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January: Quiet month! February: medical conference in Fort Lauderdale Late March-April: Belgium & Paris May: Cruise--Barcelona, Toulon, Cinque Terre, Rome, Capri, Valletta, Messina/Taormina, Palma de Mallorca, Cartagena, Granada (Alhambra), Portimao, Lisbon, further travel to Sintra, Batalha, Tomar, and Alcobaça. June: fabulous Flag Day party at my place! July: Saugatuck Michigan, Grand Rapids, Mackinac Island. August: fabulous party at my place! September: quiet month! October: Sensational New England leaf peeping tour, including the easternmost point in the Continental US/closest place in the US to Africa (West Quoddy Head, Maine), topped by a medical conference in Providence RI November: just finished a quick trip to Las Vegas, preparing family dinner for Thansgiving December: Antarctic Cruise, with extension in Santiago

Kaikan Onsen: First Impressions Straight away you’ll notice how different Kaikan feels compared with some of the older saunas in Bangkok like Sauna mania. There’s a modern sleekness to the building, a strong Japanese aesthetics/minimalist vibe. Plenty of pools and zones, a real men‑only playground. It has a spacious main pool and a long jacuzzi pool beside it. It is the only onsen style men facility with outdoor pool in Bangkok. All others are entirely indoors. The Crowd & Vibe This place is not cliquey in the way that some places can feel (“you must know someone, you must be part of a group…”). It leans open and inclusive. Body types? Everything from lean twinks to more mature guys, a lot in their 30s to 40s, comfortable in their bodies, relaxed rather than hyper‑sculpted. With an occasional bear. Age range seems broader too, older guys show up, they mix in, and there’s less of that “everyone must be 23 and ripped” pressure than in some rivals. Please do your research on the onsens before you go. Ryuu onsen for example is notorious in being cliquey and making those who don’t fit their criteria feel unwelcome. While the onsens in Bangkok does not have clear age boundaries like many saunas in Japan. That does not mean you are made to feel welcome everywhere (!) Facilities Worth Mentioning Outdoor pool: one of the few gay men‑only onsen/sauna venues in Bangkok that features a proper outdoor pool area. Multiple zones: steam room, sauna, milky bath, cold pool, and a “cave”‑style milky pool that gets a lot of thumbs up for mood. Lockable cabins and private rooms upstairs, good for chilling or more discreet chats. The place is “busy but not chaotic” and the crowd “friendly, educated”. Please bring condoms and lube if you intend to spend early time in the lockable or not so lockable cabins upstairs. If you want to attend the secret hour, then lube and condoms are provided free of charge. The “Secret Hour” There’s a special moment from around 8:30 pm upstairs where things shift. Models in glowing necklaces appear; and are available for fun in public. The vibe becomes more party‑charged, play enters into the mix, orgiastic. If you’re comfortable with more “social” or “interactive” atmospheres, this is when the scene deepens. Pro Tips: Arrival earlier in the evening gets you better space in the pool areas; if you turn up late, you might find the premium spots taken. While the place feels inclusive, staff are a bit tight lipped. Pricing is transparent but premium compared with some older saunas (450B during weekend). Also be aware of the day (complete nude day etc check their facebook beforehand) Also you will be informed which models will be attending the secret hour. I will not review the facilities in depth as this has been done on YouTube:

you can afford going to Bali twice a year and can't afford shirt for 300 baht ? Like that 'poor' guy, what is his name ? , who claims destitution while boasting golden faucets

I like Poseidon, on the corner of the Jomtien Complex. It is not only a hotel, but also a very good restaurant. The owner of the hotel is German, the cook in the restaurant is from the Netherlands. https://poseidonpattaya.com/

He might think that the tip was because he got you there so quickly. Driver thinks.. "must take all farangs as fast as possible, they like it and I get good tip!"

