VIEJO: Tell Us More About Thailand

[slapshot]

Nice job on the rescue

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

I often get asked the question of what is the night life like...

Put it this way...imagine walking into a singles club in the States and every girl you approach says yes....

 

[michael777]

 

[festeringZit]

I often get asked the question of what is the night life like...

Put it this way...imagine walking into a singles club in the States and every girl you approach says yes....

Just make sure it is indeed a girl and not a katoey. Haha

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Just make sure it is indeed a girl and not a katoey. Haha

Pattaya has a night club called Katoeys R Us..the name, the logo,and the spelling are rip offs of the toys are us emblems from the States...even the colors and lettering are the same...very numerous when you see it advertised for the first time...

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Bangkok has horse racing twice a month....around 13 races all on the turf and wagering is allowed....the track is located in the center of the city and it only cost 100 baht for admission....and there are racing forms for sale...called The Royal Turf Club...

 

[X-Files]

Lived in Vegas when I got married in 1980....drove a beer truck and my daughter was born there in 1983...I met Frankie Mastarana and he got me on the ground floor of offshore gambling in 1987...was going through a divorce at the time and I moved to the Dominican Republic and got on the ground floor with CRIS...the rest is history....I have had a great life since those days...

Some people rave about the sex workers in the DR.

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Fantastic.

Thank You.


You Deserved all that You've gotten. You were On The Streets of Vegas in such Olden Days.


What would you say to guys the age you were then, in 1980ish......

...what would You say to Men Now.....In Vegas.....living your life? What advice would You Give? To Them?



and did You Bet on stuff?


When you were driving that beer truck?


If you did.....how did that go? You Park the Beer Truck

and go into the Casino


and Finally


did You ever meet Billy? .


80's was ROARING IN FUCKING VEGAS my man you've lived a life on fire

Yes...I have met and played golf with Billy Walters....

Drove the beer truck for almost four years....

Met everyone that was associated with gambling back in those days...and I mean everyone...good and bad..

Bet all the time but very small in the books....learned all the ins and outs about gambling in the 80s....

The Stardust was the place to be and be seen...

I was 29 years old when I got to Vegas...

Theatening to write a book about my time in Vegas and Offshore but I keep procrastinating....

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Some people rave about the sex workers in the DR.

Nothing like Thailand.....the DR is deader than disco.....the atmosphere in Thailand clubs and go go bars are safer....

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Beer bars and gentlemen’s clubs are now again open as of July first....go go bars are not....

 

[X-Files]

Lived there all year around from 2007-2015....now I spend 4 months there every year....often called the Land of Smiles....

Why the change? Something to do with politics?

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Why the change? Something to do with politics?

Nope...went back to work...

But have been back in Thailand for good since the middle of 2018...

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Right now this has been the best place that I could have wound up....The USA is really not a place I want to be with all the shit going on....I’m too old to be messing around with all these younger individuals who want to destroy their own country...a simple walk down a major city sidewalk can get you killed....the USA needs help from above.....

 

[festeringZit]

Right now this has been the best place that I could have wound up....The USA is really not a place I want to be with all the shit going on....I’m too old to be messing around with all these younger individuals who want to destroy their own country...a simple walk down a major city sidewalk can get you killed....the USA needs help from above.....

You got that right

 

[X-Files]

Nope...went back to work...

But have been back in Thailand for good since the middle of 2018...

Wish i was there.

Is it possible to retire in LOS with a criminal record?

Who do i bribe ;

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Wish i was there.

Is it possible to retire in LOS with a criminal record?

Who do i bribe ;

Has gotten a lot stricter the past couple years...to obtain a senior visa to retire here you need to be over 50 years of age, show proof of health insurance, and show at least 25000 in a bank account....you need a passport....

 

[HinesWard86]

Does Thailand have the opium issues that Myanmar does?

 

[VIEJODINOSAUR]

Does Thailand have the opium issues that Myanmar does?

I am not aware of the opium issues of Myanmar....

 

[HinesWard86]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.al...onflicts-fuel-drug-trade-190110083026170.html

IIRC Myanmar is the second biggest opium producer in the world after Afghanistan. Its supposedly very prevalent in the north.

One of my favorite writers (Spencer Hall) talked about it in a longform piece for SB Nation a while back

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sbnation.com/platform/amp/2015/8/10/9107619/myanmar-chinlone

 

[quantumleap]

Right now this has been the best place that I could have wound up....The USA is really not a place I want to be with all the shit going on....I’m too old to be messing around with all these younger individuals who want to destroy their own country...a simple walk down a major city sidewalk can get you killed....the USA needs help from above.....

On that note, when you coming to Vegas again? We missed you at sharky's wedding in Manila.