How To Survive Until The Next Trip To LOS

[deepthroat]

I think this topic has been done to death elsewhere, but maybe modern technology and the inventive minds of you old hands will have come up with a revolutionary new solution to this dilemma.

Or probably not.

Having just returned from my 2nd LOS adventure, I've finally got the bug.

Big time.

Having spent close to 3 weeks in LOS on both trips, I'm suddenly aware of the fact that it will be close to 12 months before I have enough vacation time accrued to return again for 3 weeks. I only get 4 weeks a year so taking another trip anytime soon probably isn't an option. It takes 2 days to fly from Seattle to BKK (but only a couple of hours to return home) so a quick weekend getaway is not practical.

I'm only 49 and in my prime earning years. I don't want to walk away from the great cushy job I've got just to be able to spend more time in paradise. But I don't want to wait until I'm too old to enjoy it to spend more time there!

Anecdotal reports seem to indicate that actually moving to LOS is only a good move for a small percentage of us. I have family and friends here in the USA that I would miss very much, so anything beyond a month or two would probably be unpalatable (if I could even figure out a way to do it).

Assuming you don't know how to install a working teleporter, that leaves me with the question that started this:

How do you survive the long months away from LOS?

After the Olympics end, I'll return to my favored diversion of driving the 2 hours to Vancouver BC to participate in the mongering scene there. No ladyboys, that's not really a viable or interesting option outside of LOS (the scene and the participants are sooooo different, it's not really attractive to me).

How do you get by?

[TTChang]

Ladyboy-ladyboy website (+ my own videos from LOS) help me ....    

But after a few weeks, it just sends you    missing the action.

[deepthroat]

Thanks TT.

Believe it or not, I've never been a big fan of ladyboy porn. My own porn taste is pretty rigid (no pun intended) - deepthroat blowjob videos are about all that interest me. But that's a whole other topic.

I realized after posting that I forgot to mention that YES, I do know that there is only one acknowledged solution to this dilemma, and that's booking your next trip to LOS. But with that being over 11 months away that's not much more than a band-aide on this gaping wound.

[PigDogg]

It's possible your employer might permit some unpaid leave. I managed to swing that while I was working.

[Steff]

DT,
I feel your pain for sure. As you know I was in LOS for the first time from January 29 to February 08 of this year. During the middle of my visit I knew I would pine desperately for LOS after my return home. LOS was a life altering experience for me and I realized I would never be the same or look at my life in the same way again. Although somewhat regretful I didn't made that first trip a decade ago, at the same time I am grateful and feel blessed I had the opportunity at all. Or perhaps not. Perhaps if we hadn't made the first trip we would not know better and as a result not be so damn tormented and frustrated.

I have family, friends, a job and a daughter to support through school. I am 59 and at the age to retire however cannot do so easily without taking a huge hit to my standard of living. I constantly try to figure out how to balance what I need and what I want. How to get to LOS 4 times a year for 30 days at a time. That is my goal. This is what I would like to achieve somehow. If your employer is open perhaps you might want to consider negotiating a leave of absence (without pay) for 2 months a year in addition to your one month of vacation. Maybe you cannot afford this or the nature of your work will not lend itself to such an arrangement but it's something to think about. Can some of your work be performed remotely?

In any event we cannot beat ourselves up over things we are not in a position to change. Daily I tell myself to accept the status quo for the time being and work diligently towards a resolution. I am going back there this Friday and busting at the seams to get there. I think about it every minute of every hour of every day. One of the reasons for my quick return is to verify if the place and my passion for it is indeed all what I feel it is. Given your reaction to your second trip I believe I have my answer already.

Please try to rid yourself of the LOS blues. You need a diversion and I doubt Vancouver is the best one for you. The good news is in a year you will be able to legally retire in LOS. Now we just need to figure out a way of supporting ourselves there. I'm open to ideas so think about it while I visit Rabbit on your behalf next week. I will certainly buy he a drink for you.

Stay happy my friend

Steff

[katoeylover]

do 2 x 2 week trips and build them over public holidays to add the extra days.

Do some unpaid overtime and log some lieu hours?

Get a tame doctor to write you sick for a fortnight...

[manarak]

DT I completely understand and feel for you.

The LOS was a life-altering experience for me as well.

The day before I had to leave, I burst into tears in the arms of a lovely ladyboy while dancing with her in Bangkok's Hollywood club.
Strong feelings.
Like a baby wanting to go back in its mother's womb, I didn't want to leave the LOS and come back to reality.
Then I felt like I had been unfairly cheated on the 15 last years of my life.
Why is there no way to rewind the tape? Reload a previous save?

Life: great graphics but the game sucks!


Ever since then, I try to find a way to move to the LOS to live there full time.


I keep coming back to this site and to thaivisa... it is like an addiction.

[Steff]

It is not "like" an addiction. It is an addiction!!! At least for me. I am doing my best to keep it in check but unfortunately, as addictions often go, I struggled with the withdrawal, foamed at the mouth, shook, paced, weakened, succumbed and finally unable to resist the temptation, allure, and pull back I completely broke and decided a fix was all I lived for. As such, at 22h30 on February 27 I touch down and I will be one with LOS again. There is nothing in life that could ever possibly offer me a more euphoric, complete, and overwhelmingly satisfying high than this. There is no higher. As such I deeply empathize with you DT and you Manarak. I do not believe it humanly possible for anyone on this earth under any conditions to be happier than us back in LOS indefinitely.