It seems most people in America, and many around the world spent 2025 dealing with the CRAZY that is Trump. At least for ME, it has been pretty "consuming" and saddening. How an imbecilic, Orange buffoon caricature can destroy the greatest country in the world, America in less than a year is pretty mindblowing and astounding..... More astounding is that the American people ALLOWED, and made it happen...... When Trump is in your face EVERY day of every week, everywhere you look, its pretty difficult to be engaged in anything else, even if you wanted to. Or maybe I just have TDS ? 🤔.

modesty and frugality seems to be your second nature

I always love it when someone says they had to go somewhere for a "conference" My doctor last time I went to visit him said he was going away for a week to Indonesia for a medical conference I said what's the difference between a holiday and conference "I can claim back on the Tax deduction he said ,all paid for !

Some of us have standards.

I owe, I owe, so off to work I go... 😉

Powerboys is as closed and empty as it's been since 2018. Your friend either saw the laundrystation where old Foresthouse bar used to be, or maybe the arabic restaurant Magic moon around the corner that has been open a year or so.

I take motorbike taxis often but only for short distances ( 50 baht fare or less)

It was City Boys and then became Gaycuya prior to its demise as a gogo bar Afterwards there was a secret casino there for many years, needed to know the special knock to get inside!

I visited TK Massage last week and chose Goson as my masseur. He is gorgeous and I don't regret my choice. He doesn't speak English at all. He is clearly straight, 100% top. When I showed him his MarchCMU videos, where he bottomed, he told me with Google Translate how much money he has received to bottom. It was a lot... Bottoming for me was a clear no. If I wanted to fuck someone, he suggested me to do a threesome with one of the girls of the shop, which I declined.

Yes... you are a valuable source of info, do you purposely fuck with us on so many topics?? BTW, we talked about that (you) with Rob from Cocka2 today about you at dinner at Poseidon, lol

No, you are right!!

Holding on to the handles at the back on a motorbike is dangerous. If the bike seriously buckles or bounces, you will be flipped off like an overloaded buckeroo (for those of you who remember the playing the thing in the 80’s). however, I noticed that’s how a lot of straight men hold on when a passenger on motorbikes. I suppose they feel it’s unmanly to do anything else. However, as a gay man, it safety first, and when I am on a bike taxi I put my two arms around the chest of the driver and cling on like a baby chimpanzee. So far I have not had any driver object. So guys, be safe, be gay, let the straights get the head injuries while you hold on tight….

January= Medellin Colombia February= Boston, Houston March= Manila, Singapore, Bali, Bangkok, Laos April= Pattaya, London, Boston May= Mexico City, Rio de Janeiro June= Sao Paulo, Boston July= Monterrey Mexico August= Had to renew passport since Laos filled it up and I got an Emergency Passport- So was kind of stuck waiting for new one September= Buenos Aires, Iguazu, Paraguay, Curitiba, Porto Alegre, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Boston October=New Delhi, Agra, Pune, Mumbai, Manila November= Pattaya, Bangkok, Bali December= Jakarta, Tokyo, Boston Amazing looking back, I did almost all flights in Business class except where I went on budget airlines with only economy....yet I have chrome faucets 🤷‍♂️

I was thinking so also 😝

We went to Poseidon for dinner last night, @BjornAgain Rob from Cocka2 bar and another farang friend, was packed but the service is always good as well as the food, I got the spaghetti with prawn a la Tom.... perhaps the best shrimps (Prawns) I've ever had, pasta was a little dry, I mentioned that to the chef, I'm sure it'll be netter next time. @ of us ordered the crepe Suzette mostly to watch Moe, the waiter prepare them.... 2025-11-10 21.25.18 moe reduced file (1) (1) (1).mp4

