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…
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…
The entire experience of Thailand began in a small city in Canada in 2007. I had been dating a Chinese Singaporean at the beginning of my third year of university. We had a very stable relationship and I felt the relationship was quite worth it. Unfortunately, after about a year into it, she was visiting…
I became the nice guy in a Thailand bar triangle. This story is quite different from most of the stories I had heard, and it shows how things can go wrong in Thailand. It really is quite upsetting to hear all the stories about how so many people have had their lives completely ruined and…
If you’re looking for a way to describe me as a person before all this happened to me, you wouldn’t be too far off the mark if you called me green around the ears when it came to all things Thailand. My story starts when I was 42 years old. I was single. I had…