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Day 19 in Da Nang – 12 May 2025 I woke up early today full of energy and by 10am I am already at my favorite Vietnamese restaurant for a delicious Bò né breakfast at: While I am eating my Bò né, Social Samy passes by – he produces a daily morning show on YouTube, and he captures me finishing my Bò né in his video for a couple of minutes. Haha…. I have heard that the rain storms here can be brutal and before I left for Da Nang, back in Pattaya, I tried to buy a rain jacket, but I was not successful. So, today, I decide that I will go to the famous Han Market over in downtown Da Nang (the Pattaya part – as I am living in the Jomtien area of Da Nang = My Khe / My Anh). Da Nang does not have a bahtbus (songthaew) type of transportation system so I decide to walk it as it is a nice cool refreshing day after last night’s rain storm. My Google Timeline states that I have walked for 4.6km, with an elapsed time of 1.5 hours – as it is not as direct “as the crow flies” type of walk to get to the Han Market. What is nice about walking in Da Nang is that there are many areas where there are big sidewalks and/or wide beach promenades that go on and on for kilometres. However, on the smaller streets the Vietnamese love to park their motorbikes on the sidewalks in a disorderly fashion – so you are often having to walk out into the street. But, unlike in Cebu or Pattaya – the traffic is light and the fear of having to walk out into the street is less. Before venturing into the Han Market – which is a very INTENSE experience – I decide that I need to re-energize and I decide to eat an early lunch, as it is already 12 noon and I eat at: https://limoncellovn.com/ It is nice to be able to sit down and rest my slightly swollen feet. I eat a nice pumpkin soup followed with rigatoni with eggplant and sausage with San Pelligrino sparkling water – as I need to rehydrate. Afterwards I have an Italian expresso to give me that energy boost for the Han Market. Luca, the Chef/owner, originally from Genoa, comes over and introduces himself – he is in Vietnam for 12 years, of which 10 years in Da Nang, and he loves it and does not wish to return to Italy. I compliment him on his nice restaurant and authentic food. Now I walk over to the nearby Han Market. It is a large 2 floor building that takes up an entire city block. So, first I circumnavigate the entire exterior of the building hoping that maybe rain jackets may be for sale externally to the market. Mission failed – so I need to enter into the market. https://vinwonders.com/en/wonderpedia/news/han-market-da-nang-explore-a-renowned-destination-for-shopping-lovers/ This is my 3rd visit to this market, first in 2019, again in 2024, and now in 2025. The internal passageways are narrow with tons of people usually who are yelling, sometimes pushing and shoving – especially on the upper floor, which is dedicated to clothing and shoes. I eventually make my way to the central staircase to get upstairs and it is already a complete mayhem – a grandmother type of Vietnamese lady sees that I am perplexed and takes my hand and points to my phone – as I understood that she wanted to help me but I needed to use Google translate. Wow, BINGO – this grandmother was so helpful. She drags me through the various stalls yelling in Vietnamese – and on 2 occasions that made me chuckle – the seller tells her that she does have rain jackets --> but not for a big guy like me. We all have a good laugh. In these humorous exchanges I learn that my size in Vietnam is 5 XL – whereas, back in Pattaya, I am usually of size 2 XL. Did I gain so much weight? Or is the clothing measurement system different in Vietnam – I chose to accept the later response. After visiting the 5th stall, we find a black “Nike” (you just know that it is so fake) rain jacket that fits me perfectly. I insisted on those that are lite in fabric – as it is just too dam hot and humid here in Asia for anything heavier. Back in Pattaya, I bought one of those made of plastic rain jackets that they sell in 7-Eleven – but there is NO air inside that thing and to get it off after 1 hour inside takes magician skills, as all of that plastic glues to your perspiring (there is no air inside) skin. It is truly a disgusting experience. So, I wanted a proper lite rain jacket that allows your skin to breathe. I am so overjoyed with happiness that I tip the grandmother 100,000 VND (around $3.85 USD) for her “personal shopping assistance” – as it was a true joy and I know for sure that I would have given up after 5 or 10 minutes with all of the crowds, pushing and shoving, and yelling in many different Asian languages. Just to note, most of the farangs stay over on the Jomtien beach side of Da Nang (Mỹ An, Mỹ Khê) and the Asians tend to stay on the Pattaya side of Da Nang (downtown Da Nang). It is the wide Han river that divides Da Nang into 2 parts. I was charged 450,000 VND (around $17.34 USD) for the rain jacket. Who knows if I was ripped off - as I hate groveling and bargaining - so I just accepted the first offer from the grandmother. If it manages to keep me dry in the next rainstorm - then I will be very happy. I am elated, as I managed to get out of the busy Han market in under 20 minutes – WOW!! So, I don’t want to return to my room yet – so I decide to walk the Han river until it ends at the sea – where the longest suspension bridge of Da Nang is located = Thuận Phước Bridge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thu%E1%BA%ADn_Ph%C6%B0%E1%BB%9Bc_Bridge The Han river promenade / walkway runs the entire length of the city until it ends at the base of the Thuận Phước Bridge. Here is an example of what the Han River Da Nang city side of the pedestrian walkway looks like At the Thuận Phước Bridge, the Han river terminates and empties into Da Nang Bay – which then leads into the East Vietnam Sea (aka South China Sea). The local Vietnamese get upset if you refer to “their” sea as the South China Sea. Note that in the above doctored image, that “sea #1” is where the Jomtien (Mỹ An, Mỹ Khê) beach area is located – where my AirBnB is. Note that there is also a “sea #2”, on the back side of Da Nang city that I still need to explore. Nobody talks about it but I would imagine that it must have stunning sunsets – because in the area where I am – it faces east and the sun sets behind the city. As that is very far away, I will need to rent a motorbike to go and explore it and this will give me an opportunity to drive across the impressive Thuận Phước Bridge. Thuận Phước Bridge – Da Nang’s Gateway to the South China Sea Now truly exhausted, my Google Timeline says that I have now walked 10km, so I hire a Grab car back to my condo for a fee of 126,000 VND (around $4.86 USD). I immediately take a shower – as I am totally sweaty and then off I go to to get a Chicken club poppy seed bagel and salt coffee before they close at 8pm. Note that here in Da Nang – most restaurants close at 10pm and if you enter at 9:30pm they are often reluctant to serve you in fear of you not being finished by 10pm. When compared to Pattaya (which has very late eating hours), and Cebu (where you can usually eat until 11pm), Da Nang is the most early to bed city that I have visited. This explains why the beach is already packed at 5am with all of the Vietnamese taking their morning swim – as they dislike the sun, like most of Asia. I return to my room and I am in the mood for a good movie, so I watch the film suggested by our forum member, @kokopelli3 Afterwards, call it a night totally satisfied with today’s adventures. End of day 19 in Da Nang – 12 May 2025

