Time Machine: Pick a Year in you Would Go Back To

[2009]

So, you can pick any year to go back to.

 

Why year?

 

Why? 

[OneMoreFarang]

I had to think a few minutes about that one. And obviously one big question is under which conditions would I be able to go back? I.e. could I live my own life again with the knowledge from the future? Or just visit and watch?

 

One time which I would like to go back to visit is the time before mass tourism and before instant propagation of anything on the internet.

And then I would love to visit places how they really used to be before tourists took over. A good example is the Maya beach. I would love to visit it like this:

 

because now it is only available similar to this:

 

 

And that is the truth with many destinations. Rome, Venice, many mountains, all those places which are now full of tourists and tourist shops.

 

[HashBrownHarry]

1998 first visit to Thailand.

 

reason - can never relive those moments, good times.

[JustAnotherHun]

2011. I would be 10 years younger and would buy Bitcoin at 0.07 USD ????

[swissie]

How about decades? The 1950/60ties. Economic growth even benefitted the "little-people". Never happened in this form and shape ever since.

[swissie]

6 minutes ago, HashBrownHarry said:

1998 first visit to Thailand.

 

reason - can never relive those moments, good times.

Same here, also 1st in 1998. I truly thought that the Biblical "Garden of Eden" was moved to Pattaya.

[OneMoreFarang]

27 minutes ago, swissie said:

Same here, also 1st in 1998. I truly thought that the Biblical "Garden of Eden" was moved to Pattaya.

Yeah, the beach was a lot cleaner at that time. ???? 

[1FinickyOne]

1 hour ago, swissie said:

Same here, also 1st in 1998. I truly thought that the Biblical "Garden of Eden" was moved to Pattaya.

I guess since this is a Thailand forum, 1974 was my first time here... Pattaya was a dusty main street w/a few bungalows... Bangkok was quint - Sathorn Tai had a canal in the middle... it might be nice to revisit that era... 

[AndyAndyAndy]

2005 - 2014 were the peak years of the world, just give me 2013 again, don't even tell me lottery numbers or anything

[HashBrownHarry]

2 hours ago, swissie said:

Same here, also 1st in 1998. I truly thought that the Biblical "Garden of Eden" was moved to Pattaya.

I landed Phuket, had some time in Samui also, simply it was just stunning.

 

Great Ex rate to £ / no mobiles ( just coming in ) / girls much better attitude.......

[OneMoreFarang]

4 hours ago, HashBrownHarry said:

girls much better attitude.......

Because you were "innocent" and 20 years younger?

[Gsxrnz]

Fluxed if I know.  Maybe 12 November 1985.

[bkk6060]

None.  My life and focus is on the future.

People who constantly think about the past that I know are mostly "I wish" failures.

Edited November 29, 2021 by bkk6060

[OneMoreFarang]

14 minutes ago, bkk6060 said:

None.  My life and focus is on the future.

People who constantly think about the past that I know are mostly "I wish" failures.

Nobody said you have to go in time in your life to correct anything.

You could go back and participate in historic events. Or maybe have a chat with Einstein. 

[OneMoreFarang]

 

[thaibeachlovers]

10 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

I had to think a few minutes about that one. And obviously one big question is under which conditions would I be able to go back? I.e. could I live my own life again with the knowledge from the future? Or just visit and watch?

 

One time which I would like to go back to visit is the time before mass tourism and before instant propagation of anything on the internet.

And then I would love to visit places how they really used to be before tourists took over. A good example is the Maya beach. I would love to visit it like this:

 

because now it is only available similar to this:

 

 

And that is the truth with many destinations. Rome, Venice, many mountains, all those places which are now full of tourists and tourist shops.

 

James Bond Island was ruined by tourist junk stalls waaaaaay back in the early 90s. Tourism has been destroying places for a very long time.

As for Maya Bay, had Leo not ruined the movie, the bay would, IMO, still be a largely unknown place. Sadly, I doubt most of those people in the photo even saw the movie, and ironically Richard, the character Leo played in the movie, despised and loathed the tourist hordes.

[thaibeachlovers]

3 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Because you were "innocent" and 20 years younger?

Agree. Girls were just as annoying when I was young, but being lusty I tended to ignore that back then.

[OneMoreFarang]

3 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Agree. Girls were just as annoying when I was young, but being lusty I tended to ignore that back then.

For twenty minutes it's easy to concentrate on non verbal communication. ???? 

