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Originally Posted by Dollythehun
If I may ask, you are there due to work? I gather your home is in CA? I hope I am not being too nosy...
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Hi Dolly, no problems you are welcome to ask. Actually, there was a thread some time back from me offering a pictorial tour of my Bangkok neighborhood when I was still a newbie expat living in Thailand. Maybe if you do some digging you'll find it, unless it's been yanked off when its "shelf life" expired (it's been a couple of years.)
In sum, I took early retirement and resettled in Thailand in 2014. Prior to that I couldn't imagine when a friend told me he moved to Vietnam with an one-way plane ticket in one hand and a single suitcase in the other ("that one's life boiled down to the essence", he said). Nevertheless, not long after it was my turn to make the same "rite of passage." So never say never.
Life is good. To be specific, Bangkok has ruined me for any place else. Simply walking down the street is enchantment, maybe not enough for other folks, but aplenty for me. For example, the color palette you have noticed is just part of the seduction, once you are fed on that on a daily basis, anything less would be just eastern-bloc drab!
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The only fly in the ointment is that the harsh sun here combined with big city air pollution and the hightly-chlorinated water have caused me to have eczema, which I never thought would happen because I used to be avid beach bum in Southern California. I have learned to live with that but am starting on the look out for a "summer" retreat somewhere by the seaside where I can escape for a week or so at the time for the benefit of ocean air and sea water. So "Welcome and kick off your flipflops!" indeed,
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A trip upcountry (pics heavy!!) - part II
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