50 years have just passed since the very gay Pier Paolo Pasolini's last film Salo, or as it is often referred to as The 100 Days of Sodom, was premiered. Based on the writing of the Marquis de Sade it is as usual with Pasolini highly erotic, yet also as described by The Guardian as a "terrifying masque about fascism and compliance, an accounting of both sides of the totalitarian coin. Like De Sade’s own writing, it’s about power, not pleasure: who possesses it and whom it destroys. It’s an apocalyptic masterpiece that remains unbearable to watch." It was so shocking it was banned in the UK for 25 years. The Marquis de Sade had written the book while imprisoned in the Bastille. But he was only there for 37 days before he was transferred to an asylum. As described in an article in the New Humanist magazine, the story line is gresome - The film’s plot is straightforward. Four “Fascist” libertines – the Duke, the Bishop, the Magistrate and the President – kidnap nine young men and nine young women, and take them to a villa near the town of Salò. (The choice of “Salò” was no accident – the real Salò was the de facto capital of Mussolini’s Nazi-backed Italian Social Republic, and it was near here that Pasolini’s brother Guido had been killed in 1945.) Accompanied by four male guards, four soldiers and four middle-aged prostitutes who tell lewd stories to inflame the men, they carry out a series of tortures and humiliations on their young victims, eventually torturing them to death. Pasolini was a brilliant intellectual, one of the most prolific creators of all time and yet an artist who always courted controversy. In effect, and despite the shocked reaction of audiences, the movie is essentially an amalgam of Pasolini's own very left-wing views. In it he attacks authoritarianism, globalism and consumerism, basically telling us how disgusting modern society had become in his eyes. To a certain extent he was a visionary for much of what he considered life had become has indeed come to pass in 2025. Even so, some of his work came to be much praised. Frequently criticised violently by the Vatican, in 2014 it partly changed its mind and called Pasolini's movie The Gospel According To St. Matthew "the best film ever made about Jesus Christ." A month before Salo's release, Pasolini was murdered in the most gruesome manner. Always gay, he had a predilection for teenage working class hustlers. On November 2 1975 he was found dead in the seaside town of Ostia outside Rome. The evening before he had picked up a 17-year old youth named Giuseppe Pelosi near Rome's main station. After eating dinner together, they drove to Ostia. After the body was discovered, Pelosi admitted that Pasolini had made a particularly painful homosexual advance on him. Pasolini tried to get him to change his mind, whereupon the boy battered his body very badly, especially around his testacles. He then ran over the body in Pasolini's silver Alfa Romeo before racing it back to Rome. Some, including members of Pasolini's own family, considered the boy was a patsy and that the murder had been committed by more influential figures in Italy, perhaps even the mafia. But that still remains conjecture since Pelosi had after some days confessed to the murder. In 1983 he was released on probation. Yet nearly 20 years after the murder, Pelosi retracted that confession. He died of lung cancer in 2017 aged 59. The real motive behind the murder and by whom it was comitted remains a mystery. Pasolini was just 53. There is a lot of full frontal nudity in Salo. There is one scene where the teenagers about to be married all enter naked. I can only find a copy of the complete movie on a Russian website. This one below is dubbed into English. And for anyone wanting to see that particular scene, look at this you tube version at 41'15" in from the start. Just click on the small screen at the top. There is more nudity elsewhere where the guys seem particularly better endowed. But I just do not have time to locate them! https://m.ok.ru/video/1644224711193 The young Giuseppe Pelosi in prison - photo The Italian Insider website https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/01/what-did-pasolini-know-fifty-years-after-his-brutal-the-directors-vision-of-fascism-is-more-urgent-than-ever https://newhumanist.org.uk/articles/4908/salo-the-unseen-movie https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/24/who-really-killed-pier-paolo-pasolini-venice-film-festival-biennale-abel-ferrara

Not going to write much right now.... Went to eat tonight with @BjornAgain and another friend and ended up with a wander (if I'm using that phrase correctly) and I offed someone from Dreamboys, because Xboys was just stupid at 800 thb for an off and the guys asking 3k... The Dreamboys guy was AMAZING (for Thailand) for 2k, more than I'd normally spend, but we stayed together about 3-4 hours and he ticked all the boxes and I'd see him again...Dreamboys was FULL with customers sitting with guys...quite a few hot guys, and you know I'm sarcastic 😝 Boystown does have better tops than Jomtien.... prove me wrong, lol

while you are right there's other side of coin - customers who after massage ++++ pretend they were under impression that massage fee incudes everything and refuse to pay tip. I heard it quite a few times in both Pattaya and Bangkok, most recently on my last trip in Aug. So unfortunately venue needs to take steps to shield boy's earnings

