite of bored. Our building is about 90% Air BnB and we can spot the first day people. The slow turn of the head all around, to take it all in as they leave the condo. It's a little contagious.

Sorry, but if I have to pick between Mr Magoo and Pol Pot, I have to hold my nose and do my duty.

Would love to hear about your year there. The most expensive Antartica tours involve flying in and boating back. The Drake Passage is rough sailing to do both ways. If you want to really burn money, The Falkland Islands add-on is only available above a thou a day, Georgia Island is another premium place since they can guarantee proper penguin swarms, Machu Picchu and Antartica as a package is about $20K on the cheap side. An Igauzo Falls add-on is only $2K more for 3 days. The North Pole costs about double of The South Pole. It's all about the add-ons. Kayaking? $200 more. Per day. Nature photog lessons are about the same. Hot air balloons are the craziest mark up in tour-dom. Mono-priced fixed at $500 worldwide.

I'm doing the Ping River cruise soon and will report back. These days, it's two hours downstream to a wooden farm house who's been phoned ahead to to have some Khao Soi noodles ready. Reviews say it's top tier soup. The see a bunch of stuff-aspect def appeals. I generally don't care one whit about crumbly old ruins, but if they're spoon-fed to me and I'll do 3 other things that day, I can see why the tour mark up is worth it. It needs to be a ping and pong-type place like China or France with a lot of compelling destinations. It doesn't work for Thailand since there's not a lot for a tourist between Bangkok and Chiang Mai. It's about $300 a day for a SouthEast Asian tour that hits those two, Ha Long Bay, Luang Prubang, and Angkor Wat in 16 days. A lot of timid trust fund kids take the SEA tours, partic Americans. These are the people who've moved up from flash packer hostels. I stayed at The Sanctuary Resort on Ko Phagnan, on which The Beach was based. So that was another hippie level up. Alternative travel is a broad church and a huge market. Lonely Planet changed the world. In Oman, there will be pretty much nothing. They're selling their nothingness. Who goes on a nothing-tour? Anyway, it sold out.

If he had the brains that god gave him, he'd beg his ex-girlfriend to beg for the cash instead. There was a guy begging for money for his really poor quality guest house, waaaay off the beach during Covid. Visibly sweating from the stress and hyperventilating. This guy needs more observable misery to keep me watching. He seems merely mildly peturbed to be losing his dream. Why is it always like an Al Queda hostage video with just a talking head in a small room?

Worse: Cooking school. Twice. We actually owned a tajine pot back home. Bottom line: Have always loved Moroccan art and music, partic. the Gnawa music. We get a Gnawa show out in the dunes. 'Can't complain. At those prices, those will be some semi-name Gnawa. Tour tops out at 15 people. Liberal urbanites, all. It's the flavor I escaped from. It will be a little weird to be back among them. There's a lot of shopping too. That's when I'll go off to eat. What's the diff between 2* and 5* Moroccan food? About twenty bucks.

Old reggae was heavy on the covers. Hope some good 'uns get posted here. I prob played this 100 times

When people are really awful and obtuse, and I am not at their mercy, I sort of love it. Just like I enjoy a few laughs here. Like when I went on the cruise filled with Black Trumpies? Def a good time. The KISS KRUISE was another wallow in stupidity. I'll get the gentle kick under the table when I troll too much. We opted out of the camel ride. Citing animal rights. Which everyone will believe with a straight face.

Def agree. My wife loves this kind of stuff. I always fob the small talk duties off on her. I'm about to find out how long 18 days can be. I'm doing Oman solo. $500 extra for a room alone? No prob.

"B-B-But you don't knowwwww mee." Another time traveler from an AOL chat board circa '97.

It's like you can't say no black women either. Woke, shmoke, it just doesn't fit the tone of today. As per data, large black women are at the absolute bottom of the dating pyramid; even homely Indian guys are pulling in comparison, or midgets. Thai Trans looking to date an ancient whitie like the OP? Gotta be in the low single digits. Why does he want to loudly proclaim his exclusion of people who would franticly step into busy traffic to avoid him? Why rub it in on dating's losers? Let their constant and soul crushing rejection just go unstated.