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Greetings boss. The answer is YES I prefer ENVY! and so do all the sissies I ever asked which of the 2 they'd rather hang out at with a view to their unhitched peers. Phillies retains the nostalgia value for me of 2 decades plus watching the street sissies from there, but the fact is that Envy has just as good a panoramic view and much better fittings, much finer cuisine, and, counterintuitively when you see how nicer it looks, CHEAPER food and drink prices than Phillies, including for cocktails which is what I tend to drink. The sissies ALL prefer Envy I am sure for the fancier ambiance, namely sitting on couches with their nightly ATMs' catch for the less fortunate street hunting sissies to watch and weep... As I write this TR installment, it's mid-morning and I am in bed with 2 conked out sissies. I will not be buggering either of them further as I just did so a few hours ago (per the initiative of one of them) and need to recharge my senior citizen schlong for some pussy that is on a bus coming here and due to arrive in the next hour or 2. Yes PUSSY. Stinky MILF pussy of my ex-Manila whore who I first met 20 years ago when she was undisputedly the hottest go-go dancer in EDSA. I featured her in my last TR when we reunited after losing track of her for like 6 years (I suspect she was in jail some of that time for substance abuse). As regards this trip, I made her wait one week during which I focused on the sissies, but now is the turning point on the trip (and TR) where I switch to pussy for the next 2 weeks and will be back to sissies only once when I get back from the Visayas and when afterwards I go to TH. The MILF is bisexual with a preference for cute butch GGs and she will join me in group sex with the sissies if they are comfortable with it (most aren't). Yesterday I binge watched series and had sissy sex during the day and at night went to the ABC Hotel's Aqua Club with John Lennon and Bouncy who loved frolicking in the multiple pools and jacuzzies with the hot bikini-clad GGs. The great Humphrey tends to hang out there, but did not last night. Somes pics:

greetings snoop. great to see you posting here. Tamiya is still around and was one of the 2 bekis in the barangay shuttle I mentioned in my previous post and is just barely recognizable in the pic I posted. Looksee: I did not dare to take a better pic of Tammiya and risk one of her public furies. I want nothing to do with her and she knows it. Regarding other local sissies you know from 2022: Candy is out every night selling her ass in glamorous sequin dresses. She greets me but avoids joining me. Humphrey rose to undisputed local Queen Bee with Carla/ Lu Sierra's departure from the scene after the 30,000 $ watch theft. I would love to revisit with Humphrey and she is giving me a chance to, but quoted 10K LT which she hinted she might reduce for me but even if she halved it would still be more than double my standard rate. Fair enough: Humphrey has a reputation to uphold but so do I. Btw, she goes by Yam Imperial now. You may also remember the lanky sissy I called John Lennon because she looked like the Beatles one. Not so much anymore. She no longer wears the round gold-rimmed glasses and has a more feminine long hairdo. If I hadda pick an oldies rock star, she looks more like Rita Coolidge. Maybe I should start calling her that. Rita Coolidge. As to my trip, I hesitate to continue to post pics of my room with sissies that come and go during my leisurely days here. Of course I don't fuck them all. And at night I limit the sleepovers to 3 because we don't fit more than 4 to the bed, and the hotel might say something if I have more. So far they seem amused by my poligasissy. Here is some pics from last night when I reconnected with a pre-covid sissy friend who goes by Bouncy. Used to hustle in Fields but has become a street vendor of actual merchandise not sex. One of the best fucks of my life. There is nothing she won't eagerly do and actually begs me to A2M her without condom. Fantastic GFE kisser and 69er for 1 hour+ uninterrupted.