Thanks @kokopelli3 for this recommendation. I watched it last night on Google Play TV and I can highly recommend this film. Colin Firth is an excellent actor and since the film was directed by Tom Ford - who is the famous fashion designer - it is very evident in this film with all the attention to details that are made in both of the characters, Colin and also Julianne Moore - very stylish and her hair so amazing. I loved the way that Colin's character has all the luck in the world - with his sexy deceased partner, then one of his students at the university, and even a James Dean type of character from Madrid - all pawning for an opportunity to have sex with Colin.

Great first trip report. Thanks for sharing your new experiences with us. Don't worry about censoring your words with "US" here in this forum - we love censor free stories that are erotic and titillating. I hope that when you return you will share with us your fun again. 👍🤩

Day 18 in Da Nang – 11 May 2025 Lazy morning start to the day. Post yesterday’s trip report update. Mid afternoon, again back to for a nice lunch and a great salt coffee. I hire a Grab car to go to as I need to load up on some groceries that are only available in the bigger supermarket. I also take advantage of the presence of the that allows me to withdraw 10,000,000 VND (around $385 USD) in one go – thus saving on bank fees. Unpack the groceries back in my condo room and afterwards I start hunting for a massage. I am chatting with 3 different guys, but 2 of the 3 guys response rate is slow as a turtle. So, I go with the quicker guy from Heesay (formerly BLUED) – his profile is = KTV_masagess (Jack). Remember that the word “massage” is black listed in the Heesay system so everybody uses variations of the word in English or the Vietnamese word for massage = Mát xa. Most of the apps now invoke annoying filters for “illegal” words – more than likely to make their lawyers happy – but us as the human species – we enjoy finding work arounds to get around inconveniences created by lawyers. It is like a fun “cat and mouse” game. We move our conversation from Heesay over to where there are no “illegal” censored words where we are free to discuss things in an easier way. I share my location via the Zalo app, we fix a price for a 90 minute meeting of 1,200,000 VND (around $46 USD). At 8pm I go downstairs to meet Jack in the lobby but there is a rain storm – and so he arrives at 8:10pm. Usual routine, I ask if he wants something to drink from my fridge and he says no, as he came equipped with his own beverage. We go immediately to the designated massage room and we both get naked and I see that he is a meaty semi-muscular mature guy and he is not your typical skinny Vietnamese guy. His massage is excellent, strong, with elements of muscle stretching. When I turn over, then the fun starts – but he does it in a teasing way – to brush up on the balls and then move up to the nipples, then a few tugs on my cock and this teasing routine continues for a while – as I am caressing his firm manly body. Then he gives me a blowjob and I reciprocate the favor. He goes back to edging me and eventually I give way to the eventual end result. He takes a shower and I gather his money and then he is gone. Nice guy – not a man of many words – but a very good masseur. I clean up the room and shower and then I chat for a while and Hung – the manager of the massage shop, that I visited on Day 15 - Thursday 8 May, - sees me online in Heesay and tells me to come tonight to visit him in his shop. I tell him that I already had a massage tonight and that I can come and visit him in the next days – as I want a massage from the guy who is featured in his FaceBook photos = He replies to me – oh, he is not one of my staff – he is a customer. I was so disappointed. I tell him that he should not put his photo in his FaceBook page for marketing purposes. https://www.facebook.com/people/Hero-massage-spa/61575063357842/ He tells me – sorry. Then he proposes to me another guy who is one of his staff – and he is ok – but he does not make me horny like the guy in the above photo. When I eventually return to his shop – I will ask him if there is anyway that I can hookup with that customer of his. Do I have a chance? I may need to play that game = End of day 18 in Da Nang – 11 May 2025