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Seconded - and the host of other great British actors like Dame Judi Dench, Dame Helen Mirren, Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Derek Jacobi. They were all jobbing actors who made their reputations early in their careers by playing in weekly repertory plays that toured Britain. That is how I was able to see Dame Maggie as a youngster when the new National Theatre toured. She was in a Franco Zeffirelli production of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing with her then husband the wonderful Robert Stephens and a cast including such luminaries as Anthony Hopkins, Derek Jacobi and Frank Finlay. All for peanuts in those days.

Yes, City became Gacuya. It was rumoured to belong to a policeman. The mamasan was a flamboyant character whom I recall wearing outrageous, feathered hats. She could go outside and then suddenly open the door theatrically to re-enter, expecting the clientele to look round in admiration. We tended not to do so. It was a twink bar. And one of my favourites..

Not to nitpick, but the name was Gacuya, not Gaycuya. Here's an old post from 2006 by catawumpuscat (RIP) that mentions Gacuya Bar. If I remember correctly, the narrow Kawaii Bar was just to the left of it, then past that, the stairs leading up to the second floor Dynamite Bar, which was above Kawaii and Gacuya bars.

If I was a gambling man...which I am...I would bet yes ! 🤣

I do since he knows where fine dining is

Part 4 The next night I thought I would give grindr a break after what happened the morning before. So I went back to the bench near the McDonald's drunk. There I met a decent looking cute guy, he looked innocent and had a nice shy demeanor. Just what I needed after the day before with the scammer guy. He had a normal body, bubble butt and was 29 years old. I took him back to my apartment. His dick was average size. I sucked him and then he told me he would like to try sucking so he sucked me. It was actually quite good as I directed him as to what to do. Put the dick in the dome of your mouth and avoid using your teeth etc. He took instructions well and did a good job. Then he fucked me quite nicely but he was timid so I flipped him aggressively and started fucking him. I felt I could bully and dominate him which I quite enjoyec. He was not too experienced but I could tell it was his first time getting fucked. We flip fucked for a while until we both cummed. He left and then I decided to roam the streets in the city centre at 4am looking for mischief. I saw an open Shisha and gaming cafe and went up the stairs to a cool dark large space. There were many tables for Shisha surrounded by comfy looking chairs. They was a guy sitting there smoking Hashish. He was 28 years old, tall, broad shoulders, bearish looking but not hairy with a beard. He got up straight away out down his joint and welcomedme. He asked who I was with and I told him I was just walking around the area alone. I told him not to worry and that I smoke Hash too. He motioned for me to come sit with him. There were some teenagers playing in the separate PlayStation room on the other side of the huge room. We started chatting and he rolled me a joint and we smoked two Hash joints together. His English was very good and we had a great conversation. He told me he was the owner of the cafe. His family was relatively wealthy and his father gave him the capital for the business. He opened it 5 months earlier and business was slow so far. He told me he was newly married and that his wife was away for a few days visiting family in Cairo. His cousin who looks after the place with him was sleeping on a sofa behind us and he told him to go sleep at home for a few hours while the cafe was quiet and the cousin left. We continued chatting and smoking until the teenagers in the gaming area left and paid him. He asked me to join him in the gaming area which was a dark room with those Arabic sofas on the floor with lots of cushions and a huge TV and PlayStation. He got us some drinks and chips and we played fifa soccer sitting right next to each other for 90 minutes. I felt the sexual tension between us but after what happened the day before I was too weary to make the first move. He was also married and looked very straight. He was a big strong guy and could beat my ass. He never made a move either. Looking back he was clearly signaling for more but we were both too scared to make the first move. I had a feeling he had a huge dick as well and would be aggressive in bed by the way he carried himself and his demeanor. After almost 4 hours together smoking it was daylight and his cousin came back with breakfast. He insisted I eat breakfast with them but I said I had to leave and sleep. Really I wanted the amazing buffet breakfast at my resort but I didn't say that. Hash gives you the munchies like weed/marajuana does. I gave him 1000 EGP. He refused to take it but I insisted it was for all the hash, drinks, snacks and hospitality. He insisted I come back the next night but I ended up not seeing him again. The next night I went back on grindr and was speaking to a guy I was talking to for over a week on there. He was 22 years old and claimed to a have big dick. He invited me over to his apartment because his younger brother who he lived with was away visiting their family in Cairo for the week. A lot of men from all over Egypt move to Hurghada for work and visit their families when they get time off work. Hurghada is a holiday destination and October is low season so people often get time off work. I went to his apartment not expecting much. He was so handsome when I met him with piercing green eyes. I was not expecting much because he wouldn't send a face pic. He was short with an amazing muscly body and great ass. He was literally perfect. He was smoking Hash while I sucked his dick. It grew to over 8.5 inches and was very thick. He then fucked me so good and aggressively for around 30 minutes. He was the second best fuck I had on this trip. Everything was great about this guy. Gorgeous, sexy body, big thick dick, amazing fuck and a great personality. He had such cute smile with dimples too. He was literally perfect in every way. He barely spoke a word of English but I speak Arabic quite well. He was such a nice guy and he we had a great conversation after sex. I asked him to roll me 2 joints to take home while we chatted away in Arabic. He told me he was a coptic Christian from Cairo and that his younger 19 year old brother was away visiting their family for the week. He said he really enjoyed fucking me and wanted to see me again the next day. I met him for 4 days in a row until my trip ended. Everytime the sex was great and he would roll me 2 joints to take home and I would pay him 600 EGP for the joints. He was such a great and nice guy with no hidden agendas and really enjoyed spending time with me and having amazing sex together. I actually kind of fell in love with him.