Thanks PG. Better I clarify what you mean for the benefit of BMs less versed on my previous TRs: The "fish are back in the sea" refers to the AC street ladyboys being out in the streets again which was not the case when I was here last due to nightly police sweeps (I may however have spoken too soon; read below). The "specimen hidden on an island" refers to a sweet ultra-feminine ladyboy I met in the remote Visayas island of Daram where I went for a festival and to chase another local sissy. She was indeed "cunning" in subsequently getting me to pay for her to come meet me in Manila, but I did NOT "spend a fortune" and it was not entirely "a waste of time and money" because we had a wonderful night of GFE sex. As an update: that "cunning" sissy has moved from the island to the Manila area and I may be hooking up with her later this trip ... I spoke too soon. Last night (my second night) the police was back in action pushing sissies into their dog pound shuttle. I saw 2 old fucks of mine (both featured here at LBR, one of them gold-painted head to toe) being pushed into the shuttle smack in the middle of Walking Street as I perched at Kokomo's having a Singapore Sling. I went over to try to get them off the shuttle. One of their captors wanted to release them to me, but the one in charge objected. Off they went (pics below). But perhaps the cops were just fulfilling some kind of daily quota because plenty of sissies remained undisturbed in the Phillies-Envy crossing the rest of the night. I subsequently learned the 2 apprehended ones were let go after only one hour, unlike those I reported a couple months ago who were detained till dawn. As to my sissy dalliances yesterday, I reunited with my main AC sissy who I've been casting here in the board for the last 2 years under the stage name "John Lennon" because she looks a lot like the great departed Beatle. I also reunited with my second in command sissy the one I cannot show here because of her relationship with a committed western sponsor. In the course of the day, scrumptious cock Cristina showed up and brought a friend which raised my sissy entourage to 4 and the 5 of us spent some time in my room with me tutoring them Bukkake 101. We all swam in the pool afterwards and 2 stayed overnight. They slept like angels and I woke up very early and took all kinds of oral liberties with their rock hard morning cocks and hairy asses, none of which they noticed/remembered me doing while they slept like angels. As a result of the accompanying jerking and vigorous fucking one of them after the other left, I hurt myself in a way that would be TMI to reveal here, so tonight I am going to sideline the romrod. That's all. The pics give a better idea of what happened.

For the record: Along with making this post, I hoovered 10 previous ones, including 3 of mine, of what was a typical threadfuck escalation that had nothing to do with the TR that starts now. Spot on Dan. I arrived in Angeles City PH yesterday and my carefully laid out weeks in advance plans for the first night did not materialize at all and instead I went to bed with 3 sissies I had never seen before. But first a quick word about the trip. Took me 27 hours door-to-door including a 7 hour wait to change planes in Abu Dhabi. Once I got to Manila airport I took the direct bus from there to AC which is convenient and cheap but added another 2 and a half hours of extra-exhaustion to the trip. I am getting too old for such trips where I don't rest horizontally for so long. My tailbone really started to hurt when I was sitting on the plane, something that has only recently started to happen and gets worse on every trip. I mentioned in the OP that my first night was reserved for an old acquaintance sissy for 1-on-1 secret welcome back lovemaking and that afterwards she would pass me on to her kid sister since the older one was in a committed relationship and could not afford to be seen with me. None of it happened. Here is how it went: Both sisters (brothers technically, but let's go with 'sisters') were expecting me and kept texting me while I was on the bus from Manila to AC affirming how they were ready and willing to meet me on arrival. In the course of the separate chats, it became apparent they wanted to BOTH stay with me that first night. The older one said it was OK. So after getting settled in the hotel I arranged to meet them for dinner at Kokomo's and they said they were on their way but never showed up. I finished my dinner and moved on to Envy and told them I'd wait there for them and they reiterated they were on their way. Never showed up and eventually conceded they were helping their mother clean house and would rather meet the following day. Perhaps true; perhaps they were with another guy. Not a problem for me. More like an opportunity. For those not familiar, Envy is a restaurant across from Philies' bar in the street where the AC sissies mostly congregate. So once I got to Envy I was instantly recognized and greeted by upwards of 10 sissies who knew me and I bought drinks to 4 or 5 of them. I also saw upwards of 10 I had never seen before and bought 2 or 3 of them drinks also while waiting for the 2 sisters to show up, which took like an hour to establish they weren't coming. Some of you may recall that in my previous TR I reported that AC's street sissies were being nightly rounded up to the local precinct and there were hardly any to be seen walking around. No longer the case. Sissies are back in force at Phillies, including some very attractive new ones, some of whom may be underage. I may have talked to one of those who showed me a clearly fake ID so I passed and advise other eventual shoppers to do likewise. I did meet 2 who were very much my tipe. Cristina and Yin who came with a 3rd chubby one whose name I did not retain. CRISTINA - The moment I spotted her I was smitten. She is very much my type. Almost 6 feet tall, rail skinny elegant, and with a touch of blasian (black + Asian) exotism. I would soon find out she also had a big meaty juicy schlong. She was eager for business and agreed to come with me LT at my discounted wholesale rate and the sex was awesome with emphasis on me sucking that whopper of a cock (remember I don't do sissy cock in Europe so this being my first night I was eager to). She was not that eager at reciprocating, but one thing she liked was kissing and we voraciously tonguefucked each others' mouths for at least half an hour, which is something that rarely happens on a first time with a prosti. However after mutual orgasms, she wanted to leave and I let her go at half the agreed LT fare and she left without fussing. Despite being exhausted I went back out for a last drink and ran into her on the street again, so I guess she was seeking another ST...It's fine by me: I bought her another drink. YIN & PORKY PIG - I slept by myself but not more than 4 hours. I got up early to take my dirty laundry (I bring my clothes dirty from Europe to be washed here on the cheap by someone else) and to do another errand. On my way out I passed Phillies and 5 or 6 of the previous night's sissies were still out there at 7:30 AM. One of them was another tall elegant one I had met a few hours before and so I invited her for breakfast. She eagerly accepted but asked to bring along her friend who was a chubby very feminine sissy who in another context would easily pass for a homely fat GG. We ended up going to my room the 3 of us just for sleeping but sex happened immediately. First with Yin who also has a whopper of a cock, but who does not kiss because she is bad breath self-conscious, and after we woke up with Porky Pig who was very eager and grateful for what I did to her. The idea was for us to hang out at the hotel pool, but they left abruptly after one of them got a phone call. I post below some pics of the 3 of them which is very generous and daring of me considering this is less than 24 hours after the pics were taken and I am going to be here for at least a week and could get heroed... This is not something any other currently active BM here would do, so please those BMs inclined to disparage me for being a show-off please cut me some slack...

