1 hour ago, thaibeachlovers said:

Syphilis and gonorrhea are not free to cure.

N.H.S.  

3 hours ago, blackshadow said:

what the !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

what is this junk all about ??????????????????

bad acid trip me thinks.

4 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

I've never met a real hippy, or even a pretend hippy. I put them in the same category as unicorns and fairies.

 

Didn't the 60's ones all sell out and become stockbrokers or suchlike?

After breaking loose from the cuckoo's nest , I took off in my old van with my motorcycle and dog... and after a few years landed in Cali fornia with 25 dollars left to my name.   Sold fruit from the valley on the streets of SF  (one "home delivery"  was quite a stop) .  Next i would start a coffee shop selling cappichinos  and a lttle herb on the side.   my bed was in the back of the shop . Those 6 years were quite the adventure..... a hippies dream.   

Selling the shop gave me funds to travel.... Asia, SriLanka,  India up to Katmandu .   These were the days when one was forced to live and learn.  No googles and internet shops and spending days swiping those stupid phones.

A few entrepreneurial ventures led to some more cash.   Cash can make you a slave... or it can allow you the freedom to keep those hippie values.  Peace and love ...... and do your own thing and kiss the sky.

Thailand was travelling around on dirt roads on a Honda 125 .   Staying in 30 baht rooms.  On the Road.... Asian style.    Even hippies get lonely and i tried the family game..... though i moved countless times with the wife and child .    That period too would pass ....

My fifties were my "second youth".   You only live once.   All those that stick to unhappy situations out of loneliness or fear of losing material things  are destined to live lives of quiet desperation.

I have now moved once again .  Age does not change the hippie in me..... but it does entail a scaling down .    It is a good time to live and die .   Hell,  the world sucks.   People are such a drag..   close minded and fearful of missing their Swensons ice cream .   Critical thinking and discussion longggg dead.    

I am the Last Hippie.  Pepsi called me and wanted me to do a commercial for 22 million dollars.  I told them where to shove it.     

Peace.          especially to guys like TBL .     And a shout out to Sipi.    To those who put sad emojis on my posts...... try the laughing one.      Love

 

10 hours ago, thaibeachlovers said:

these days, you got nothing else.

 

Well, you finally said something I can agree with, though I'd delete the last word to be completely correct. I live in a world full of BS.

 

I've never met a real hippy, or even a pretend hippy. I put them in the same category as unicorns and fairies.

 

Didn't the 60's ones all sell out and become stockbrokers or suchlike?

More than likely - just as every other well intended era dilutes itself.

Yet, with each passing generation, all seems to becoming less real.

Most are on Koh Phangan. Seems they abandoned the Khao San Road area after the mindless authorities pasteurized and homogenized it. 

Days past ... an era gone, loved, missed ????????