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Good topic. I am married to a wonderful Thai man I met in 1993. We moved to Canada together, he from Thailand, me from the US, and have made a good life in Vancouver. It has now been almost twenty years, and he wants to move back to Thailand to be with his aging Mom. Having hauled him to North America for all these years, I can hardly say I won’t live in his country, so it looks like, at age 70, I will move to Thailand next year. I will give up a lot, my community, universal health care, creature comforts and cool weather, but hey—it’s marriage and for better or worse. I am trying to look at it as an opportunity for discovery. I am fortunate in that I have a hobby that allows me to meet new people and develop community. We also have a beautiful home in On Nut. So I’ll do it, with moments of fear and sadness mixed with the anticipation. Life does not stand still even when we get old.

I already mentioned that turtles are often visible in Leme (from the rocks where people fish). It was published yesterday in the papers that a few ones had also been seen in the Botafogo bay. I decided to have a look. Metro to Botafogo, then walk under Aterro to reach the beach (approximately where restaurant Fogo de Chao is), then walk along the beach until the rocks. I managed to see around 10 of them. Some very big ("luths"), other smaller. It is magic to see them dive and reappear from time to time at the surface. Pity that this Botafogo bay is so polluted by plastic bags, cans, ... you name it. And the views to Cristo Redendor and Sugar Loaf are spectacular ...

This guy is not as cute as your usual. Best regards, RA1

Sao Paulo Lagoa Friday and Saturday Impressive number of garotos both days. I was not impressed though by the quality. Many boys who normally work in Rio saunas were present, in particular big M who is normally in Pointe and who likes to wank his huge cock and knock it on customer s shoulders or neck. Big M always wear a tee shirt and underwear. When big M came to say hello on saturday, his dick was in the underwear. I told big M that I never saw his dick limp. He laughed, lowered his underwear and showed his huge cock, maybe not in erection but as big and hard (he took my hand to put it on his dick) as usually. Big M could say, as a former King of France : "until the age of 40, I thought it was a bone" :-)). Later, when big M was going from one customer to the other while wanking his cock, I told him that he was scaring the customers with his huge dick. He laughed and answered "no. They like it". I went only a couple of times with big M. Both times we carefully selected a bottom which would accomodate his huge dick. I like Lagoa because the bar is in front of the showers. Drinking a beer while watching at garotos soaping their torsoes, their cock, their butt,.... is great. I hope the new location will maintain such a layout. In addition, they clean the glasses regularly, so you always have a good vision of what is in there. Nothing to guess through a misty or foggy glass (which can be sexy too). In Porto Alegre in Mezzaninu where showers are also in the bar but where noone cleans them, the garotos throw water on the glasses prior to showering in order to get rid of the droplets and the mist : they are sure the customers can see them clearly and can also see which customers seem to have a specific interest in them. I spotted A when he showered himself. I loved his defined hairy body, his firm ass, his hairy crotch, ... when he came to see me after the shower, he told me he was only top but was ready to bottom. I stopped going with guys who are not bottoming at least from time to time. In most cases, they seem to suffer so much when penetrated that I take no pleasure and stop. I would have loved to worship A's hairy body though. Saturday was Rodolfo' birthday. Rodolfo is the owner. He is from Uruguay as the flag on the stage reminds. Balloons in the room were also of the white and blue colors of Uruguyan flag. Place was packed. Show with 12 strippers was great. It is a good idea to have the strippers wearing underwear :-(( wander in the room and shaking hands with customers. Churrasco was also quite ok. Great evening ! my preferred stripper : Gaucho Allan Felipe. Smiling and sexy as hell while showing some pubic hair above his underwear

In view of political developments in the UK and US over the past few years, is it really so out of line to suggest Caucasians are an inferior race? Just a thought...

Trending for most of the day today: #epsteinsuicidecoverup I happened to see ABC's This Week With George Stephanopoulos today. Much to my surprise, they opened with a piece and roundtable on Epstein. Recently, George apologized for his dinner with Epstein in 2010, about a year after Epstein did time for sex offenses. ABC host George Stephanopoulos said he regrets dining with Jeffrey Epstein about a year after the accused sex trafficker finished his first stint in jail for pleading guilty to soliciting an underage prostitute. “That dinner was the first and last time I’ve seen him,” Stephanopoulos said in an email to The New York Times. “I should have done more due diligence. It was a mistake to go.” Epstein hosted Stephanopoulos and a slew of other media insiders — including news anchors Katie Couric and Charlie Rose, comedian Chelsea Handler and director Woody Allen — at his Manhattan townhome in December 2010 for a chance to meet Prince Andrew, who at the time was fourth in line to the British throne, The Daily Beast reported in 2011. George's roundtable today mentioned most of the famous names that were released in the court paper documents. However, one name that went noticeably absent: Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz has been a regular guest on This Week. It is rather obvious that ABC wanted to stay on the good side of Dershowitz. Despicable.

hoping that 15000 forcibly removed families erase that from their minds is tall order Mr. Ratnasate I'd say

My advice was to travellers only. But it wouldn't hurt if people contemplating move to another country permanently considered it as well and thought 'what will happen if my currency goes down by half and at the same time prices in my new country will go up twice". I understand your point about expats but those you describe are victims of lack of foresight , poor planning and bad luck. In most cases they have nobody to blame , even themselves, it's just circumstances did not work to their original specifications. Changing countries and environment always carries both risks and rewards and one who decides to move must expect first but at the same time hope for the second. Burning boats is good for a movies but very rarely works in real life. We tend to forget that with age our health is expected to deteriorate and day may come when we need somebody to make us tea and buy us bread, then that boat may come handy. So many now are paying price for having those boys in their bed for trifling cost as you said. Nobody was complaining before that having guy long time costs less than train ticket to the airport at home. Most of us are coming to Thailand for illusions, it turns out that some of those illusions are not what we hoped for.

It is my fervent hope that they continue to cling to their culture. It's one of the reasons that has kept me coming back going on 18 years now. It has certainly changed my life at a time when it most needed changing. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMO, the root cause of the diminishing birth rate has more to do with how wealth is distributed. That's not just an issue in Thailand, but in many nations. Thankfully, we have many opportunities to affect this issue as we choose how to distribute our baht.

Personally I think the casual racism on the board is astonishing, but it seems to be limited (I hope) to a few complainers. The adage among the happier expats in Thailand is, "Don't try to change Thailand. Let Thailand change you." You don't necessarily have to believe that 100%, but it's an essential thought experiment for any good expat or traveler.