I respect that (not posting cock pics) and I also refrain to some extent. My rule is if they are already naked or XXX on internet sissy sites, I rationalize it's OK for me to also expose them since they already had willingly exposed themselves. For example TJ's Lily's no one at PY but me dared post (or even take?) peeps of her despite the fact that she was all over the internet getting barebacked by the black t-shirt guy who owns PY (anyone care to contradict me about him ?) ... Back at PY, I used to post my best XXX pics and it made me popular as hell with the majority of BMs but also generated a lot of jealousy under the pretext of moralism from a few BMs and mods who were the petty type. Eventually those mods banned me and after joining LBR I was wary of ever again sharing my best stuff for the benefit of hostiles and, compared to PY, I post here fewer and less spectacular peeps for which I apologize but I am still as far as I can see this board's top purveyor of naked sissies (and Gags!) since Antartico. What about you Dan Miller? what is your reason for not posting your homemade peeps? ... considering you post internet ones of BKK sissies you know...

The 2024 ROM LILY CHALLENGE is ON. Dan, you will have a 2 week head start on me next month in TH so if you go to Pattaya, fuck Lily and post some cock pics here (hers not yours!). You too Woody. Get back on the saddle and fuck her and post photos instead of poetry. Or else gentlemen:... just watch me and learn...

It's OK PG. I won't be arriving in Pattaya for at least a month (first the PH) so a couple BMs cockfighting for Lily's preference recognition is a welcome warm up act to my main event. Now may I remind the 2 cockfighters that it was ME - Daddy Rom! - who was Lily's FIRST BARFINE EVER (in BKK) as informed by her and confirmed by Dan Miller after meticulous due diligence. I concede that she did not recognize me right away when we saw each other again after she moved to Pattaya but once she did she remembered every little detail of our kinky lovemaking... But, but, but she might well be pissed at me for never coming back to barfine her and as a result refuse to LT me ... so not sure it will happen for us even if I try ... Like Woodie, I am not inclined to take her for "sloppy seconds" which I did a lot of (in fact sloppy 3rds, 4ths,..., Nths) with the other Lily (the TJ's Diva) for the brief period in 2019 she seemed interested in sleeping in my arms the rest of the night and waking up to GFE sex. The new Lily is a different kind of awesome and I posted pics of her in BKK before and post a couple below. I really hope to be with her again and to have at least the illusion that I am a special farang to her, more so than the rest. I will eagerly follow Dan's upcoming field reports to see if he repeats with Lily and if he assesses her not to be spoiled yet by Pattaya's prosti lifestyle. Cheers all

