Hi Tim! Well, I was worried about you there, lad. And thanks for the welcome and do hope you're able to resume blogging. Your lively spirit is missing from the Thailand blogosphere. We need to get together. I'm off to Canada soon for a short visit. I will send you an email shortly.

Hi VF, It has been my plan that over the coming months I will try to find some answers to your/my questions in this regard. It will be an exploration because I don't know the reasons for my restlessness as yet. Or maybe I do and won't admit to them. Or maybe they're just boring reasons, you know, cause and effect. One thing that might settle me down, and I was close to this in Pattaya, of all places, is having a good comfortable home. I think you know what I mean since you have such a beautiful home and location and good wife. Well, you do speak well of her so I am only going on your word. 555. Thanks for your good words -- both here and on your blog.

I do remember our meeting outside the ex-Carrefour/now-Big C mall. Miss that place. Good to meet you JP. I had a hectic 20 hours only in SGN recently on a buying mission. It was the first time I'd been in 3-4 years. The visit makes me want to spend more time there just to get a fairer, better feel for the burgeoning Viet city. So far, I like living in Viet Nam. Didn't really warm up to the country. Felt better in growing Cambodia. The Vietnamese are different. I have to gain more experience here before making any grand statements. But, JP, give Thailand a good try. I think you will like it, certainly in the short run. It will be interesting to hear your views after a year or two. Chok dee!

Thanks VF for your encouraging words here and on your blog, Village Farang. Maybe some day we'll cross paths. I look forward to it.

Hey Megan, thanks for dropping in. Yeah, I guess I'm not such a controversial guy, really. Interestingly, tonight and previous days, I've been thinking about my blog and what I might do with it. There's a post in this topic so I won't reveal my thinking now. Rather than say "more to come", I will say "different to come." Maybe. LOL Good luck in your new phase in life and blogging. Hope you can come back to Asia and apply yourself in your unique fashion. Cheers!

Great to see you again, Peter! Hope you will spin out some words on your blog when you get back to LOS this fall. Darn, was speaking to Dean the other night and I couldn't remmeber what I had to ask him: back=front in looks scale.

Yes they do, only it's 450 baht + VAT. I did it once and it was a great feast but I can't eat that much anymore, not like I did in the West. Thanks for dropping by John.

I have certainly learned not to judge a girl with stunningly beautiful legs and body solely on a view from the back. Heh, heh. I've often been disappointed by her somewhat homely visage. And sometimes I've suspected her "gender" and been right most of the time. However, I shall ask Dean whether the front is as good as the back and will report. Must add that she has been a very popular reader subject! Update: Well, it seems she is a beauty, back and front. A former Mojo's dancer swept away some years ago by a fellow Canadian, a long-time friend of writer Dean Barrett.

Hahahaha, Martyn. It's a natural scene for Dean ;-) Anyway, he assures me that she is a she. He knows exactly where she lives, down to the address in the Isaan moo baan. So keep enjoying that fabulous photo.

Thanks Talen (just don't read what I wrote to Lawrence below LOL or people will think I was just a simple opportunist). Anyway, you'll just have to settle for cooling off on Beach Road.

The pictures came before the story idea, but you guessed that already LOL. I will be getting away from all this baking concrete tomorrow, when Khun Miken and I head for a wedding outside Korat. Mind you it was 37 in Korat and 39 in Khon Kaen! Hope there's enough "fluid" at the wedding.

Cool, Matt. Thanks. There's a Soi Cowboy off Silom? Unless you are using a nickname to refer to Patpong et al? Er, um, we still haven't got together, have we? Let's try this again. I'll email you. Cheers!

Hello Colin, just checked out your blog and like it very much. Good luck on your move to Chiang Mai this summer. It's a city that every visitor likes. Just be prepared for the tourist invasion in high season: Nov.-Feb. You may get tired of farangs LOL!

Hello Lawrence, thanks for stopping by. The comb-over is a last gasp, desperate and ultimately futile attempt to stop the inevitable. Guilty as charged, LOL. When you reach that point, you may be tempted to do the same. But I have to say I really like the short hair now. No maintenance! Re posting . . . if you mean to Typepad blogs, I have not had any major problems but then I do not have the choice of IE because it's not been updated in years for the Mac.

Welcome Ivan. Good idea for shops everywhere, but as it applies to Thailand, well, it would be nice to see them develop just a simple, good haircut and work their way up. Very interesting and wide ranging blog, by the way! Lovely pix, too.