Day 17 in Da Nang – 10 May 2025 Wake up feeling melancholy – as I have that feeling that after 3 years as a new retiree – things are not quite as I had hoped that they would be. I try to shake myself out of this mood by looking on the bright side of things: I am not stuck back in the USA on my reduced pension (I retired early) in a high cost country like the USA, which would be to live a poor minimalistic lifestyle, I am living in South East Asia, which had been my dream since my first work travel mission to Dhaka and Bangkok, back in 2012, Even with a reduced pension, I am able to live quite comfortably – as long as I stay within the confines of Asia – as life back in the USA and Europe are very expensive, relatively speaking. I post my 9 May trip report update – which meant to rehash everything that happened from yesterday. Afterwards, it is already mid-afternoon and I head back to - I am definitely a creature of habit. But their bagel sandwiches are so good and the barista, a very cute Vietnamese guy and so my type, prepares a very tasty and creamy salt coffee. Today the lobby is calm so I could eat and enjoy my bagel in peace. I head over to the beach for a nice walk on the promenade and there is this part of the beach walkway that is decorated in a VERY patriotic way: Seeing this makes me reminiscent of my early childhood, when we still had to practice civil defense drills, where depending on the drill, we had to either put our heads down on our desks to protect ourselves from an imminent attack, as the air aid siren was screaming in the background, -OR- we had to run down into the basement of the school into the designated civil defense area (like a bunker) – which I was always fascinated with as there were these humungous barrels of protected water and big storage areas of powdered milk, which we were told could help us to survive 10 years down there. I was a child in elementary school and I always found this to be crazy, as anything associated with the color red or any of the communist symbols was to be considered as “bad” or of being as our “enemy” - as the propaganda was very strong in that period. The irony is that now I find myself enjoying my retirement in a communist country = Vietnam and I love it. 20250510_161805.mp4 What is amazing in most Asian seaside towns is the vast abundance of seafood on offer. I grew up on Long Island, New York on the seaside, and we just did not have the variety of seafood that I find here in Asia. Perhaps we had 15 to 25 types that were available to us, but here in Da Nang I see 50 types or more. In many of the seafood restaurants, you enter into the giant aquarium area and you tell the waiter/waitress which seafood you want to eat by pointing to the specific aquarium and indicate which sea creature within the aquarium that you want to eat – it is all fascinating – as there are sea creatures that I have never seen in my entire life available for consumption. After a long walk on the beach, I head back to the room for a mini-nap and I try to find some guys to hook-up with – but I was not successful, as they either disappeared during the chat session or after a few exchange of pictures they don’t want to go with an guy with a belly. They are very anti-belly here in Da Nang and perhaps back in Pattaya / Jomtien the guys “fake” to tolerate our bellies – as Supertown is full of us elderly with bellies walking around. What I find funny, is how some of the Vietnamese guys in the apps will state that he is fat or has a belly and in my mind he is still in the realm of fit or skinny – so they are hypersensitive to fatness. It is very rare to see any overweight Vietnamese here. After my nap I head back to where I order the lamb enchiladas with a mango margarita. It was perfect. Later, I walk around the neighborhood and then head back to my condo and I chat with one of my Thai friends who is complaining that this low season is very bad and that in Pattaya everything has dried up. I tell him that he and his Thai friends need to push back on this current Thai government, as it is this current Thai government that has made Thailand appear to not be appealing, between the call center scams, tricking well known Chinese citizens into Myanmar, safety concerns with the escalating Southern Thailand insurgency, road/bus accidents, the forced deportation of the 40 Uyghurs back to China and the resulting multi-country backlash, the scandal surrounding the collapse of the SAO (State Audit Office) building during the earthquake, taxation of anyone residing in Thailand for more than 180 days who transfers funds into Thailand, etcetera. But as usual, my Thai friend(s) always reply that they are helpless. So I send him a photo of a proud moment from Thai history, when in 2008 the Thai citizenry had had enough with the then current Thai government, and they occupied the Suvarnabhumi airport and shut it down, which gained a ton of global exposure to the problems of Thailand. I told him, with all of you remaining in passive mode while this current government continues to deteriorate all of your individual futures – you must rise up and complain – otherwise I don’t see a bright future for all of you. https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/29/thai-court-acquits-dozens-who-shut-down-bangkok-airports-in-2008 I go to bed realizing that I did not make any headway, as this young generation of Thais is not as motivated to fix Thai problems as the proceeding generation of Thais from year 2008 were. So sad. End of day 17 in Da Nang – 10 May 2025