More like a "telenovela" of complicated love interests and betrayals. Thanks I'm flattered you said that. I know that unplanned for situations will arise, new fuck opportunities will present themselves, and some of my targeted fucks will not happen or be a disappointment. That is why it is so exciting to continue to travel as every trip has its new challenges and successes. But much of what I wrote above will happen. I already informed some of them I am coming and made PH boat and flight reservations in the names of 2 of them. Plus I look forward to seeing all of them again and believe they feel likewise. We will probably run into each other in TH Dan Miller and will be crossing swords (no! not those!) No I would not feel embarrassed. I'd just post to say I could not travel and nobody would give a damn one way or the other. What I am already embarrassed about the TR is what I posted in the OP. After rereading all of it just now it sounds like the ramblings of an old sex maniac with dreams of grandeur and a porn-loving teenage mindset ... "Identical sissy twins" ??? Morbidly obese BBWs" ???? ... What's wrong with me?

PS - I just realized the previous post may well have been THE FIRST TR EVER POSTED BEFORE THE TRIP EVEN STARTED. Cheers.

The board has been kinda quiet and I would like to contribute more posts but I am not so well-versed in the topics that come up so I will contribute how I know best which is with yet another TR, or non-TR how I call them sometimes even though they are just like TRs but ones where I skip parts and effort. Let's see how this one turns out. Here goes: In 2 weeks I will be back in the PH and at some point I will hop over to TH and return to Europe from there. The trip has an important business purpose that will probably take me 2 or 3 days in Manila and the rest of the time (up to 2 months ??? no return date ticket ) will be buggery and sightseeing. Such frequent and lengthy trips over the last 2 years have metamorphosed me into what I would self-label a "semi-sexpat" as opposed to my former status of "frequent sex tourist" coming on visits that rarely exceeded a week and had me on a constant sense of urgency to have sex with as many young sexy partners as I could while I was in Asia, especially with the ladyboys who were not available to me at any price in farangland. So after starting with the lengthier trips, like the sexpats of PH-TH I lost that sense of mating urgency and built my own network of local fucks, some of who are commercial barfines or freelancers but several are not and require not explicitly money for sex ... and even some of the more commercial ones stopped clocking me and do not count whatever I choose to give them in the morning ... The only sexpat thing I did not develop so far was a committed relationship (not all sexpats do) with a native even though in the minds of 3 or 4 of my network fucks I am the closest thing they have to a partner. In the process of building the network I have met many lonely asian GGs, some approaching my age and their company has been extremely pleasurable both in bed and in doing other things together. This has resulted in me spending more and more time with GG women in Asia than I realize I should if I want to make the most of the ladyboys while I am there. The women GGs are also more tenacious at staying in touch afterwards and declaring how much they miss me and plan for my return, which weighs on my decision to seek them out again. All this to say that as I contemplate a 2 month trip, the fuck agenda for it is almost all filled up with reserved days for partners I scored on previous trips. Let me give you an idea of what awaits me: I fly to Manila and will take a bus at the airport directly to AC where already my first night is reserved for a sissy who used to threesome with me and another sissy I call John Lennon. That sissy now is in a love relationship with an absent afam (PH meaning like "farang") and we can't risk her losing the remittances by being seen with me. So she will discreetly join me at the hotel for the first night of 1-on-1 reacquainting lovemaking. What comes after that will be that word will get out Daddy Rom is in town and by the afternoon the next day the pool at my hotel will be swarming with sissies. Some, like the aforementioned John Lennon, expect to just move in into my room. If I let him I can still take my nightly picks from the rest of the sissies, as well as from 2 or 3 sissy-friendly AC GG sluts. But there is a jackpot waiting for me in AC: The sissy who reserved me for the first night is going to set me up with his younger sissy BROTHER with a view to covering up her fucks to me and she is agreeable to the 3 of us partying together, including in bed. They are not identical twins like I would prefer, but they are full brothers, I mean SISTERS from