After years of watching videos and reading forums about Thailand, I finally made the trip myself. I had been working long hours in Dallas, saving up and dreaming of warm nights, cold beers, and the kind of freedom I hadn’t felt since my 20s. Bangkok was the first stop. I had booked 10 nights at…

My first trip to Thailand began April 12th, 2023 in other words, the beginning of the first full blown Songkran Water Festival in Bangkok since before COVID 19. I’m an American who was in his early 60s, retired, and I’ve never visited Southeast Asia. I was planning some of the hotel and city schedule destinations…

The first time I went to Thailand was in 2010. Like many people who go, I loved it. There wasn’t anything I disliked about Thailand. And no, I wasn’t one of the guys who liked to go to the bars all the time. I preferred doing more cultural things going to the temples, going to…

I had been going to Thailand for many years before I finally made the decision to move there after I was offered a teaching job on my last visit. The job offer was the final push I needed, as far as I can remember I wanted to get out of my own country, so I…

Although I did not lose a lot of money, mainly because I didn’t have any, I still had a wild ride and I think a story worth telling. I ended up in a relationship with a Thai bar girl that was just filled with nightmare after nightmare, a lot of jealousy, anger and emotional wreckage….

The bar was empty. It was empty. I thought it must have always been empty, and that’s why I went in in the first place. If I saw loads of guys in there, there would have been no chance that I would have bothered going inside. I wasn’t very much of a people person. In…

I am unfortunately another farang statistic that, against all the advice I was given, I still tried to chase and be with a Thai bar girl. The fact that I am writing this, you probably already know how this story is going to end. I first went to Thailand in the winter of 2023. This…