Before revealing the moment that almost made me fall to my knees and return home while still at Bangkok Airport let me tell you about my mental status of that morning. The night before leaving Australia I was so excited that I couldn’t sleep more than an hour or two. Although the Thailand Pass was…

I grew up in a very poor family in a village just outside of Khon Kaen in Isaan which is around 450 kilometers north of Bangkok. I have three brothers all older than me. My dad ran off with another lady when I was about 10 years old leaving my mother to raise us by…

In the mid 90s I was a young sailor in the Navy and while on deployment we were scheduled to pull into port in Phuket for three days. I was so excited. All of the older sailors would tell us stories about the place that seemed too good to be true. I was amazed by…

Let me start this story by giving you a bit of background on myself. You can call me Bill. I’m an American and was in the U.S. Navy from the late 1980s through to the mid 1990s and I saw quite a bit of traveling to Europe North Africa the Caribbean and the Mediterranean. After…

I never had the desire or interest to visit Thailand. It was never on my radar. In 2008 I was traveling in India for almost two months and ended up in Kathmandu Nepal with several friends. We were basically killing time there until our flight left. I talked to the airline to see if there…

The first time I came to Pattaya was in February 2019 for a 10 day holiday. I met a girl called Om. Back home we kept in touch on Messenger. She dreamed of going to Jomtien but had never got the chance. I said ‘As it’s your birthday present I’ll take you to Jomtien.’ She…

I wanted to share an experience I had in Phuket two years ago. My parents live in Phuket so I normally visit during the holidays every year. I come back to train at a Thai gym where I meet many different people from around the world. I went to Kudo Beach to have dinner and…

After hearing many of your subscribers’ stories I thought I would send you mine as I think it’s an amusing lesson and that I pretty well got my just desserts. It could have ended a lot worse. This was about 15 years ago. I was on holiday in Phuket staying at the quiet Laguna area…

Before I get to my next story one thing I’ve asked myself is why do I keep returning to Asia after so many tours in 35 years of doing so? Well I’m not a drinker nor do I do drugs which I mentioned in my first submission so hanging around a bar getting plastered is…