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    Quote Originally Posted by TheRealKW View Post
    And Pattaya infrastructure is?
    Damn rights it is. All the small alleyways, the bike/pedestrian streets like soi 6. All the 4 or 5 story mixed residential with restaurants and shops on the main floor.

    Theres people everywhere

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    life is not over yet;
    still on the list

    Kashgar
    Mt Kalish
    Bhutan
    Galapagos Islands
    Easter Island

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phuketrichard View Post
    Galapagos Islands
    Easter Island
    Yes! Nice addition.


    Also - my wife spent six months on a student exchange in Papeete . . . and Tahiti is on my list, but there's time yet.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Yeah we do. But clusterfuck suburbia isn't scaled for motorcycles. So it's just different.
    'clusterfuck' suburbia ? You're kidding right. suburbia is perfectly scaled for motorcycles.
    Pattaya is more what you'd call a clusterfuck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    Yes! Nice addition.


    Also - my wife spent six months on a student exchange in Papeete . . . and Tahiti is on my list, but there's time yet.
    Mate of mine sold up his pubs and bought a retirement home in Tahiti. A place you dont hear much about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Damn rights it is. All the small alleyways, the bike/pedestrian streets like soi 6. All the 4 or 5 story mixed residential with restaurants and shops on the main floor.

    Theres people everywhere
    Sounds like a clusterfuck.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    Mate of mine sold up his pubs and bought a retirement home in Tahiti. A place you dont hear much about.
    Beautiful . . . he's a lucky man.

    I worked as GO at the New Caledonia Club Med in the early 80s . . . had the chance to go to Tahiti but decided to go back to Uni . . . wish I would have postponed it a year or so.

    Club Med was a brilliant place to work . . . and CM in Tahiti! (Can't remember if it was Bora Bora or Moorea)
    Last edited by panama hat; 16-08-2020 at 12:15 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    'clusterfuck' suburbia ? You're kidding right. suburbia is perfectly scaled for motorcycles.
    Pattaya is more what you'd call a clusterfuck.
    No it's not ! You don't know shit ! You need to study up on urban planning and civic infrastructure. You don't even know wtf this is about

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    No it's not ! You don't know shit ! You need to study up on urban planning and civic infrastructure. You don't even know wtf this is about
    This is not about you, stop making it so.




    Quote Originally Posted by Cujo View Post
    Mate of mine sold up his pubs and bought a retirement home in Tahiti. A place you dont hear much about.
    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    Beautiful . . . he's a lucky man.

    I worked as GO at the New Caledonia Club Med in the early 80s . . . had the chance to go to Tahiti but decided to go back to Uni . . . wish I would have postponed it a year or so.

    Club Med was a brilliant place to work . . . and CM in Tahiti! (Can't remember if it was Bora Bora or Moorea)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    Boomers can't seem to reflect on any subject without it getting wound up in their salvation stories and emancipation.

    I rest my case.


    <I'm Gen X, btw>

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
    No it's not ! You don't know shit ! You need to study up on urban planning and civic infrastructure. You don't even know wtf this is about
    What an odd, tangled little ball of angst this bloke is.

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    I would very much like to visit Patagonia.

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    Also - my wife spent six months on a student exchange in Papeete . . . and Tahiti is on my list, but there's time yet.
    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    I worked as GO at the New Caledonia Club Med in the early 80s . . . had the chance to go to Tahiti but decided to go back to Uni . . . wish I would have postponed it a year or so.
    Takes me back to about 1979 or 80. The worlds greatest one way ticket. Singapore/Jakarta/Noumea/Sydney/Auckland/Nandi/ Papeete/Los Angeles. New Caledonia was an eye opener and it was hard to leave Tahiti. A month on Moorea, and two weeks on Bora Bora. Would so love to get back... That ticket was $500.00. People flying back to LA from Tahiti had paid more than a grand roundtrip. UTA French airlines.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    That ticket was $500.00.
    I remember those tickets. As long as you flew only in one direction it was cheap as chips.

    New Caledonia . . . we were there again in January. It really is a lovely, lovely place. Nice people, a nice mix of European and Kanak, but hideously expensive.
    Tahiti . . . wanna go?

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    I would love to but the expense would be through the roof. Back then both islands had little guest houses with cottages with kitchens. Its how we were able to afford it. The dollar was crashing at the time. I remember getting 89 cents for a US dollar in Oz on that trip. Stayed in caravans in both Oz and NZ.

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    Stayed in caravans in both Oz and NZ.
    Fookin pikey!

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    ^ Oh, the irony . . .



    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    Stayed in caravans in both Oz and NZ.
    The whole motor home travelling experience is quite cool and a brilliant way to see the country - very, very popular here in NZ

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    Quote Originally Posted by panama hat View Post
    ^ Oh, the irony . . .
    yeah yeah yeah... and me brother actually did live in a caravan for a few years.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheRealKW View Post
    yeah yeah yeah... and me brother actually did live in a caravan for a few years.
    Brilliant

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    so backspin, with all ur withdrawal symtoms, 1. are u a geminii,,,, 2. where would u dearly love to go.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lob View Post
    so backspin, with all ur withdrawal symtoms, 1. are u a geminii,,,, 2. where would u dearly love to go.
    Pattaya

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
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    The novelty there for you is gone but you can find it elsewhere.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Backspin View Post
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    Will you make the trip once lockdown is over?
    Will you take the bride?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Iceman123 View Post
    Will you make the trip once lockdown is over?
    Will you take the bride?
    Yeah why not ? There for the bike bike , beaches hookah , ppl watching , counterfeit shopping (Mike Shopping Mall is closed I hear )

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    Quote Originally Posted by aging one View Post
    Takes me back to about 1979 or 80. The worlds greatest one way ticket. Singapore/Jakarta/Noumea/Sydney/Auckland/Nandi/ Papeete/Los Angeles. New Caledonia was an eye opener and it was hard to leave Tahiti. A month on Moorea, and two weeks on Bora Bora. Would so love to get back... That ticket was $500.00. People flying back to LA from Tahiti had paid more than a grand roundtrip. UTA French airlines.
    GREAT+++++
    <i brought that ticket in 83, ( think it was $600 or so) after 18 months cycling thru India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia
    sold my bicycle my last day in Moorea before my boat ride an flight back to LA

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