drive 6 hours - sit in a hot tub with grandma, strip down to your boxers and sit in some water.

drive 12 hours - go to funeral, stand around for hours bored, come back

drive 12 hours - go to temple, walk around in 42 degrees heat, come back

drive 8 hours - go to see family, stare at the floor, come back

 

Those Thais sure know how to have fun! 

 

But I did choose to partake in one:  'Go to see land, 8 hour drive, look at land 30 minutes, 8 hours drive back'.  It's the one with the least amount of people.

 

How about you?  Did you manage to avoid all the boring family trips?

2 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

How about you?  Did you manage to avoid all the boring family trips?

We didn’t go anywhere for Xmas. Will be going to the wife’s village for a few days on the 1st. I will have the last word on what and where we do and go.

6 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

But I did choose to partake in one:  'Go to see land, 8 hour drive, look at land 30 minutes, 8 hours drive back'.  It's the one with the least amount of people.

Next time be the leader, not a following partaker 

5 hours ago, Chris Daley said:

drive 6 hours - sit in a hot tub with grandma, strip down to your boxers and sit in some water.

drive 12 hours - go to funeral, stand around for hours bored, come back

drive 12 hours - go to temple, walk around in 42 degrees heat, come back

drive 8 hours - go to see family, stare at the floor, come back

 

Those Thais sure know how to have fun! 

 

But I did choose to partake in one:  'Go to see land, 8 hour drive, look at land 30 minutes, 8 hours drive back'.  It's the one with the least amount of people.

 

How about you?  Did you manage to avoid all the boring family trips?

So many issues between you, your family and Thai people. There seems to be a common denominator.

 

For me, being part of a family is great. Sure, sometimes they want to do something that I'm not too keen on but, it works both ways.

5 hours ago, novacova said:

We didn’t go anywhere for Xmas. Will be going to the wife’s village for a few days on the 1st. I will have the last word on what and where we do and go.

Next time be the leader, not a following partaker 

Oh dear.

 

 

I distributed small cash gifts to my GF's relatives in the village, took her grandchildren out to lunch. The amount of food they can eat is impressive.

 

That is the extent of my participation, I can't be bothered going out on New Year's Eve. Too many lunatics on the roads.

Yes, I avoided the trip. I live with them.

A few bottles of my home made vino, and I am everyone's friend

Not a bad one.  8 hours in the car.  One stop at a temple, which involved 'throwing money at an elephant statue'.  Religious people disgust me. When we got to the land, I had to plant 9 banana plants and 1 mango tree in 40 degrees heat with a broken half-moon spade. We then had to get the water from a river.

 

I was with a group of women, so obviously, someone typed "beach" into the sat nav and hit go. We ended up at a resort and had to reverse the entire stretch of the road back out again.

 

In typical female style, nothing was planned, so they just picked something on the phone and hit go. We ended up searching for and skipping 4 restaurants before giving up. There's a reason why women's and men's chess are separate events.

 

All the toilets were broken, so I sat there covered in feces for the 8 hours back home.

On 12/30/2024 at 1:31 PM, Chris Daley said:

Did you manage to avoid all the boring family trips?

 

I don't find trips with my family particularly boring, thank you very much. Certainly nowhere near as boring as reading threads on here originated by posters complaining about boring family trips! 

1 hour ago, Chris Daley said:

Not a bad one.  8 hours in the car.  One stop at a temple, which involved 'throwing money at an elephant statue'.  Religious people disgust me. When we got to the land, I had to plant 9 banana plants and 1 mango tree in 40 degrees heat with a broken half-moon spade. We then had to get the water from a river.

 

I was with a group of women, so obviously, someone typed "beach" into the sat nav and hit go. We ended up at a resort and had to reverse the entire stretch of the road back out again.

 

In typical female style, nothing was planned, so they just picked something on the phone and hit go. We ended up searching for and skipping 4 restaurants before giving up. There's a reason why women's and men's chess are separate events.

 

All the toilets were broken, so I sat there covered in feces for the 8 hours back home.

Reads like you miss the country you left.........😰

4 minutes ago, OJAS said:

 

I don't find trips with my family particularly boring, thank you very much. Certainly nowhere near as boring as reading threads on here originated by boring posters complaining about boring family trips! 

Spot on.............😉

3 minutes ago, transam said:

Reads like you miss the country you left.........😰

Ah, yes, the Land Of The Unbroken Toilet known as the UK - if you can find one, that is!