I love it - then BONGER it shall be. Plus it is a close cousin to its phonetically sounding BONER - which us old guys can still do -- although, sometimes with a little assistance from our friends: or

Wow!!! I love this post from @numazu. Thanks @PeterRS for taking the time to enter into the catacombs of our gayguide forum to dig it out of the archives. And I love this concept of a Monger index. This concept fits in very well with my ongoing experiment to compare 3 retirement destinations with each other: Cebu to Jomtien Da Nang to Jomtien Cebu to Da Nang So, maybe I need a modified Monger index for retirement life, that in addition to the cost of offing the local guys, also includes cost of living elements (food, rent, massages, entertainment, transpoetation, etc.) What could its name be? RRR index = Rainbow Road Retirement ??

I am sorry to disappoint the expectation - as I want to stay on the seaside, as I tend to not like big crowded inland cities 😪 like HCM. I have visited both Ha Noi and HCM in the past. One of the purposes of this trip is to find a Jomtien equivalent in Vietnam, which for me, so far, Da Nang wins in every category except for: - lack of a retirement visa in Vietnam, - no real gay entertainment scene where you can hook up with the local Vietnamese guys - there is no Supertown / Boyztown equivalent - as gay life here is mostly underground. In this area, Cebu had more of a gay life than Da Nang does.

Day 16 in Da Nang – 9 May 2025 Wake up in a positive and happy mood. I eat breakfast in my condo and I post yesterday’s trip report update. Afterwards, I return to for a great chicken club on poppy seed bagel with a Vietnamese salt coffee. Now I am getting addicted to this place. As this place is in the lobby of the hotel, today it was chaotic, as a large Russian tour group was checking out and waiting for their van transportation to arrive to pick them up – so they occupied most of the vacant Gordon’s Bagels tables and created a ruckus, as they had many children who were bored waiting for the van – so you can imagine the mayhem while I was trying to eat my yummy bagel. But, having been a child myself, I remember my unruly days when I was bored…. While I am eating, I get a disturbing message on from my ex boyfriend’s best and closest friend. He is telling me that he wants to come to Da Nang. I immediately understood the hidden message. I only reply with this emoticon hoping that it was a joke. Then he becomes more insistent and I reply that this would not be a good idea, as I am already on the road to broken heart recovery. He starts sharing with me nice pictures of my ex boyfriend’s new fruit salad business and I am pleased that it “appears” to be successful. There is some silence in our conversation, and I am not good at hiding my emotions, so I leave the bagel shop and I start a LONG walk to the end of Da Nang city, where the beach promenade ends and the road starts to go up into the mountains. The conversation picks up again and now my ex’s best friend is sharing with me messages written by my ex telling me to let him come to Da Nang and that we can restart our relationship. In that moment, I decided to BLOCK my ex’s best friend in and now I am really an emotional mess. Thank God no one knows me out here on the distant beach. As I BLOCK more and more Thai people in I get that awful feeling of being cut away from our starship known as, The Kingdom of Thailand --> where I am just drifting away into the abyss. Before today, I was making great progress in healing my heart 💔 – I was even able to start having sex again, without tears exiting my eyes. I guess, this is the battle with life, 1 step forward, 2 steps backwards…. By the time that I reach the start of the mountains and the city of Da Nang is now behind me, it is now getting dark and it starts to rain. I am actually happy, because today is my 16th day here, and it has not yet rained at all – so the raindrops feel good on my aching body. I dread the walk back, so I call a Grab car to take me back to civilization – it cost 106,000 VND (around $4.10 USD). This has been my most expensive Grab ride to date. By now it is more than 1 hour that I have BLOCKED my ex boyfriend’s friend – so I am doing better – as I am not being barraged with constant memories of my Thai love story. I don’t want to return to my condo room yet, so I go to eat my dinner at and I order the Blue Cheese burger with a nice beer (ci vuole). https://www.facebook.com/flyburgersvietnam/ Afterwards, I go back to my room and call it a night, as I am both emotionally and physically exhausted. Let’s hope that tomorrow will be a better day. End of day 16 in Da Nang – 9 May 2025

