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i am in Bangkok for a three month trip. It's a great place to spend American winters. While those of you on the East Coat are enjoying hopefully your last blizzard of the year, I spent most of my day pool side on a 96 degree day. Gotta love retirement. i had a situation a couple of weeks ago that shows the warm and friendly side of the Thai people. I decided to go to Hanoi for a long weekend. Another city I am falling in love with. Great people, food, a city that's starting to grow up fast. All packed and ready to go. Grab a taxi infront of my condo. Great day, no traffic, friendly driver, takes about 25 minutes. Get out of taxi, get luggage, get to airline check in counter. Opps...where's my wallet. Panic sets in as I realize I have lost my wallet. I had $200. drivers license, 1 credit card and my debit card. I live off my debit card and really messed up without it. Sat down for a minute to take stock of what's happing. Bangkok has many different taxi company's, and I had no idea which one I had used. Tourist Visas are 30 days. You have to leave the country for a day or more then come back. This was my 30th day and I had to go. I had my passport, couple other credit cards, and about $50. Cash in my backpack. Wallet is gone, nothing I can do about it now, so get on the plane to Hanoi. I had prepaid hotel and airport transfers so was covered there. Hanoi is very inexpensive City. Figured I could do credit card cash advance if needed. Learned how to have a fun weekend and be frugal, something I'm not in Bangkok. Back to Bangkok, hopping maybe I left wallet in Condo (nope) on the phone canceling cards and ordering replacement license. Lucked out, with int'l collect numbers for banks and fast and friendly service. I use Chase and I rec'd new debit card by UPS in 5 days. A special thank you to TotallyOz as he is here in Bangkok and let me use his address for delivery. Last night as I'm taking my 5pm nap before heading out to spend time with my friends, big knock on door. One of the workers from my condo building says your taxi here. I said I didn't order taxi. Language is an issue. He finally pulls out his wallet, points to it and said taxi. Then it hit me. Taxi has my wallet. Head down and sure enough there is the driver and he has my wallet. Nothing missing. All the cash there. Wow. Lots of thanks and smiles on my part. I gave him a very nice tip and he was all smiles. Language was an issue with everybody standing there, so didn't get the story. Today a worker I know that speaks English talked to security guy . Taxi driver found wallet when he got back to city. He knew I was only gone for few days. He remembered where he picked me up. Finally was in the area. My license has my picture on it. He asked security guy. Fairly easy as I'm only Caucasian living in the building. Wallet returned. Thailand is a country of amazingly friendly, caring people. There's a reason they call it, Land of Smiles. Taxi drivers do get a bad rap here for not using meters, or picking you up, falling asleep while driving I got a good guy. 10 days after I lost wallet, he still took the time to find me and return it. He was concerned for me. Asking if everything is ok, am I ok. It was one of the better happy endings I've had in Bangkok.

I am newly retired as of Jan 1st this year, and therefore I am still figuring out my new life, and struggling over how to fill my days. While I never was a planner, I was always a "goal" oriented person and tired to find "purpose" in each day. So its been difficult, although I do work 1 day a week at my OLD company, and 1 day a week at a local supermarket (NO, I am NOT a bagboy). Today, I decided to tackle my pantry and freezer because recently I cooked some stuff that was in my freezer, and had to throw it out because clearly it WASNT FRESH.... I have a walk in pantry and a huge freezer, and can report after several intense hours, BOTH have had a re-birth.. In the pantry I found stuff dated back to 2003, unused, and several other years were represented too. Needless to say, ALL of it was a toss... In the freezer the oldest item I found was some frozen food dated 2013 (not that bad, but still not FRESH) All of it was a toss. I ended up with 3 garden trash bags full of stuff, and my only regret was that I couldnt send it to a food bank..... So THIS is retirement, huh ? Can any of you RELATE to this, and do you have any suggestions for me ?

About 10 maybe 12 years ago you could find the guy on the left and the one on the right working in the Rio saunas and the one on the left did a number of gay porn films! This photo was taken recently at LadiesClub a straight dance club that has about a 1/2 dozen male strippers performing. Over the years quite a few of the Point and 117 guys worked here! Ladies club has been open at least 12 years if not longer! If i can find one of the stills from his porn days i will post it! He was cute and was always muscular evev back then!

Thanks Lurker! I have already brought one guy up from Sao Paulo and possibly bringing two up in May. Airfares from Brazil to Mexico are relatively cheaper in the May thru Sept season!

Thank you Darkseraphim! One thing i should point out is only one of the guys has been "brown" so far! 4 have been european i.e. Spanish, italian and white mexicans and one was 3/4 mexican and 1/4 chinese and one white Cuban. But i am sure that these % will change as the numbers go up! :-)

I found a couple stills from his porn movies!

I went to Bar Fama on a Saturday night a couple weekends ago for the first time based on this recommendation. I arrived around midnight and the place was virtually empty with 3 customers, including me. There were about 7-8 working guys outside the bar, most of them in the 18-25 age range, and they rotated in and out of the bar over the time that I was there. They were all fairly friendly, some stopping over to say hello, yet not overly aggressive. If you wanted a guy, the only place inside to go was the restrooms (they can be locked/private), or you could go to a nearby hotel by the hour. I could not find the area where an earlier poster mentioned that there was a railing with guys hanging over it getting blowjobs. While virtually empty, I was quite happy having met this 21 year old ripped guy who took out his 10 inch dick in the bathroom and then things progressed from there. A R$30 tip ($10 USD) to him was well worth it. Inspired me to meet another guy there, which I was happy to meet up with, but not quite as good as the first. It's a different scene yet can be very rewarding. Close to Republica area if you want to head over there after this bar. A couple photos of the inside of the bar.