[thaibeachlovers]

1973, the year I arrived in Singapore. Best country outside Antarctica ( I know Antarctica isn't a country, but whatever ) I ever lived in, and back then it was a load of fun to live in, before it went sterile and boring.

I visited Thailand in 1974 and saw nothing I'd want to go back for. That changed some 15 years later, of course.

[StayinThailand2much]

I'd travel to 2019; awesome travel in New Zealand, Australia, and to Phuket.

[HashBrownHarry]

6 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Because you were "innocent" and 20 years younger?

Yes, i'm sure this is one of the reasons, i'm now very jaded with 20 years ++ more knowledge / experience in thailand.

[ColeBOzbourne]

Early 1800's to the days of wagon trains, horses, cowboys, indians and gunfights at the OK corral. Before telephones and the modern world as we know it arrived. If you want to visit Thailand, you can cross the ocean on a ship with sails. Now that's adventure!

[OneMoreFarang]

1 hour ago, ColeBOzbourne said:

Before telephones and the modern world as we know it arrived.

Personally I think the arrival of telephones was not really a problem. I.e. when I was the first time on a holiday in Thailand I didn't call anybody - that was way too expensive. A postcard, which often arrived after the return, was enough. And nobody panicked because they didn't have any news from you for a couple of month.

 

[chicowoodduck]

On 11/28/2021 at 11:56 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

Yeah, the beach was a lot cleaner at that time. ???? 

The beach is always been clean, live wit it! ????????????

[thaibeachlovers]

16 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Personally I think the arrival of telephones was not really a problem. I.e. when I was the first time on a holiday in Thailand I didn't call anybody - that was way too expensive. A postcard, which often arrived after the return, was enough. And nobody panicked because they didn't have any news from you for a couple of month.

 

Indeed. I was always bemused by the young tourists that had to check in with mummy as soon as they arrived, especially the ones that spent the entire train trip from Swampy to city center on the phone and not looking at the view outside the train. One wonders why they bothered leaving home in the first place.

Used to be that we enjoyed not being in contact for a few weeks, other than by letters.

 

In the next war, will they be calling mummy from the battlefield?

[ChrisKC]

On 11/28/2021 at 11:11 PM, OneMoreFarang said:

I had to think a few minutes about that one. And obviously one big question is under which conditions would I be able to go back? I.e. could I live my own life again with the knowledge from the future? Or just visit and watch?

 

One time which I would like to go back to visit is the time before mass tourism and before instant propagation of anything on the internet.

And then I would love to visit places how they really used to be before tourists took over. A good example is the Maya beach. I would love to visit it like this:

 

because now it is only available similar to this:

 

 

And that is the truth with many destinations. Rome, Venice, many mountains, all those places which are now full of tourists and tourist shops.

 

Don't' need to back any year, you could go next week while covid is on. In the last two years i have been to a few islands withbeautiful deserted and pristine beaches

[BritManToo]

18 hours ago, ColeBOzbourne said:

Early 1800's to the days of wagon trains, horses, cowboys, indians and gunfights at the OK corral. Before telephones and the modern world as we know it arrived. If you want to visit Thailand, you can cross the ocean on a ship with sails. Now that's adventure!

I'd imagine it would be mainly boredom with the occasional bouts of extreme fear, illness and hardship thrown in. No music, no movies, no TV shows, no books, no women = no thanks.

Edited November 30, 2021 by BritManToo

[LookChang]

23 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

For twenty minutes it's easy to concentrate on non verbal communication. ???? 

The first time I came in Thailand in 1986, I was so surprised and seduced that I used to spend twenty minutes with two or three different girls every day... ????

[Surasak]

19 hours ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Personally I think the arrival of telephones was not really a problem. I.e. when I was the first time on a holiday in Thailand I didn't call anybody - that was way too expensive. A postcard, which often arrived after the return, was enough. And nobody panicked because they didn't have any news from you for a couple of month.

 

If that is your first recollection of a telephone, you are not as old as I assumed. Try one of these little beauties, which were in mass use when I was knee high to a grasshopper.

[OneMoreFarang]

25 minutes ago, Surasak said:

If that is your first recollection of a telephone, you are not as old as I assumed. Try one of these little beauties, which were in mass use when I was knee high to a grasshopper.

I am not really sooooo old. ????

I chose that picture for a reason. Because it represents (for me) the time before mobile phones became popular but not really old like the phone you show in your picture. I.e. around 1990 people still used those rotary phones and some like i.e. my parents, used it only for important calls like i.e. to a doctor. Chitchat was something people did in person and not on the phone.