same daddy and mommy... Not bad way to start preparing a trip. I am just going to play it by ear with the AC sissies for a week after which (and only after which) I will summon to AC my old retired Ermita prosti friend who I reunited with on my last trip for the kinkiest butt sex ever including group sex with sissies and other GGs (the old prosti is bisexual, more into GGs actually). Then I will take her only with me to Manila for 2 days while I am there on business and in my spare time for 3sums with a mutual acquaintance sissy from Ermita and once I finish my business we will sail away just me and the old prosti to the Visayas where we will honeymoon 3 or 4 days alone after which I will put her on a plane back to Luzon while I take a boat to another nearby Visaya island where another total GFE non-prosti MILF awaits me who does not know I am into sissies and paid sex. Everyday she sends me messages reiterating how much she is in love with me and misses me. I will stay with her a week after which I will return to Manila finish my business and reconnect with a lovely sissy student there I call Mowgli. If no other old or new crushes come up, I will depart to TH as soon as I can and try to spend at least 2 weeks there. I plan to go straight from the airport to Pattaya where another bucket list of recent fucks awaits me, including the Duangjai sissy who moved in with me on my last trip and followed me to Trang and BKK. He keeps calling me everyday to say how much he misses me. But when I asked if I can get her honey with less money, the answer was Lekhthi. As hot and kinky as she is, this time I am not going to limit myself to TH monogamy. So here is who I plan to call first while avoiding going up Chayapoom to not break the Duangjai sissy's heart (this will also preclude me going to Delirious where there is one I'd like to refuck). 1st on the list is CS's Lily. Last trip she was pissed at me for not barfining her after she said she would stay LT. Let's see if the offer stands. I expect LT with Lily to be at least through siesta time with an option to prepay another night barfine. I really hope Lily wants to stay with me and if she does it could be the end of Pattaya butterflying as she is really awesome to sleep with and if I shoo her away again I may never get another chance. Then there is Anny from Bon Bar. She is the too-curvy-feminine-not-my-type ladyboy I am obsessed with. We never LTed and I will try yet again but if she passes again I will ST her which last time I did not... 2 or 3 STs please... she does give me the general Pattaya rate. Gosh! I can't get enough of that cock dangling from her girlie ass... Then there is Icesy an adorable lanky sissy Pdoggg mentioned here and I tracked and fucked (and who like Lily I was her first paying customer). She told me I paid her too little and we did not repeat but stayed in touch and now she keeps messaging making herself available to me. She is exceptionally attractive and sweet and did not last long in the bar. If she moves in with me GFE-style she will be nearly impossible to shake off. Then there is another delicate Walking Street sissy I fucked once only once on my last night in Pattaya last year (right after I STed Anny) and did not get a chance to contact again on the subsequent trip. She barely speaks any English. All I have is her phone number. 6 months in Pattaya is an eternity. Wonder what became of her... Then there are 2 Pattaya prosti MILFs I would like to buttfuck again. One in her 30s, another in her 40s they value a mature fun gentleman like me and I value their saggy flesh as we cuddle all night. Apart from all that, I want to go to the freelance bars of Walking Street and hook up with the fattest BBW GG I can find in Pattaya. Seriously: a morbidly obese one and I dont care how advanced in age she is. But that's not easy. There are not many like that and once I start looking I may end up with the first scrawny pretty 18 yo GG thingy that smiles at me. As you can see I have a full agenda before the trip even starts. Of course I could just scrap the prior hoes and start over with fresh ones but I take great ego and sexual satisfaction from former partners who want to be with me again and who take sex to the next GFE level. Just call me ROM antic...

thanks PG. I did notice the post was made on April 1 and almost called it but I did not think you are a funny guy like that but now I know that you are. You are also a good writer with an erudite prose I had not seen. Deep down I felt flattered and hoped you would devote a whole thread to narcisistic old me but I guess I have to wait. No need to apologize. It's me who apologizes for taking so long to react but lately my life got complicated and I just peek in to see if there are any green notice signs to see if anyone quoted me or liked me. Cheers.