You're richer than you think 😉

Used to be no offs until after closing time. When I have been, no hanky panky. Drinks cheap, but just chat to shirtless boys. I don't intend to return, unless it's changed.

I paid 700,000 IDR for full service

unique poor staying in 5 strs hotels and having gold faucets . I wonder whom you are kidding you oligarch, you

* 3 trips to Malaysia (including Sarawak), 2 trips to Japan with a third coming up next month, 1 trip to Beijing *. I have a Japanese section is my house, which includes a balcony and verandah overlooking a fairly large Japanese- style garden. I had some maintenance /renovations done by a Japanese gardener and a traditional carpenter, both of whom are my friends and who were responsible for the original design and construction. While they were here they enjoyed many rounds of golf and drives out into the country. *. I expanded my real estate portfolio. I'm not doing it for the money - I'm sponsoring the son of a friend and in return I get a cut of the profits. With house prices going through the roof here in Western Australia, it's a great time to be in real estate......if you can find properties to sell! That's the hard part. *. I was kept busy with some charity work. *. I've got lots of gym equipment at home, but I never use it, so I joined a gym. Nothing too strenuous - just some muscle strengthening exercises. It's actually quite enjoyable. Mmm....I think that's about it.

I find a number of issues raised the the video somewhat concerning. I do suggest that the history of Thai tourism is definitely not linked to just one Prime Minister and his efforts at the start of the 1960s. Almost a decade earlier, as the vdo points out, much of the world had become transfixed by an interest in Thailand linked to the 1951 musical The King and I with its popular songs being regularly played in much of the world. That the Jim Thomson company had provided all the silks for the production and the Queen had been photgraphed with its star Yul Brynner certainly helped raise awareness. Perhaps all this was not in a tourism sense, but definitely it terms of curiosity value. This was then increased very considerably by the 1956 movie. Incidentally, though, Jim Thomson arrived in Thailand in 1946, not 1948. Vacation travel to Asia in the 1950s, as the vdo rightly points out, almost in general and Thailand in particular was on the minds of very few people. How many anywhere in what we term the west even considered intercontinental tourism to Asia in those days? Very few, as evidenced by the small number of flights linking Europe/America and Asia. One of my earliest memories of the early 60s is of passing the windows of travel companies with their large posters of the new Thai airline in its exotic purple colours, so much more attractive and enticing that those of most other airlines! The narrator's comments about the number of Americans based in Thailand during the wars in Indo China (not just Vietnam!) can give the impression of being more than a little off the mark. He states "from 1962 and 1976, 50,000 Amercan troops were stationed in Thailand." The implication is that 50,000 were here throughout every year of this period. In 1962 there were 6,500 US servicemen based in Thailand to fight the Pathet Lao in Laos. It is generally agreed that 50,000 troops were stationed only at the height of the Vietnam conflict in 1968. Initially some selected Bangkok for R&R, but Bangkok had very few hotels in the early 1960s. Increasingly, with the US Air Force using Utapao Air Base, thanks to Thai entrepreneurs Pattaya quickly developed into a much nearer and even cheaper place to find the girls and the booze for the R&R breaks - or as some preferred to call them I&I breaks, Intoxication and Intercourse. And as rightly noted, more and more military personnel on R&R gravitated to the sin cities like Pattaya in Thailand and around Clark Air Base in The Philippines. But I find it really hard to believe his comment that "Basically Thailand used the war to build a tourism machine that would outlast the war itself." This may have been the result, but then no one in Thailand - or just about anywhere else, for that matter - knew that such a massive war would be the result of the initial fighting against the Pathet Lao. So the infrastructure for R&R was definitely not a deliberate policy. It was a policy that gradually emerged over a period of years. Also, no one anywhere knew when that war would end and the GIs depart. So what was being built were temporary facilities that had to start finding other "residents" once the USA started drawing down its forces from 1969. The narrator also fails to mention that Thailand had become a key