Yes, at my age if I do not want to do something, I don't. Tough if others don't like it.

I faked a toothache to avoid a 10 hour drive to Isan nowhere, even three days of it is torture unless there is a concert on. If you do have to go I recommend good earplugs and sleeping pills

55 minutes ago, OJAS said:

Certainly nowhere near as boring as reading threads on here originated by posters complaining about boring family trips! 

 

I guess you missed the other 3 or 4 exiting threads the OP started today.

1 hour ago, OJAS said:

 

I don't find trips with my family particularly boring, thank you very much. Certainly nowhere near as boring as reading threads on here originated by posters complaining about boring family trips! 

Well look do us ALL a favour ....and P off !!  

25 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

I guess you missed the other 3 or 4 exiting threads the OP started today.

Exiting? 

I know your nearly 80 

I was excused for not going on the long packed-car family trip.

Bribery at work.

1 hour ago, proton said:

I faked a toothache to avoid a 10 hour drive to Isan nowhere, even three days of it is torture unless there is a concert on. If you do have to go I recommend good earplugs and sleeping pills

You have to do that, man-up chap, show them who's boss..............

20 minutes ago, georgegeorgia said:

Exiting? 

I know your nearly 80 

 

Hey my friend glad to read your insulting comments again. You must have access to a PC in the psychiatric ward you are living in.

 

1 hour ago, transam said:

Reads like you miss the country you left.........😰

Reads like he should stay under his bridge.

3 hours ago, Chris Daley said:

All the toilets were broken, so I sat there covered in feces for the 8 hours back home.

That should get you out of the next trip.

 

You sound a bit delicate

If you have to drive 6-12 hours you living in the middle of nowhere.

Move.

There! 

I solved all your holiday problems (according to you).🍓

On 12/30/2024 at 1:31 PM, Chris Daley said:

drive 6 hours - sit in a hot tub with grandma, strip down to your boxers and sit in some water.

drive 12 hours - go to funeral, stand around for hours bored, come back

drive 12 hours - go to temple, walk around in 42 degrees heat, come back

drive 8 hours - go to see family, stare at the floor, come back

 

Those Thais sure know how to have fun! 

 

But I did choose to partake in one:  'Go to see land, 8 hour drive, look at land 30 minutes, 8 hours drive back'.  It's the one with the least amount of people.

 

How about you?  Did you manage to avoid all the boring family trips?

I wear the pants in my house so don't do all that nonsense.

A year ago my old lady's boys took me on a two day trip. Paid for the hotel and food.stops and did all the driving. This was the first time in over sixty five years that  I did not have to do any organizing. There was ten of us and I enjoyed the trip.

I couldn't face a 7 or 8 hour drive so I flew from Don Muang to Khon Kaen.  I'd booked a nice resort room ten minutes from the family home with proper toilet & hot shower.  The land was only five minutes away.  It was fish-harvest time so a huge lily pond was drained and the stranded fish were scooped up in their dozens to slowly suffocate whilst being salted/filleted.  I endured three days of incessant cock-crowing and dramatic dog-barking so my GF could see her year old grand-daughter.  Besides the airfares & car hire, it cost me three restaurant meals for seven people.  I did this out of love for my GF who takes care of me the rest of the year.

8 minutes ago, mikebell said:

I couldn't face a 7 or 8 hour drive so I flew from Don Muang to Khon Kaen.  I'd booked a nice resort room ten minutes from the family home with proper toilet & hot shower.  The land was only five minutes away.  It was fish-harvest time so a huge lily pond was drained and the stranded fish were scooped up in their dozens to slowly suffocate whilst being salted/filleted.  I endured three days of incessant cock-crowing and dramatic dog-barking so my GF could see her year old grand-daughter.  Besides the airfares & car hire, it cost me three restaurant meals for seven people.  I did this out of love for my GF who takes care of me the rest of the year.

Exactly , sometimes we do things we don’t want to but do them because we love our partners and respect the things they do for us.

 

If the op detests so much these road trips then he should have just paid a local to drive his ladies around so he could stay at home and relax.

Although, the op sounds a little helpless and probably didn’t want to stay alone ….. and suffer the shame of his ladies coming back to find him wallowing in his own faeces !!

Yes. I stayed back in Australia for the Christmas and New Year holidays, on my own. Wonderfully peaceful, but I do miss my darling wife. Will be back in Bangkok with her again next week.