28 Days in Pattaya: Day 1
I arrived in Bangkok at around midnight after a 30 hour trip from Toronto with stops in Chicago and Narita. When the flight was booked in early January, one Canadian dollar fetched 28.34 Baht. By the time I arrived, that same Canadian dollar fetched only 25.88 Baht, an 11% drop in purchasing power. I planned to take a bus to Pattaya in the early morning, I. E. , one of the ones that runs from the airport and drops you at your hotel. They are cheap. Just over 200 Baht. But they don't start running until around 8 o'clock, so I decided to sleep at the Bangkok airport. Ear plugs and a small pillow did the trick. I hadn't booked a hotel in advance, but I had done my homework and knew that I wanted to stay the first few nights on Soi 6 so I had the driver drop me at Soi 6 and Second Road and I made my way toward the beach, checking guest houses along the way until I found one I liked. I chose Lagune at a cost of 700 Baht. By 1 o'clock in the afternoon I was pretty much settled and ready to go out and explore. The offerings on Soi 6 at that time of day didn't appeal to me so I headed for Beach Road. Without much trouble, I found and fucked a nice looking Beach Road girl named Nada twice (#1. 1 and 1. 2) for 1,000 Baht. Later in the day and that evening, I scouted out Soi 1, 2 and 3 (where not much was happening) and the nearby mall (where I couldn't find the place where the freelancers were supposed to hang out), so I eventually found myself at some beer bars along Second Road not far from Soi 6 and was hit on by a small beer bar girl. After chatting a while, we agreed on "short time" for 800 Baht. Then I paid the bar fine, took her back to my room, had her naked but in the end I didn't fuck her. She was too pushy. She would not be the only one like that either. After about 20 minutes, I sent her away with 300 Baht and called it a night.
28 Days in Pattaya: Day 2
Day 2 was a wasted day. I had signed up to Thai Friendly and had been in touch with a number of women, one of whom I arranged to meet. She was older than what I was really looking for, but she seemed nice. Certainly her Thai Friendly picture showed much promise. Well, gauzy pictures can deceive. In real life, she was a real disappointment: about 15 pounds overweight, with bad skin. What was more, her English was so limited that she brought along her 18 year old daughter to help her communicate. Her daughter's English was not much better than her mother's so the encounter was filled with cordial and well-meaning smiles but it went on much, much, much too long, and of course it was entirely chaste. They came from Sriracha, about 20 minutes by car from Pattaya. And I was very glad when their car drove away. Over the next few weeks, I would become quite adept (or maybe just exceptionally lucky) at salvaging nights that went astray like this one had, but I had not yet acquired that aptitude and so for me it was an early and unsatisfying end to my second day in Pattaya.