Day 15 in Da Nang – 8 May 2025 Wake up and eat my yummy almond croissant that I purchased yesterday at the I find that I am addicted to something that I have never ate before, Wasabi flavoured roasted cashews. Have you ever tried these? It acts as an excellent morning wake up call with that kick from the wasabi burning your nostrils. It becomes addictive and they are delicious. I post yesterday’s trip report update, respond to some friends back in Thailand, and read up more about the current UN80 crisis. It is already 2:30pm and I am hungry for lunch, so I peruse Social Samy’s Da Nang Treasure map and I choose to visit: . I am originally from New York, where bagels are king, and it has been many many years since I have eaten a wonderful bagel. It recently opened, and it is located in the lobby of the Da Nang LIVIE hotel. Hmm, ↑↑ nice rainbow colors on the ceiling ↑↑ – and the staff who served me was enticing. https://www.facebook.com/gordonsnewyorkbagels/ I ordered the Chicken Club on a poppy seeded bagel and it was absolutely delicious. It was wet, moist, and juicy, just how I like my men….🤪 I needed a good walk after all of that enjoyment, so I head back to and today I tried their walnut cake. It was good but yesterday’s strawberry meringue cream cake was so much better. By now, it is late afternoon, I am feeling horny, so I head over to: https://www.facebook.com/people/Hero-massage-spa/61575063357842/ https://www.instagram.com/hero_massage_spa/ This new massage place is only a 7 minute walk from my AirBnB condo building, and I sense that I may become a frequent visitor. I walk in, and Hung (yes his real name) tells me to sit down on the sofa (after removing my shoes) to enjoy a refreshing cool tea drink. Hung and I chat and he shows me the menu card, and there are many massage and/or waxing options. At the bottom of the menu card there are 3 types of King Massage listed, and this is where he discreetly explains to me that if you choose any of these massages that you can touch the masseur and be given extra pleasure. The differentiating point between these 3 types of King Massage are the time durations, of; 60, 75, or 90 minutes. I choose the 75 minute version for 1,500,000 VND (around $58 USD). Tip to the masseur is extra (as it is not included in the base rate). I am shown to my room – which is directly behind the reception area – but I tell him that I need to pee and then he brings me to the bathroom at the end of the corridor which also has one of those open showers (meaning the water goes everywhere). I return to the room and I get undressed and I put my belongings in a plastic box that he gave me which is then placed underneath the massage table. In comes the masseur, and it was Hung – so I was like, hmm, maybe this is a one man shop? More on that later. Hung massages me very professionally with long firm strokes. During the massage, another customer (he sounded British) came into the reception area, and since the room that I was in only has a window with a very slim curtain that separates my room from reception, I could hear everything. Makes the situation somewhat more invisible voyeuristic. Eventually, he puts my leg in the 7 position where he can then easily touch and stroke the genitalia. Eventually, he tells me to turn over and then the fun begins and he makes me a very long edging type of HJ and I caress his young skinny body. Hung is more twink than twunk. When all is finished, he wipes me down very thoroughly with warm wet towels removing the massage oil and HJ explosion juice. I get dressed and return to reception and now there is another Vietnamese guy working behind the reception computer. Hung and I discuss: He (Hung) is originally from HCMC – but moved to Da Nang 2 years ago – because he fell in love with Da Nang city, He (Hung) opened this new Hero massage shop 2 months prior, He (Hung) is 28 years old, I asked if I could take a photo of the menu card with prices and he would not let me – not sure if there are any local regulations about publicizing this type of information, There is a 4 hands option on the menu card --> and in his FaceBook page there is a photo of this hunk: Which I will try to book him on my next visit – wow!! 🤪😜 Stay tuned!! 🤩 Return back to my room feeling very elated and super relaxed – that I decide to skip to go out for dinner and instead I eat my banana cake that I had bought from the Torino bakery. It is still too early to go to bed so I decided to watch the film: WICKED on Google Play TV. I had heard mixed reviews when this film was originally released so I did not go and see it – but I really enjoyed it – as it is well done with amazing visuals, choreography, dance routines, singing and includes many hidden messages about discrimination, empowerment and self growth. So, I went to sleep on a very happy note. End of day 15 in Da Nang – 8 May 2025

Last year when I was visiting Da Nang, a local Vietnam guy told me that his entire family was put on a "black list" because his father had worked for the USA, when they were running military operations here in Da Nang. Consequently, none of them are allowed to have any government jobs.

In "cut-land" countries most guys are circumcised: Muslim countries, Israel, A large percentage of the male USA population.