part of the hippy trail in the 1960s, when hip young guys and gels from western countries sought a different vacation experience, mostly cheap backpackers on much longer vacations in countries like Thailand and Nepal. Naturally they spent overall far less than the short-term GIs. But, as Australian travel began to develop with family reunions between Australia/New Zealand and Europe made possible as a result of long distance flights replacing multi-week sea voyages, Bangkok along with Singapore became major stopovers on the kangaroo route. Over time, a considerable number of passengers used the stopovers literally to "stop-over" for a few days. This, I bellieve, more than anything helped with the development of, shall I say, middle class hotels. The narrator then virtually jumps from the Vietnam War to the years just before the Asian Economic Crisis on July 2 1997. Yet Thailand had used the 1980s to develop its economy in a big way. But he is absolutely wrong in saying Thailand was the hub of South East Asia by the 1990s. Singapore and Hong Kong were vastly ahead of Thailand, as was Japan even though that decade witnessed the country's own massive recession as a result of the economic bubble of the 1980s. I am also concerned about the "investment tourism" comments. He again omits to mention that Thailand was a victim of its own crony capitalism as the 1990s progressed. Thai companies owned by Thai managements were increasingly encouraged by the government. But as so often happens in Thailand, one arms does not always know what the other is doing. With the government desperate to keep the Thai baht pegged at 25 to US$1, its economy was tanking. Property companies sprang up by the many hundreds and new banks opened. Expansion was the name of the game. A large asset bubble developed along with unthinkable and unsustainable amounts of debt. But members of the government were also major players in the private sector. Changing the status quo was unthinkable. Inevitably the baht was overvalued. To maintain its US$ peg, local interest rates had to rise - and then keep on rising. Companies found it was far cheaper to borrow large amounts of dollars or Swiss francs where the interest payments were far lower. In the first month of 1997, the international speculators saw their opportunity. Anticipating a collapse of the baht, they sold massive amounts of the currency. To defend the peg, the Thai government spent $24 billion - virtually 70% of its entire foreign currency reserve. The defence worked, but when the speculators returned at the start of July, the cupboard was bare. Thailand had no choice but to devalue and then suffer a major recession. Thai companies suffered massive losses and many collapsed. By the end of the year the baht had lost half its value. What he says about the sex industry readers of this forum have known for decades. In this respect the vdo could in fact have been made years ago. We all know that as a result of economic developments and the rapidly falling birth rate the number of young Thai men working in the sex industry has fallen rapidly. They have been replaced by young guys from neighbouring countries. Yet, while he goes on about Thailand's sex industry, he fails to mention that it is a small fry compared to the sex industry in a country like Japan, for example. The difference is that some other countries have far better regulation and official ways of generating sizeable income from it. Where the vdo is 100% accurate is its description of "the emotional narrative of Thailand as unsafe has stuck." His views on overcharging and the general higher cost of living are also true. And so Thailand is losing out quite considerably to other South East Asian countries. The question: can tourism ever increase through the present soft-power government initiatives aimed at much wealthier tourists is one which definitely requires an answer. The problem is that no one really has any clue if it can. In the corporate sector, my view is that it can only do so if it changes its laws and permits greater ownership for foreign companies. It also has to offer far more than just great food, nice apartments, fashion and film. Both Singapore and Hong Kong long ago accepted that foreign companies need more to make living here for even middle-level managers from overseas more similar to working in their home markets. So they have invested heavily in theatres with top class touring Broadway musicals, orchestras, dance companies and other entertainments that employees could see in London, Zurich, New York, Sydney etc. The main Japanese and South Korean cities are similar. But I am certain successive Thai governments have never even thought of this!

