Road Trip !!! Home to Quy Nhon to Home .... an encounter with Lee & Eva & Dong, Phap emails ..... and Choi & Han save the day ;-)

 6:00

Huh ? lot's of sleep !

H&H

I have to tell him for the umpteenth time to clean inside first so as not to drag the outside dirt inside....

8:00

nap

9:15

reflection from my tiles on my ceiling ....

10:30

I'm done with the calisthenics and feel like napping more ;-( NO, I just read for a bit

11:00

I try to skype Denise & Hans.... Skype says they're not online.... oh, BS, Denise is always online at this hour ! then she keeps texting back and forth..... 

11:30

More electrical wiring.... I'm sick of charging batteries for the stair lights....

... I bang my head on the stairs HARD .... why do I have grass on my head?..... I DO have a big bump on my head.... and I realize that the grass was hair and that I semi-scalped myself .... 

Oh, what a day, LOL....

12:15

should I go or not?.....

Shave, shower, skip the swimming today....

13:15

Oh, I might as well go....

appalling how many new hotels appeared along this previously pristine coast ;-(

14:15

Life's a Beach.... only 1 waitress....and she's overworked.... but she answers my call for a 'strong G&T' with a concoction that might just knock me off my chair, LOL.

14:40

Where is my food ? ....

It takes 1/2 an hour and the fries are lukewarm ..... I don't take it out on the waitress because she is utterly overworked.... especially now that a young people photo-shoot crowd arrives

15:15

All of a sudden all the staff is there.... but they have their communal meal.... time to leave...

15:40

Dung doesn't recognize me at first.... but then is all excited and  shows me his garden ...

16:30

17:30

Coop.mart

18:30

Lee calls..... I don't really want to eat....

19:00

another lesson..... fear of losing money (or fear of life and an uncertain future ?!?) turns my mind aggressive against people..... 

they are only 2 minutes late ;-)

Lee surprises me.... he picks up the dinner tab...

and hands over 2 trieu that he can live without now....

21:00

back at the hotel.... Dong is watching TV.... chuc ngu ngon

21:30

more lovey dovey mails with Phap..... oi gioi oi .....

21:45

An email from Joanna in Paris....

. she is saying that she is almost sure that she had the virus....sick for a week.... but that it was impossible to be tested...

.. WTF?!?..... the first of my friends to have had it !

More Phap emails..... and OH NO....

....he's a sad-movie crier... as if I hadn't known all along....

... I do MISS him SO MUCH....

22:30

Wide awake.... and I am very glad I went on today's trip.... took my mind off things at home.....

23:00 still awake ...and in LOVE...

23:30

6:30

ooh.... I slept a lot....

an email and a picture from Jessica.....

OMG....this picture hammers home just HOW LONG I've been gone ....

My motel used to be here :-(

8:25

I've decided NOT to go to Big C....   too lazy.... too sluggish.... that cold still has my body in its grip...

9:30

Time to go.... Dong takes selfies of us..... and he doesn't accept any money for the room .....oi gioi oi ....

10:15

At Life's a Beach..... I realize that Dong texted the pictures to my OLD PHONE NUMBER ;-(  So sad....that was actually a good picture of me ......

10:30

OMG.... VinaPhone sent the pictures to my email account ;-)

The pharmacy has 4 Viagra and 2 Cialis left, LOL.... 

the Com Chien voi Dau Hu is actually edible...

... and not expensive at 49k.... 

11:45

back home..... thank god... I have enough of that bouncing around on the bad roads....

12:30

dying lobsters going for whatever the crying owner can get for them...

I hope Choi's and Chau's lobsters are OK .... 

14:30

15:30

time to throw out Thanh's STINKING rotting monster starfish.... I think maggots are already feasting on it.....

Oops.... I did it again.... it is Sunday.... I emailed Phap... if he was working 5 times in a row while I was in Tuy Hoa and he won't be answering (i.e. not working) today and tonight.... I'm going to get REALLY CRANKY and depressed ...

16:45

I'm about to settle into depression, when Choi & Han show up..... Han just SO MUCH looks like a GORGEOUS Coastal Salish guy, LOL....

Choi brings me a bag of GORGEOUS blue lobster shells !!!

Choi had his belly razor-bladed to deal with a stomach ache.... now he has TWO aches instead of one... but at least his lobsters are OK.... only the lobsters in Song Cau Bay died 

Choi takes one of my sprouting coconuts and reveals just HOW MUCH FOOD there is inside them....