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Day 14 in Da Nang – 7 May 2025 First thing that I notice when I wake up is there is already a message in my inbox from the motorbike shop owner. I feel guilty, but I ignore his message. I look outside from my balcony and the city has a funky strange low cloud cover – one that reminds me of my time in Denver, Colorado. The clouds are lower than the nearby mountain tops. Consequently, this puts me in a malaise mood and so I am lazy most of the day. I eventually go outside to eat a late lunch at . Afterwards, I decide to push myself to walk in a nearby neighborhood (as I tend to be a creature of habit) that I do not yet know – so I pick a French pastry shop from Social Samy’s Da Nang Treasure map and I walk there. I find that I like this new neighborhood, as it is full of narrow treelined streets with lots of shade and there are many interesting types of shops, bars, and restaurants. Torino Coffee & Bakery shop https://www.instagram.com/torinobakery.dn/ I chose a meringue creamy strawberry cake that was incredibly tasty and delicious. I asked for a salt coffee (Cà Phê Muối ) – but there was some confusion – as they don’t serve it – so I took the standard brown with condensed milk Vietnamese iced coffee (Cà Phê Sữa Dá). Before leaving I buy one almond croissant, coconut brioche, and 2 chocolate cookies for take away. I meander through this new neighborhood and when I get to my enormous condo complex, I enter from the opposite side to avoid the motorbike rental place that is directly across the street. Call me chicken. I take a great nap and when I wake up it is already dinner time – I guess all I do in retirement is to eat and walk around…. At dinner time, I walk around some of the other streets in the new neighborhood on An Thuong 4, 3, and 2 – as they are great small streets full of life and interesting places. A place that I saw earlier is packed so I settle on the Butcher Grilled restaurant. https://www.facebook.com/butchergrilled/ I ordered the Filet Mignon plate with 2 sides; Sauteed Asparagus and Sauteed Mushrooms. All was good and the meet was of good quality. However, the Australia Beef Tenderloin that I ate yesterday at the Pizza House was more tasty and cooked more to my liking. Yes, @floridarob, they do serve steak at the Pizza House – if you look at their menu that I posted yesterday you can see that the name is misleading as they are much more than pizza. Last year when I was here, I found this wonderful free standing ice cream shop that was in front of the JJ market – but it is no longer there. However, in this new neighborhood, I discovered the Gioia Gelati ice cream shop. Chocolate chip and Pistachio https://www.facebook.com/gioiagelati.vn DaNang_Gioia_Gelati.mp4 Before going to bed I respond to some of my former UN colleagues about the current new UN crisis, known as UN80: https://www.passblue.com/2025/05/06/the-world-is-changing-fast-it-is-now-crucial-to-restructure-the-un/ This entire crisis frustrates me, because when I was working for the UN during my 20 year career there – I often suggested reforms, efficiencies, and many other creative ideas about how to make the UN more effective, efficient, and good value for money. Unfortunately, it is a frozen bureaucratic dinosaur and probably 95% of my ideas were not considered, ignored, or rejected. Often during my career, they would ask us rank and file what ideas should be considered, when they would bring in the BIG outside consulting companies (i.e., Deloitte, EY, KPMG, PwC, etc.), where we were told to submit our ideas to them. Often, the draft proposal would be shown to us by the said consultants – but when the final draft would be released to the executive committee (EC)– often our ideas were already removed. Sometimes I would protest to the above mentioned consultants and they would tell us that the EC removed them – but the UN would then tell the world that they consulted with its rank and file. This was very degrading and disrespectful. Back in 2016 and 2017 I proposed an amazing idea (at that time – not so amazing in 2025) to use the blockchain to allow us to track our donor contributions on the blockchain, so that the money spent for our UN activities could be monitored in real time from when the funds leave the donor’s bank accounts, all the way through to the end beneficiaries (farmers, war victims, school children, etc.). What better way to be transparent and to allow our donors to see what we are doing with their contributions in real time. Nobody liked this idea. So, when I see the UN crying now because many governments are fed up with the chronic promises to reform, reorganize, etc. I do not feel much sympathy – because so many opportunities in my 20 years there ignored or wasted. And I was only 1 of thousands of employees whose ideas were ignored. Difficult to fall asleep – but eventually I manage. End of day 14 in Da Nang – 7 May 2025

I am sorry for what happened to you - but I could not live in a country (especially as a retiree), where there is constant fear, which causes you to need to live in a constant state of heightened alert. It is just too stressful and not worth it for me. In Jomtien - it is VERY rare that I feel afraid. In Cebu - there were some occasions where I felt afraid. I am now in Day 15 here in Da Nang and I have not yet encountered any situations that made me feel afraid 🤞

This is an interesting phenomena I have never understood. Why do many cities around the world have several names. Why can't we be forced to call cities by their native names? Rome = Roma Milan = Milano Florence = Firenze etc.

Great trip report Jamiebee. By the way, happy belated birthday. If during your next visit to LOS I am also there, it would be nice to meet up.