I defy anyone here to beat that travel schedule! I didn't do much apart from reading @Olddaddy's often amusing posts - and feeling envious that he stayed in the Capella!! Oh, and in London I did get to see the amazing Abba Voyage show and with friends catch an Exhibition of the Mughal Arts.

I read that hourly wage for a part time barista in Hanoi is about 30,000 dong ($1.14) an hour. So anyone offering minimum wage for a hooker, adding an hour for travelling, might offer 60,000. I'll stick to a million or so if that's agreable to both parties. I can see why Vietnamese men are happy to come to Pattaya with me for 4,000 bt a day plus expenses.

Updates: Dragon and Koi has now been renamed Rainbow Dragon. It now also has a sister bar next to G’s called «Unicorn». Staff from Dragon work there once a week in rotation. I noticed that the main bar seems to have more customers these days at least on the weekends.

@silverwolf76 Here it is: After taking the harrowing ride to 15M massage i went inside and was taken to the second floor. The receptionist asked what kind of massage i wanted. I selected aroma oil. I think i paid 550 for that and 1300 to Taro, all prepaid. Taro took me upstairs to a small room with a matt on the ground. He gave me a towel and directed me to shower in the bathroom/shower combo down the hall while he did the same upstairs. We both went back to the room in only towels. His picture on Line was a bit dated because he now has his full torso covered in tattoos. He was definitely hot. His hair was kinda interesting and different from the photos. Maybe it’s a style he's going for but it looked frizzy. As he was setting up his supplies I used Google Translate to say “please no penetration” in Thai. He looked at me and seemingly understood. He directs me onto the mat onto my belly. He starts giving a massage but i don’t think he’s the most well trained in that. Pretty fast he takes away my towel and is definitely focusing on my butt. I’m sure he’s used to really plowing his customers. I’m enjoying his muscular tattooed body and arms a lot and it was tempting to have him inside me. He could sense that and asks if he should put a condom on. I say yes against my better judgement. His length was normal size but his girth was tremendous. I’ve never seen a cock like that in person. He starts dousing me with oil trying to make his way in. I’m not very used to anal so it was kinda painful at times. Once he would get in he would kind of violently thrust in which disconcerted me. I then flipped over for him and he was doing more of the same. He was really into it but all the oil and pain was getting me soft so I directed him to let me blow him a bit. I came pretty soon after and we took our separate showers and departed. A fun experience overall but i wasn’t ready to be fucked like that. My fault for saying yes. Now i’m on my flight home next to some nice pastor religious guy whose been spreading the word in Africa for three weeks. I achieved Alaska Platinum/One World Emerald status which was the primary point of the trip. Also got to bed four sexy guys for under $500 total(plus flight/hotel/food/transport). Now I need to really maximize the value of the status by traveling a lot next year. P.S. My Lao Freshboy left his ring in my shower so i told him i’ll bring it back in March. He’s looking forward to my return!

