Just wanted to introduce myself. Feels weird to be on a forum.. been 15 years since i was active on one (fishkeeping, cars, etc). But, figured I could learn something here. lots of people with lots of experiences..
I am an old white dude. A bit beyond middle age I suppose. Live in USA (California) currently in a rural area. Lived in Thailand for a couple years when I was in college in the early 90's. When I was there I lived my first year with a Thai host family and have kept in very close touch with them all these years (they are just "my family" to me.. the far away family. my host mom and dad, my host sisters, all the cousins.. its just my family, except far away). I also got married back then to a really cool badass girl, so my wife (of damn near 30 years) is also Thai. We have always gone back to visit yearly. Her family. My family. My friends. Her friends.
We have a little piece land in the mountains of Korat and have a very tiny, very basic little retirement shack there we just built. Not ready to retire and move yet (waiting for my teenagers to finish high school) , but we want to stay in our own place and stay for longer when we visit so needed to get started and work our way into more time there gradually. So, I don't live in Thailand, and its been so long since if have, but I have some familiarity and somewhat connected beyond just visiting or "wanting to retire" there. But still 30 years removed from actually living there.
my interests are fishkeeping (large freshwater fish.. what they call "monster fish") and gardening and nature stuff . And I do some vintage auto racing as a hobby (old Datsun 510, Sports 2000, etc.. stuff like that) but I will probably be winding that down in the next few years.. pass that on to my daughter to keep racing!
yeah.. so.. that me in a nutshell.. tried to give enough info to actually be an introduction, but keep it vague enough to be safe.. i don't trust the internet or people much and normally keep shiat to myself. But I wanted to be friendly in my intro! Cheers everybody.