WTF? I was away from computers for a while... and only saw this now (2 weeks after the OP). You certainly have my attention. Thanks PG for casting me in the lead role of a script apparently being developed for me. Looking forward... And btw no one calls me "DR" (short for Daddy Rom) in this board. That was back at PY when I used the "Daddy" prefix to underscore the kinder, gentler, monger I used to be (Helas it was like throwing editorial pearls to swine) ... This to say that you have a choice of casting the old DR like the playful jolly monger he used to be sharing his sissy exploits with pals and swine alike, or the more contemporary dark tormented Rom increasingly seeking solace between the legs of GGs and too lazy or embarrassed to TR it. I will be back in Asia in 2 weeks. Already scheduled conjugal visits with my SE Asia harem of sissies and pussies but perhaps this thread will just give me the kick in the pants I need to return to Hanoi on my next trip and face my fears of the Viet Cong uniforms in the pursuit Viet sissies. Cheers.

havent posted in a while and thought I might share this fait-divers and not sure where else to post it so if Pdoggg knows a better thread pls move. i dont think it's worth starting a thread. It's about 2 jackass NZ brothers who blatantly attacked a Thai cop. Dummest thing to do since that Australian lady in Patong who stole a beer mat from the Aussie bar (I was there) and instead of giving it back ran away to the beach when the bar called the police. She was lucky she got deported shortly after. Those 2 NZ dudes will be imprisoned in an overcrowded Thai jail for the duration of the court process and will likely be sentenced to a few more months. They will be at the mercy of the Thai king to pardon their sentences once they start serving them. Here is the story and the pics: Thailand revokes visas for New Zealand tourists arrested for attacking police officer Immigration authorities ban brothers Hamish Day, 36, and Oscar Day, 38, from ever returning to Thailand Authorities in Thailand arrested two New Zealand tourists and revoked their visas after they attacked a police officer. Immigration authorities banned brothers Hamish Day, 36, and Oscar Day, 38, from ever returning to Thailand. Thai news outlet Bangkok Post reported that the brothers have been charged with offences including robbery, causing physical harm to an on-duty officer, attempted bribery, and driving a motorcycle without a licence. Police said traffic officer Somsak Noo-iat on Saturday spotted the men speeding on their motorbikes. They tried to speed away after Mr Somsak tried to stop them. They went on to offer a bribe to the officer, who tried to film the two men on his phone. After this, the brothers allegedly wrestled Mr Somsak to the ground and took his gun. The weapon was fired, but nobody was shot. The police chief also said that one of the brothers is a mixed martial arts fighter. Video of the incident has gone viral online, where onlookers can be heard shouting at them to stop. Both brothers have denied all charges and the police said on Monday they would ask the court for permission to deny their release on bail. Mr Somsak’s supervisor and Chalong police chief Ekkarat Plaiduang said Mr Somsak was injured but recovering well. Phuket governor, Sophon Suwannarat, spoke at a press conference on Monday, condemning the brothers’ behaviour as “intolerable”. "The behaviour was improper and illegal,“ Mr Sophon said, and added that ”serious action“ would be taken to “protect the tourism atmosphere of Phuket”. The brothers’ father, Laurence Day, told New Zealand Herald: “The family is distraught. We’re praying for a good outcome. Who would have ever expected this? Just a couple of kids on a tourist trip.”

According to my Filipino sources, it all started yesterday when a group of Filipino sissies attacked some Thais, robbed them, and then shared video footage on social media to mock them. Then a mob of Thais formed led by a guy called Champ and attacked every Filipino they could find and converged on soi 11 where there is a hotel that houses the pinoy sissy prostis. Fighting ensued and lasted all night with interruptions and flare ups. Apparently there is one particular pinoy sissy called Ivy who was badly injured and got money and an apology from Champ but will be deported as soon as she recovers from her injuries. Two other filipino sissies who originally beat up the Thais and posted on social media have been identified and arrested for deporting. Here is a still from one of the videos that enraged the Thais.

