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God luck, Chai!

This is spot on!

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Please,please,please,please and please!

I thought I’d put this placeholder thread for now until my current trip is finished, which is going to be soon.  The good news: after a rough few months after Brazil opened up to the world last July, where the Rio saunas were ghost towns with few boys, and even fewer clients, I’d like to report that Rio is back. Probably not as “back” as it was pre-pandemic, with the wall-to-wall muscle in 117, and crazy parties in 202, but “good enough” to spend time in. As it is, the picking are slim in the pandemic, and I am thankful that there are options in Rio at all.
This is because as Brazil opened up to foreign visitors at the end of July 2020, I found that Sao Paulo was the place to be, with even boys from Rio flocking to Lagoa because the tourists numbers was still low in Rio.  As 2020 drew a close however, Rio gathered strength, and now, with the city of Sao Paulo’s numerous openings and closings and Fragata, the once-promising alternative to Lagoa opening to some fan-fare, and then slowly slid into a whimper to its (temporary?) closure in December, I was also able to visit other Brazilian cities with the new boyfriend, as chronicled in the previous thread I started last year, and still need to complete.
In this thread, I’ll report about my experiences in Rio over the holidays, and in the 3 months after. And since I spent the New Year in Fortaleza, I’ll report about that too.
Putting aside the obvious horrible stuff that has happened during the pandemic (so far), I’d say that I was able to take advantage of the low tourist numbers, discounted hotel and AirBNB prices, and the bargain basement airfare to Sao Paulo and Rio from the USA. This is a unique point of our history, and oddly enough due to the “work from home” mode that the majority of us have adopted to mitigate the spread of the COVID, I was able to spend the majority of my (post-July 2020) time, in Brazil.  And I won’t expand on the mountain of risks I have been taking (and continue to take) with venturing out to this country, I have been lucky enough to have kept my health, and my sanity, in check. I hope it keeps up that way.
So here I am, in the last leg of the trips I’ve taken that will be chronicled in this trip report.  This trip was made possible because last Janaury, I was able to book three speculative flights into the future, all at $1200 business roundtrip, not knowing if I can make all the flights in the dates I’ve booked them at, but since the prices are so low, and with the elimination of change fees at least this year, I’d say the risk of losing my money from these bookings are low. 
But it now March 2021, and the second wave (third? fourth?) is upon Brazil, which is extra concerning because even with all the lessons and trials we all have learned and endured in this pandemic, Brazil meanwhile, seems to have regressed somewhat, back to a scary time in the pandemic. Regardless, I am still soldiering on and flying into to the belly of the beast, so the question was just what Brazilian city will I go to next. I see city after city announce their lockdown plans, and mine and BF’s plans to spend a week in Sao Paulo, has been wrecked by Sao Paulo’s super duper serious pandemic phase:

And Lagoa of course has to comply, and is closed at least to the 30th of March:


But Rio de Janeiro, being Rio de Janeiro, even with some sort of lockdown, is still semi-open. There is just something about Rio that really can’t get shut down. With notices from Lion’s and 202 on their Instagram, and the notice at the door at 117:




Which means diverting my flight, and AirBNB rentals, to a stay in Rio. Armed with my RT-PCR test, I took the United Sao Paulo flight from Houston, which was half-empty, and then the flight from Sao Paulo to Santos Dumont in Rio was filled to the gills.  And the ultimate sign of the times was a dedicated COVID testing area at the mezannine floor at International terminal at Terminal 3 in Guarulhos. And the place looked busy:

Another sign of the times: greeting me in Rio was a cute masked Azul mascot:

though the mask does look ill-fitting.  Speaking of masks, everyone in the airport was wearing masks, and the Uber ride had me and the driver wear masks the whole ride, but there was a lot of mask-less people milling around the streets of Copacabana where my AIrBNB was.
So please be patient, I will continue this thread when this current trip is over (and it’ll be soon).
Next, a December to remember.

Whoops, I guess I am now one of the guilty as charged ... 

