Prubangboy

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.

was my first classical music, around age 9. It just had its 100th birthday, good article in The NY Times arguing whether or not its to corny for modern tastes,

At her peak

When you want to listen to a good, long Leonard Cohen cut

You will def be hitting replay:

When it's indica chill time

The plucking starts a 1:12

Back out the life-threatening biking and I've done all that. Will do a foodie walking tour in Marrakesh. For a solo traveler, these little meetups provide a blast of sociability. It was $20 a day with a driver in Yangon. 3 days is about right for Yangon. Done Madagascar. Def some 5 star lemurs on offer, but you get murdered if you leave your resort at night. I say worth it if you have animal check list. Egypt, I would def do on a tour. The hassle-factor is supposed to be the worst; many funny YouTubes about it. Ethiopia is legendary for getting rocks thrown at you. Haiti was the ultimate stare-athon. Pakistan is a pricey tour where they'd also be keeping the starers at bay. Some back-breaking but stunning hikes on offer there. In Papua New Guinea, a tourist resort was ransacked, out of the blue. It's an unfathomable tribal thing that just wells up. Intrepid Tours has a thou a day visit to a festival in September. If it were only $500 a day, I might be willing to risk my life.

If you like the idea of dramatically solving the problems of good looking women, Thailand will never let you down. Actually, you're good to go anywhere on earth. It's just cheaper here, like the pad thai is.

Codependency is a real problem and worth a wiki. Short version: You're so into the drama of their problems that it lets you off the hook from addressing your own.

I told him if he wants to have a lot of sex with someone who's not that into him, he should just get married. But he likes a mix. São Paulo is semi-newly on the map for his ilk. But to the OP: If you don't like paying TODAY, this is the high water mark. You will like paying even less even 2 hours from now, let alone 2 weeks from now. You will prob want to leave her with some kind of kiss-off financial grant. Whatever number you have in mind, cut it in half to avoid future self-kicking.

My best friend has a lot of relationships that go south around the 4-6 month mark. Being the caring empath that he is, when he sees the bloom going off the rose, he front loads a lot of sex, partic anal. Usually, I urge people, "don't be that guy", but in your case.........

As per above, if he went to 50K, there's no way he can ever go back to 20K. It will be an endless war. I mean an endless war if he even attempts to trim it back to 45K. He has it, she knows it, and that settles it.

I booked 2 tours with Intrepid Travels, Morocco for 18 days, and Oman for 7. Morocco is tourist-hassle hell, but there's a lot I'd like to see there and guided program would keep that at bay. Oman independent travel is hard. For a lot of countries, 2 days per destination, times 5-6 places, a tour makes sense. India is a good example. Even places like France and England have mostly 2-3 day towns once you leave the capitol. Intrepid Tours is mid-priced, Lonely Planet ethos, and very socially conscious about dragging you to the women's weaving collective, which suits me fine. Going down that rabbit hole, I see that you can easily spend $1000 a day in Antartica and The South Seas. Safari's and Machu Picchu are also big $$$ draws. Wine drinking in Europe has a lot of offers. Papua New Guinea would be my ultimate get, but I am too spooked by the crime factor to pull the trigger. If money was no object, where would you go? What would make a tour palatable or a deal breaker for you? If you had a free $1,000 a day budget, and you had to spend it down to zero each day, how would you do it?