Hang still is not well..... but he is SO GEORGEOUS.... the doctor in Quy Nhon said it's his liver and he should go to Saigon..... but he needs 3 trieu....

He asks me to go hiking up the mountain with him..... LOL.... even Choi agrees.... too dangerous... sending two fruits up the mountain....   just looking at his face and expressions makes Phap look average.... WHAT is WRONG with me.....  5 months ago I was a widower and 6 year virgin ... and now I'm getting picky.... ?!???....  But there is a certain je ne sais quoi about the way Hang sucks that Champagne cork .....  oi gioi oi

  

Oh why the hell not.... tomorrow at 9 Han will fix my plumbing issues... NO, NO, I mean the REAL bathroom plumbing issues !!!....  With any luck he will do it right.... I will be happy..... and he will have 3 trieu.... he will be happy .... isn't that what it's all about ????

18:00

They leave.... and Phap's email arrives one minute after that.... coincidence ?!?.....  Believe in Karma !

18:30

Time to work on those MANY GIANT lobsters that Choi brought .....

19:45

NEED to SLEEP...

21:15

the phone rings..... Nguoi Linh

Phap visits.... a birthday party..... and OMFG...... I get LAID......

5:00 

Open eyes and coffee.....

6:30
No Lisa again. she's found a new friend... a st00pid one....

nap

7:30

8:00
Breakfast with Lisa while Dung cleans......  Why do I call Granny "Granny" and not "my Granny"....


NAP

10:30...Wow...

12:00
Half a G&T to go at Bobby's....... the Frenchies are leaving on Sunday.... Anni won, I guess....sad..... buoi chieu starts at 13:00..... so I better get back home..... have a nap.... and wait for Phap.....


13:15
waiting...... might as well have a nap..... maybe he'll wake me up..... LOL.... keep DREAMING, old FOOL !

14:45

16:45
OMG I'm really getting my sleep today..... still no Phap..... oh WTF?

18:15
I'm sitting at Lisa's hotel when I see him walking up.....

Birthday girl thinks I'm taking a picture of HER..... LITTLE does she know

Look at the ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS guy behind her ;-)

Even Lisa (Lesbian)....says....OMG....he is so handsome....but a bit short....I have no problem with the latter ;-)

Him and I sit at my house for a while........then he wants to walk........we walk to a dark part of the beach....  we lie on our backs looking at the stars (WTF?)..... I roll towards him and start rubbing his chest....."thich khong?"(like?)..... instead of 'thich' (Yes), he points at the stars and says 'dep'(pretty)...... I will NEVER understand the Vietnamese..... I take it as a polite evasion..... but Lisa later points out that he didn't say 'khong' (NO).....

Lisa starts a bon fire at the beach.....it's a German thing :-(

In return......I launch a Thai/Chinese Wishing Lantern

22:00

ENOUGH of the birthday party

Time to take it back to my house...LOTS more alcohol..... he still says "I can sleep here or go home. No matter"....  OH FUCK.......SCREW this..... I step WAY out of my extremely shy comfort zone ....I don't kiss him and I don't hug him...I simply start unbuttoning his shirt..... one button at a time starting at the top.....flesh contact...then I start on the belt of his pants....he volunteers to help......I pull his pants down......oh yeah, he DOES REALLY like it......

Lazy lover, inexperienced lover, who knows.... maybe that's a price one has to pay as an older man.... and he's not the cuddler I expected......   ah well.....one step at a time


23:00
he sleeps naked and he SNORES !!!

Happy Reunification Day, Viet Nam !!!

Today is a very special day....

.....proud and hard-fought-for memories for some:

....a black day in the history books for others:

Guess whose side I am on:

45 years ago today, the People's Army of Vietnam finally ended decades and decades and decades of foreign rule by various foreign powers (China, France, Japan, France, USA) by liberating Saigon....

Just last night I was talking to people about what this country would be like if The Other Side had won...... we all agreed that we would not want to be here if that were the case......

Cam on rat nhieu, Viet Nam !  (I am actually shedding 'patriotic tears' while writing this)

Has it been 7 months already since the last post ? Pictures.... 2.9.2019 - 9.9.2019

Good Morning, VIETNAM !

Construction site visit.... (hard to imagine now)

might as well ENJOY it !

Mr. Gorgeous at Muoi's birthday

show some leg !

SHIT..... yet another gorgeous sunrise !

burning construction rubbis

things to come ....  like windows....

WHAT happened to my BROWN eyes ????

no words necessary ....