Protocols still have to be adhered to: the wearing of masks, distancing, and the continuance of one's washing her/his hands.  Thus, we ARE NOT COMPLETELY FREE.

Go to a nice restaurant with friends and have a great meal. Im so tired of takeaways and cooking. Then plan a nice holiday for a month, somewhere warm and dry  

we can only hope he did not turn straight and abandoned us altogether

This past December I had a chance to spend three weeks in Greece and one week in Turkey. I’ll write about my Athens and Greece experience in another post when time allows. 
I had travelled much of Turkey several times before with tour groups but had very little luck with finding guys. My one bit of luck was on a previous expedition where I was in a hot air balloon over the Cappadocian mountains with a sexy Turkish balloon guide. When he found out that I was single, he started rubbing his dick. I was able to play with it a few minutes until we had to land with the other balloons. Had a been a little quicker and started on take-off, I could have given a blow job to a Turk as the sun rose. Alas, those are missed opportunities. My most previous visit to Turkey has been to Istanbul for one week about one year ago. I had one bad and one good experience. 
The bad experience happened when I met a sexy Turk in Taksim Square and we walked over to Taksim Park for sex. As we got on the back side of one of the trees on the back section, it became clear that he had a knife he was holding in his right pocket as he walked. Now I understand the need for his own protection, but I was not keen on finding out if he was going to rob me. I stopped, pointed to the area, and then said NO. I then pointed to another section (the east side near the hotels) and motioned for hm to walk with me there. As we walked I was trying to think of a way to run or exit the place. At that moment two policemen were walking through the park. I saw them and just waved and started saying “Hello, hello, can you help me?” The young man immediately started walking away and when the police arrived, I simply asked them to give me directions to my hotel. I had read on the internet about horror stories with guys in Istanbul, so I was very wary of future street action. 
The good experience happened happened on my last night at the Aquarius Sauna which is quite famous. The place seems to close and reopen every few months. It had just reopened and I ventured into the place. I had a great experience with one Turkish guy that was mesmerizing. 
Fast forward to December when I decided to try my luck again in Istanbul. I first went to visit the three bars/clubs and two caffes you can find on the internet. Even with Covid, they were open and quite busy. I immediately had a few young Turks come to talk with me at each place. Their English was not that great but sufficed. Because of my not knowing Turkish, I decided to not chance an encounter with any of the guys. I considered a blow-job for one, but the bathroom could not hold the two of us at the same time. At another bar I finally met two Turkish guys that spoke English. Suddenly this older British man said hello to me and asked if I would join him for a drink at his table. He then proceeds to tell me that I was about to fall prey to a scam. The Turkish guys/escorts had been making it a habit of taking a foreign guys back to their hotel and robbing them. He warned me that they also spiked drinks and had carried a French guy out the previous week when he seemingly looked to be drunk. This British man and his partner are retired living there. He said it was not very safe in parts of Istanbul right now for gays, so even they introduce themselves as  “business” colleagues.  He did give me one interesting insight. He said that Grindr and Planet Romeo would have plenty of straight, masculine, Turkish guys available for sex, but there had been too many horror stories in Istanbul about what happened when these guys got to a client’s hotel or apartment. Instead, he said I should choose a gay man that was clearly a bottom and maybe even effeminate. They said I would have a better chance of not having a gay attack another gay. Well, I tried it and found one sexy university student on Grindr who joined me at my hotel with no problem. He was a bottom, gay, slightly effeminate, and had an amazing body. He told me many sad stories of openly gay men trying to live in Istanbul. I spent three evenings with him and still keep in contact.