I just checked out their Twitter (X) feed = @SuckdGloryTokyo and most of the photos that they posted are of Westerners sucking off other guys cocks. So, perhaps give it another try and what the guy told you about Mask night was true - as per their Twitter (X) feed.

I think what happened to #17 is good for his longer term success. I have found him to be over confident and too heavy into his phone (i.e., social media). #17 is super sexy and has great potential, BUT he needs an ocassional reality check to make him be more conscious about how his behaviour has a direct impact on his potential and/or acquired customers.

Is there already a RFC club in Rio? My fear is not about the balcony. What is great about the high balconies and the PFC concept is that it empowers you on how you can control the destiny of your life. My fear of Brazil is down on the street level, where other vicious factors can be controlling the destiny of my life without my permission.

No, not yet. All of the potential crime scenarios that I read about freaked me out. When I am on vacation I don't like being in that heightened state of emergency alert mode - I find it exhausting at my age. I liked the Da Nang one better just because the menu has more variety.

Day 13 in Da Nang – 6 May 2025 First revelation - no diarrhea today - as I only ate farang food yesterday. This is both good and bad news - as I want to eat lots of Vietnamese food during my 130 day stay as I really like Vietnamese food. Perhaps, I can't eat the yummy banh mi baguettes but I can eat everything else? Earlier in this trip report series, I complained that it is difficult to meet local gays that are not ashamed to be seen in the streets of Da Nang with you. After eating breakfast in my condo I decide that after my 6 day motorbike rental that I will return it to the shop – as I find that I am not using it as much as I had expected. The motorbike is great to go up the coastal mountain road – but that is not something that I do every day and during the daytime it is just too hot to be out and about on the motorbike. The motorbike shopkeeper tells me to sit down and with Google translate we start to have a conversation about life, how many days I will be here, do I have family, am I traveling alone --> when he just blurts it out --> If you feel lonely you can invite me up to your room for some fun 🤔🤨 I was like WOW – very bold – unfortunately he is not at all my type. So, lesson learned, I complained earlier about the difficulties about meeting local gay Vietnamese and “the universe provided”. Therefore, be careful what you wish for…. Our conversation starts to get uneasy – and so I keep saying to him can I have my Thai driving license back. Then he says, let’s go to lunch – and then I lie to him – oh, I am sorry, I am going to meet some foreign friends for lunch and they are already waiting for me. Then he says, ah, I am not your type? I don’t say anything – but I nod my head in an Indian fashion so that he understands that I am not interested. Then he finally gives me my Thai driving license and then he says to me, “I LOVE foreign guys – so if any of your foreign friends are single and lonely – please send them to me”. Before I can escape, we exchange our ZALO contact information. I go to eat my Bo Né lunch with salt coffee by myself. As it is now around 16 days since my last haircut and color treatment, I decide that today will be my first haircut and color in Da Nang. About 1 year prior, Social Samy (one of the popular local YouTube bloggers) did a segment on the NHỰA STYLE BARBER SHOP which I really liked. When I met Samy at the beginning of this trip, I asked him why isn’t this barber shop not in his Treasure Map, and he tells me because he did not like the way that they trimmed his beard. I told him about my great difficulties in year 2019 getting my hair cut and colored in Phu Quoc and Samy told me – don’t worry – this shop is ok for hair color for men. https://www.nhuastyle.vn/ This barber shop is really cool, as it has been created with a gothic JOKER style theme, which is very entertaining. My assigned barber, BIN, is really good and took the time with Google translate (for the more technical aspects of our conversation) and wanted to see past pictures of my hair color treatments to understand what type of look that I was desiring. BIN did a great job – and during the part of the treatment where you need to kill 30 minutes for the color to take hold – he cross-sold me an optional ”Remove Earwax” service with his female colleague . At first I was apprehensive, as I have never let anyone touch the inner parts of my ear. Him and his female colleague allayed all of my fears and I agreed to the service. They said that it might be a tiny bit painful – but instead I found it slightly ticklish – in a pleasant way. That procedure took about 20 to 25 minutes – and so when it was finished I had my hair rinsed and then sent back to BIN for the final touch up and blow dry and wax. I would definitely return to this shop – as I really liked the funky artistic environment, the high exciting energy of all of the young Vietnamese that work there and the customers that visited the shop were all fun people – not surprising – as Da Nang attracts a young farang digital nomad type of crowd as its primary tourist base. I paid 300,000 VND for the hair color treatment + 70,000 VND for the haircut + 50,000 VND for the ear cleaning for a total of 420,000 VND (around $16.20 USD). Back in Jomtien, I pay 1,200 THB (around $36.65 USD) for my hair color treatment + haircut. So, the cost in Da Nang is 56% less than in Jomtien – so very good value for money. Here is a nice video interview of some hot Brazilian getting his haircut in this shop: After my haircut I walked over to to eat a scrumptious coconut cream cake with a dark Vietnamese iced coffee. Life is good. I head back to my condo and prepare yesterday’s trip report update and respond to some queries. Afterwards, I log into Heesay (formerly BLUED) and I start chatting with user = CalBOy_18cm. From his profile I can see that he is a sexy 27 year old with a big cock. Note that in Cebu the key words for escorts were "Hire" or "Hire me" - but here in Da Nang, the key words are centered on variations of the words "Call Boy". His English capabilities are near zero, so after many back and forth I think that I have made him understand what I am looking for and then he sends me the below boiler plate message that obviously someone else who knows English better prepared for him. I tell him – oh, I am sorry – that we cannot meet, as it is written that you don’t accept anyone over the age of 40 and “too fat”. I tell him my real age and that I have a belly. There is no reply for a long time so I continue to peruse and write to other profiles. After about 20 minutes he writes that he accepts my proposal (massage + edging). We agree that he will come to my condo at 7pm and at 7:05pm he arrives and we go up to my room. He does not speak at all and he just undresses and takes a long shower. I try to offer him something to drink from the fridge – but he just does not understand me. He writes me a message that he forgot his massage oil and then I give him my coconut cream that I brought with me from Jomtien. The beginning of the massage is perfect – he has good talent and rhythm. However, he has a big erection and he keeps rubbing it on me. At a certain point, he stops massaging me and spreads my legs to start sucking my cock – eventually we turn over and the massage is cut short and we go into an intense 69 and he eventually cums on my chest and he goes to take another shower. He has a beautiful cock and I believe that it was really 18cm. I am waiting for quite a while when he returns to the massage room (I rented a 2 bedroom condo and 1 bedroom is the designated massage room) and I am waving my erect cock at him and he is already dressed ready to leave. I wave the money at him and point to my cock and he then gets undressed and makes me a decent edging until orgasm. What was he thinking? He cums and goes? I thought the mantra often cited in this forum is: “I cum and he goes….” I prefer that we both cum – but in this case his approach was strange. I paid him a premium price (agreed to prior during the chat negotiations - to make an exception to his rule that he does not go with guys over the age of 40 with some fat) = 1,500,000 VND (around $58 USD). Would I hire him again? Probably not because it was difficult to connect with him, he was too mechanical, and the massage part was too short. But it was fun and to-date he was the most sexy of the massage guys that I have had so far here in Da Nang. I clean up and I head over to Casa Loco (the Mexican place that I tried to get into yesterday but it was full) and tonight it is almost empty. https://www.facebook.com/casalocodanang/ I order the delicious and filling Lamb Barbacoa Quesadillas and a coconut Margarita. The Mexican food here is very good and the above menu is only 1 page out of 4 pages. Now I understand why it is highlighted in Samy Social’s Da Nang Treasure map. I head back to my room stuffed, but I need to stay awake, because at midnight it will be the birthday of my good Thai friend who owns a bar in Supertown. So, exactly at 0:00am, I send him his birthday message and gift and he is so happy, because he told me that I was the FIRST person to wish him a happy birthday. We chat for a few minutes and then I tell him good night and I fall asleep. End of day 13 in Da Nang – 6 May 2025