Wow, I think I am losing it, hahahaha!!!

[Bumpa STIKKA]

The best thing for an addiction like the LOS Blues is to completely satisfy it - NEVER LEAVE!

Or else you could write a song about it!

[Steff]

You are a deep, profound Buddha Mr Bumpa and absolutely correct.

[Guest]

For those who have to return home for the bulk of the year, there remains only one very practical cure........get on with your life.
While not visiting this forum until the working day is complete.

[Steff]

Pentire,

This is wise advice and undoubtedly the only real way to get through the loss while maintaining sanity.

[pacman]

The year is 2020 & the scene is the Emergency Dept in a US hospital.

Laying there is Deepthroat, hooked up to monitors, oxygen & a drip with doctors & nurses buzzing around.

Opening his eyes, he hears the cardiac specialist telling him that he has had a major stroke & will never walk again.

Tears well in his eyes as he struggles to ask about his quality of life from here on - "what about sex?" he gasps.

"Sorry" says the doctor "your days of shagging are over. What you've had to now is going to have to last you"

Deepthroat falls into a deep depression. He knows he should have taken that unpaid leave when he had the chance. He should have taken life by the horns & seized his chance to live for once.

"Oh well" he thinks to himself in his deluded state "I can always do it in my next life. After all, isn't this one just a dress rehearsal?"

[EyeMahk]

If you can "work from home" then, with the speed of telecommunications in Bangkok and other places, you can fly on the weekend and not miss a beat. Phone calls are no problem if you select the right way to call USA, this is no delay or echo.  Your hours will need to be reworked, especially to coincide with USA west coast time (9am-5am = midnight-8am in LOS, which is a real hassle, this is wehn ladyboys are awake!).  Those folks in Europe who want to do this have it made, the time difference is perfect, as long as you're not drunk every night at 3am when you 'go to work."  

(PigDogg @ Feb. 24 2010,00:41) It's possible your employer might permit some unpaid leave.  I managed to swing that while I was working.

This is a very good idea.  If you have to give them a good excuse for 2-weeks extra every 6 months:

- semi-annual "retreat" that is required to maintain your well-being
- tell them you are Mormon and going on a mini-mission twice a year
- you are a diver and your are actively involved in the preservation of small corals on the Malaysian border, and you volunteer 2 weeks every 6 months.

I've got a lot more if you need them ...  

Now if your reply is "I can't afford to take unpaid leave", think about this .. lets' say you make 84 grand a year.  That 3.5 grand every 2 weeks.  But is it really? The reward for being successful in America goes down because of the taxes, the more you make, the more you "pay the man".  So take off 33% for taxes, not that 2 weeks nets you only 2.2 grand.  

Now, factor in the 2 weeks that you are not spending in farangland.  Food? Cheaper. Transport? Cheaper. Not paying 150 bucks for a Canadian hooker? Cheaper. I spend a lot more when vacationing in the USA than in LOS.

Forget the cost of airfare, with all the FF miles you will earn flying halfway around the world, this is the least of your costs.  And the value of not having to deal with fat-assed farang women who act like men is immeasurable.

These trips to LOS will lower your blood pressure and make you a more-healthy person, preventing future health care expenditures, which seem to double every six months in the USA.

Other excuses to justify a 2-week trip?  

- get your teeth cleaned for 1/4th of the cost in the USA
- get a physical exam and EKG for 1/5th of the cost in the USA
- get blood work for 1/0th  of the cost in the USA
- spend some of your free time researching and managing your investments.  What better way to use your recovery time between blowjobs than make a little money for yourself?
- you are being charitable to your employer by reducing your salary by 3.5 grand?
- you reduce the size of US government revenue by not giving them 1.3 grand of your hard-earned money?
- you are helping the airline industry.
- ladyboys love to suck your cock, don't disappoint them, they'll be heartbroken.  

And when you get sick of banging 19-year-old hot chicks and ladyboys, you can go stop coming here.

The money you would "save" by not coming here is just going to get pissed away by your heirs and taken away in estate tax by the US government. A shame.

Some of this is tongue-in-cheek, of coure, but pacman hit the nail on the nead in his previous message.  

[deepthroat]

Wow, this stuff is really hitting me where I live.

I live in a world that I've been taught to live in by my family, my culture, and my previous 49 years of living.

That world is one in which you work work work, and never take a risk that you might regret later.

The concept that I hear in the back of my mind is that SOMEDAY things will be different and that's when I can break loose and really do what I want.

But as John Lennon said so well, "Life is what happens while your making other plans."

Or Roger Waters: "Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day. Fritter and waste the hours in an offhand way. Kicking around on a piece of ground in your hometown. Waiting for someone or something to show you the way. Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long, and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find 10 years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun."

I'm still waiting for the starting gun. Waiting till my parents are dead so they don't ask me to explain myself in giving up a fantastic job to live on a beach.

I'll have to really give this idea of asking for unpaid leave some thought. It would be tough, as I work in Outside Industrial Sales, and so visiting and working face to face with my customers is a major component of my job. I couldn't easily telecommute as my position is really all about the face-to-face interaction. But I believe I AM very highly valued so I'm fairly confident that some sort of accommodation will be made if I can merely present a good enough case.

Time is ticking. And I'm blissfully ignoring the clock, thinking "well, someday...."