I also decided to return to Aquarius Sauna during the day hours. I had one bad experience and three sexy experiences. The bad experience was a young Kurd that had the body of a God, promised to kiss on the lips, and would allow me to suck him for 700 lira ($99 USD). When we got to the room, he would not kiss at all. I tried to leave and he pushed me into the wall and wanted the money. I said NO and motioned that first there was the blow job and then the money. He laid on the table, I gave him the blow job, and then we exited to the cabin. I gave him the 700 lira and he demanded more. I told him NO and immediately walked to the bar area. The guy did not follow, but the bar guy heard me and asked (in English) what had happened. I explained and he said he would ask the guy to leave since he had followed me to the cabin (notice… NOT because he had lied!). I was then offered a drink and two other Turks came to talk with me. They offered themselves as a top and a bottom for 500 lira each ($70 USD) if I wanted some group action. I was soured on the prior experience at this point so I left. I returned the next day and those same two Turks offered themselves again. I decided to take them up this time and we had a great experience for four days in a row (kissing, cumming, sucking, fucking, getting fucked). 
AQUARIUS SAUNA: This can be a bit scary if you have not been there before. Search on the internet under google maps for photos. The entrance is off Istiklal pedestrian road that connects with Taksim Square. The street is Katip Mustafa Çelebi, Sadri Alışık Sk. No: 29/1, 34433 Beyoğlu/İstanbul, Turkey. You can find a marker in Google maps for the location, as well as a 360 view where you can walk through the sauna. You enter off the main road, pay your fee of 50 lira ($7 USD), and then go down a set of steps to the cabin area. You are given a cabin with your own key, a towel, and sandals. You disrobe in the cabin, wrap the towel around you, leave your valuables in the cabin, and then lock the door. You then can walk into the lounge area where all the boys will be sitting. There were about 10 boys on each visit I was there. I then went to the bar on the right and got myself a drink watching carefully how it was made so as not to be spiked. At that point I had brought the International Herald Tribune so I started reading it. The boys will immediately start to approach you for business. The whole place is very dirty to my taste, but they were trying to keep it clean as you can see from the photos. The rooms for sex required you to go up the very narrow set of stairs to the left of the bar area to what I can only describe as an attic. Once at the top, there were a series of 8 rooms that were about 10 ft by 20 ft. each, with a table/mattress (see the photo on google…the room you see there is CLEAN if you can believe it!). This was the most cramped I have ever been for sex. The guy will spray the mattress with a disinfectant, and then place a large towel/blanket over the mattress. When you are finished, you return to your cabin to retrieve the money. The guy is not supposed to follow you back to the cabin.
WEBSITE (the photos in google are better): www. aquariussauna.com
PAY: The gay guy from Grindr asked for 400 lira ($56 USD). He was so good I gave him 800 each time and also met for some meals. The Aquarius guys wanted 500 lira per person for the package deal, but the others were all asking for 700 lira ($99). I was told by the British couple that the going rate paid offered a Turkish client at Aquarius was 300-400 lira ($42-$56 USD). 
Good luck!