Oops, my bad. Yes, I should have stated M Bar my senility is kicking in.

Then I am the exception to what you wrote above. Already in year 2025, I have resided in Cebu in the Philippines for 59 days and it is planned that I will reside in Da Nang, Vietnam for 130 days this year --> for a total of 189 days outside of Thailand in this tax year. So, this is definitely costing me a pretty penny - but I am doing it for principals sake - as I am opposed to the new Thai government income tax on incoming bank transfers for tax residents. Regarding being a "big spender" - call me a previous "fool in love" where I spend inordinate sums of money on my last 2 Thai boyfriends - both were in Jomtien. I would prefer to NOT be a foolish "big spender" - but matters of the heart sometimes make us do foolish things.... So, probably due to my previous foolishness, I believe that after I return from Da Nang to Thailand, that I will fall into the limited spending category - as I try to rebuild my depleted savings.

Where do the below 3 hybrids fit in? Are they not a type of gogo bar ? The Best Bar in the Jomtien Complex (aka Supertown) has a gogo boy segment in their 4 times each week sexy show. They dance with erections in tight swim bikinis and if you want to tip them they will let you insert the money into their swim trunks and touch their hard cocks inside the swim trunks. M2M - As part of their nightly cabaret show, it has a segment where they are only in bath towels where they reveal what is inside and if you tip them, they allow you to insert your hand behind the towel to squeeze the goods. Also, independently of the sexy show the boys will sit with you and reveal their hard erections where you can use a pillow to gain some privacy for some fun. Gus Bar - You sit on sofas where the boys come and sit next to you and you can play with their exposed private parts using the pillows to create a type of privacy.