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- Comment on Can travel anywhere in late June, not sure where. Anecdotes/advice? 4 weeks ago:
Don’t let the heat scare you away from Thailand.
Spend the first week with your mom up in Chiang Mai, go to “elephant nature park” up there, one of the few who actually are a real elephant sanctuary for rescued elephants and treat them well. You can feed, touch, and bathe them, it’s an awesome experience. There’s also great cooking classes to do that take you through the markets where you try different foods as you collect your ingredients to cook with later.
If your mom is open minded enough, go to the ladyboy cabaret, it’s good fun, I’ve literally seen families there before, it’s not x-rated stuff, just good song and dance with humor mixed in.
Night market every night, and Sunday walking street both offer tons of shopping and excellent street food options everywhere you go for literal miles. Don’t miss out on the best Khao soi of your life.
See the temples, Doi Suthep offers an unmatched view of the valley Chiang Mai lies in. Doi Inthanon is high enough of a climb in elevation that you get serious relief from the heat, and there are waterfalls to visit along the way, makes a great day trip.
Spend a couple days up in Pai to enjoy a peaceful hippie-ish town with beautiful views (about 3 hour drive by car). If you make the trip up here, you might as well go to the white temple in Chiang Rai - I can’t vouch for that one but it looks sweet!
Week two - fly yourself down to Phuket for the beach and nightlife. Go to a full moon party, do some shrooms or whatever floats your boat. Tons of bars and clubs in the area for you too. Also, if you’re up for something not as much of a party but still incredible while you’re there, look up John Gray sea canoe tours. They do the best day trips out in the bay, take you to a couple different hongs where you kayak under these caves into lagoons, see bats, monkeys, all kinds of cool shit… They cook you good food on the boat… You can do overnight trips where you camp on a tiny island you have to yourselves… Highly recommend them.
I spent a couple months in Thailand in college (over the summer months) so I’m always encouraging others to see it, even in the hotter months - don’t let weather discourage you. The people, the sights, and the food far outweigh any bad weather you might encounter. I liked it enough to bring my wife back for our honeymoon years later, we had an awesome time.
- Comment on Is it realistic to hope that lemmy grows to the size of the bigger social media platforms? 9 months ago:
I’ve also yet to come across censorship favoring fascists here.
- Comment on For some reason suicide is illegal. If someone is going or trying to commit suicide and get talked down are they still in trouble or get locked up or sent to a medical facility? 9 months ago:
In the US, they’ll likely get “51-50’d”. Sent to a medical facility for a max observation hold of 72 hours or til a doctor clears them to leave.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
Everyone tells younger men the same thing it seems. I heard the same bullshit from the time I started talking about it (vasectomy) as a teen. 35 now and nothing has changed, living the dink life with my wife and it’s great.
- Comment on [deleted] 10 months ago:
I share the sentiment and have always felt the same way since I started thinking about it (even as a kid myself). The idea of having kids never appealed to me, I don’t like being around them, never have, still don’t at 35. I have a handful of nephews/nieces now and still don’t enjoy hanging around them even for short bursts of time… I don’t have the patience for the screaming, crying, breaking shit, tantrums, messes, etc.
It’s a 24/7 job for at least the next 20 years if you go through with it.