I cannot imagine how difficult is it is for people in Brazil right now and I'm so sick of complaints from fellow North Americans about how inconvenient it is to travel to their winter home in Florida right now.

Go to the site and you can see reviews or go to Booking.com
There is nothing wrong with doing a little of your own research...

Brazil saunas are not like the American saunas.  Brazil saunas are more of a nightclub or bar vibe where the the dress code is underwear or towels.
As far as deciding to look for fun online or go to saunas?  My answer is yes, try them both.

https://ilikepinga.com/2020/12/05/david/
https://ilikepinga.com/2020/12/23/yuri-gaspar/
He speaks English.

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Good morning my trashy guys and gals. Hope you and your families are safe and everyone is doing well.
I'm reporting live from a beautiful home we rented in the colonial zone.  This jaunt was a totally spontaneous one prompted by Manny. 
Manny texted last week and asked when we would be back. I told him with the new restrictions, it isn't worth it to continue with out weekend trips because you have to now have a covid test done before returning to the US. 
I told manny that I didn't want to spend a day in a clinic in the dr to get tested. His response was I HAVE A DOCTOR WHO WILL COME TO YOUR APARTMENT. GIVE YOU THE TEST AND YIU WILL HAVE THE RESULTS AND REQUIRED PAPERWORK IN 4 HOURS. 
HE ALSO WENT on to tell me that he had new dick for me to play with.  After confirming what he told me, I booked the hubby and I out on a flight for the weekend. 
Manny, as promised,  had the doctor come to the apartment and administer the test. A few hours later, my hubby and I had the negative results in our email. 
The new guy Manny sent, we will call him BODY PLEASER. this guy came to the house with a big bright smile, cut body and a dick that wouldn't quit. 
Hes passionate AF. Sucked my nipples, locked my armpits, nibbled on my ear throughout the entire encounter. My body never felt such pleasure.
This guy had me trembling and moaning uncontrollably. Hes the guy in the 2 videos fucking my hungry hole. He would nutt, lay back in bed, caress my body, get an election and fuck me again. 
He fucked up my sex-edule (schedule). Lol. After 30 mkns with him, I had to rush to my phone and push back all the appointments I had scheduled. 
I had lined up a few of my faves, but this guy did it for me. My husband watched and recorded him fucking me and told me that his body moved so seductively when he fucked me.
We had SPECIAL K spend the night both Saturday and Sunday. This guy has a dick they won't quit. He fucks, mutts and is ready to fuck again after he cleans himself off.
If you are like me and loved to get fucked throughout the night and into the morning  then its best to hire one of Manny guys overnight.  SPECIAL K is the perfect guy because he has a dick that won't quit. 
His dick is thick, long and gets rock hard. It was soooo much fun creeping downstairs in the middle of the night to ride that dick at 11, 2 and 5 in the morning or whenever my hole desired.  
The GENTLE GIANT is the next guy and the picture you see in this post IS HIM. HES BIG! JIS DICK IS BIG! HIS BODY IS BIG! HES JUST A SEXY FRIENDLY guy who is passionate, likes to massage and keep your hole stuffed with a hard dick.
Stay well my friends. Enjoy the pics and videos.

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Update on my exploration of the Argentinian forums.
Things over there are pretty different, moderation is strict and merciless. As I shared before, I was timed out for the first time in my life for exchanging some heated words that here or at Daddy's would be just a fresh breeze. A group of members with a strong history participating were complaining about management, they were all banned for ever.
Instead of letting threads die from natural death, the moderators close them. They have edited threads fully erasing posts in a way that they are completely intelligibly. 
My theory is that the owner does not really care about the male escorts forums because his money and the traffic for his website are coming from the female escorts forums.
Anyway, if you are careful you can have some meaningful conversations and exchange useful information. I am traveling with an interesting To Do List.

This is just the beginning.

The Bay Area Reporter has long been the place for gay news in Northern California.
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Although I've been on one hell of a draught since the latter part of February and probably want resume this activity until after I've taken the vaccine-- I can add that I have hated it when the guy requests his fee prior to "the play session."  When this has happened to me, which has been rare, the sex has been so, so to nil.

Gosh, I wish I was in a Bangkok hotel right now.

Make sure that you're on a P/rep regimen if you choose to the fucked bareback.  You don't want to get any STDs.

No surprise at all, no way covid will disappear by end of 2021
In fact, a few countries just ban flights from Brazil....
I have a trip booked for this Feb, now I am debating with myself everyday....
If I go, I might be stuck in Brazil for a long time because of no flight back...and maybe there is a new ban even before my Feb trip, also I have to figure out the covid test required for onboarding 
 

I understand that the 1st photo was used in the hard cover edition of the magazine and the 2nd one chosen for the on-line article.
To me, the 2nd one is more fitting for her role that she will take on starting Jan 20.
And as you mention, the colour of the suit in 2nd photo is perfect for her

The Trump assholes won't give a shit. I say let them bury their cultist selves into TOTAL self-destruct mode. If the Republican Party wants to survive, the non-cult members are going to attempt to take control. And with Trump gone, failed, with LOSER status, I suspect the power shift will be swifter than most people think. Too many people are sick and tired of Trump's antics. I could easily see his brand being flushed down the toilet forever.
Jeff Flake: My Fellow Republicans, Trump Is Destroying Us