This post is where I share updates and reflections on BKK based on my latest stay there last week: Overall vibe: Like in Pattaya, BKK tourists are back to record-breaking levels. Most are still the farangs but the Indians and Arabs are taking over the sois. I did not see the Chinese tour groups like in Pattaya, but they must be around also. This has to be leading to upward pressure on prices of the stuff we mongers like about Thailand: hotel rooms, restaurants, taxis, prostis, drinks... Every time I come back I feel less special for being part of the TH experience. Taxis: They can't raise their meter fares, so many (most?) are refusing customers unless we pre-agree to higher than meter prices. A metered fare from my rive gauche hotel to Nana is 100-120 baht, which this trip I only managed once going to Nana. Coming back later at night I dont even try to ask for meter anymore and will offer 200 until a driver is interested; most aren't! Going from the hotel to the airport I was ripped off by a driver who made up a pretext to drive me around. I held my ground telling to call the tourist police but it was unpleasant and I still paid more than the direct meter would have been. Taxis used to be one of the stress free things about TH. Not anymore. There is Bolt and Grab but often you get the "no driver available" screen. Airport lines: When I arrived the emigration line was several bends huge, so I took a shot at the diplomats' booth and got through in 5 minutes. On departure, the line was also very long but then I saw they now have electronic passport scanners and was out of there also in 5 minutes. For the first time ever I did not get an exit stamp on my passport. Could I have used one such scanner also on arrival? Hotel: I still consider the riverfront hotel where I stay a bargain brought on by Covid but every time I come back the prices have edged up slightly and I can tell more and more foreigners have become aware and are partaking of the bargain. During the Asian Crisis of the 1990s I used to stay at the Oriental, then I switched to the Shangri-La, then the Sheraton, and after this one I will have run out of fancy river view hotels I feel I can indulge... Mongering scene: Patpong: Continuing its slow death... Patpong 1 is now mostly an open air food and drinks court with mobile food stalls. There are no more than 3 GG gogo bars that I spotted. Merchandise vendors, at the far end, are a fraction of what they used to be. Also at the far end of Patpong 2 they consolidated a small stretch of gay bars and gogos (2?), possibly the last such concentration in BKK. The rest of Patpong 2 is a wasteland. In both Patpongs 1 and 2, I spotted all of one ladyboy in an outdoor middle of the soi beer bar. The only such bar left. The only such ladyboy left. Nana: Rocking with GG mongers! This time I went to Obsession and had a beer and it did not match my expectations of more attractive than elsewhere ladyboys. Several fatties and seniors on staff and way too many ones deformed by plastic surgery. But at least there were upwards of 20 sissies. I was the only non-Asian punter while there. B-52 was OK but only had 7 or 8 sissies, and then there were the 2 postop bars with the amputees but I did not go in. The Sukhumvit ladyboy bars: Cindy's I got there too early perhaps, saw it was dead and turned around and went to Soi Cowboy where Cockatoo and Shadow were OK with 8-9 sissies each and then I never made it back to Cindy's. CIB was rocking by the time I got there and I counted at least 15 ladyboys in bikinis and schoolgirl waiter uniforms. Quite a few other punters including one of the PY Gold members were there. June is on leave doing more plastic surgery. I had come in with my own ladyboy so I bought their only Cambodian one (forgot the name) a couple lady drinks while the 3 of us chatted and played pool. Why Not remains the nicest sissy space and well-enough staffed but it tends to be empty of customers when I go there and that was again the case. Black GG prostis: I used to see the African chics cruising Sukhumvit. This time I did not but ran into upwards of 20 of them in front of the Novotel on soi 4. Have they always been there? I had never noticed. I love black women but the ones in TH are mafia-controlled and I am afraid to mess with them. Last year one wanted 5000 baht ST. I knew she would have come down but it was a non-starter. Russian prostis: I used to see MILFy ones cruising Sukhumvit and on the front yard of the Rajah hotel that has since been built over. This time I did not spot a single white-skinned one. Other areas of interest: Chinatown: I remember going in the 90s to BKK's Chinatown for the picturesque vibe and delicious food but at night it was dead. This trip I went back for the first time this century and it has come a long way and it felt like Khao San Road at night but with partying Thais not farangs. Worth a visit. Weed shops: Still plenty but I noticed 2 or 3 big ones near Nana have closed. The government announced it will reverse the liberalization at the end of this year. Will all those shops have to close? Or only new ones not allowed to open? I used to get the 100 baht blunts but in Pattaya this time I got one so bad (all heavy tar tobacco) that it left an horrible taste in my throat and turned me off weed. Took like a week of sissy cock-scrubbing my throat to get rid of the taste. I hope this helps. I add some pics from BKK.