Pantanawet is correct here, the handle at the back on the motorbike is for maneuvering the bike in parking situations or onto the back of a bigger vehicle and is not supposed to be held by the passenger Holding the handle completely unbalances the bike and guarantees at least a broken collar bone and arms to protect your face if you spill. Hands should be on your knees, hanging by your side or around the drivers waist Exception: if you are the third or even fourth person on the bike, then it may be wise to hang on to the handles!

I changed plans and booked a 90 minute massage with 15M massage in Saphan Kwai through Line with Taro. Hopefully it’s worthwhile. I will specify no penetration when it gets to that point because this is an H place from what i understand. I wanted to be adventurous so i took a Grab motorcycle ride for 20 minutes. That’s exhilarating! I won’t be doing that again. I was grabbing the rear handles for dear life. I kept imagining the ways i could crack my skull in this traffic. With about a minute left to go another driver at a red light said something to my driver and he promptly gave me a helmet. Maybe he saw the police around or something. I would have appreciated that dingy thing at the outset!

Bless Dame Maggie Smith!!

at least he's never lonely

It depends which personality he is using.

She has been one of the best political leaders of my lifetime. Her values and determination are awesome. I'll miss you, Nancy. The Democrats will too. Books have been and will be written about her. But these are a few paragraphs that get to the heart of it. Democrats can’t fill the Nancy Pelosi void Call me liberal. But to me, she is both amazingly effective, and beloved. 💕

Out of curiosity, I went to this thread today (11.05.25). I'm perplexed as to why Birmingham boy NEVER received any answers to his queries. Men, from now on and in the future, please accommodate our "brothers" requests. I know yours have been answered in the past; I damn well know that mine have, for I was at the now defunct "daddy's" website now CompanyofMen and received my answers way back in 1999 as well as given lots beginning in 2002. ...just thought I'd come to the rescue of a brother--even if it's two months later.

He works at Kasikorn Bank. He goes between the Sathorn branch and the Silom branch. I have met him at the Sathorn branch for a quick cup of coffee when he has taking a break, so I have seen him actually working at the bank and in uniform with badge. That part I don't doubt. I know where the massage shop in Sathorn is located, very near his bank, but do not know the name nor did I realize he was working there. They are all older women except him. I thought he was just having casual conversation with them and did not realize they knew each other from a working relationship. No idea the name or location of the Surawong shop. He showed me photos of his parents, as well as his sister who was killed in the tsunami and some other family members that were killed. I believe he said he lost a total of 9 or 12 family members in that horrific event. I know his actual Thai name (Bee is nickname), have seen his official government ID, know the address of his studio apartment but never actually been there, and don't know how much he pays in rent monthly. I didn't want to ask at the time. I suppose the family photos could belong to someone else, but I would have no way of knowing that. Given that so much info was actually factual...I guess I just wanted to believe it was all true. Don't know what part or how much is fiction.

The Unicorn was cheeky in asking the question and received an appropriate rebuke

I've been to Xi'an once: 1980. Because there wasn't a foreign tourism network developed yet the small group I traveled with was housed in a military/VIP guesthouse compound. As I left the compound and walked the streets nearby people gathered around me. Several students of English spoke with me and the others around me were so impressed with them. I had a good camera with me and let people look through the lens, and they were fascinated. I also had a Polaroid camera, took a couple of photos of individuals and there was quite a commotion when others viewed them. It was as if they'd never seen a photo of themselves before - which I don't think they had. The Terracotta Warriors were stunningly impressive.