So this is what a "Go-Go" bar Really is...

I got to my hotel, the Hard Rock, Pattaya, after a 2 hour drive in some man's car. After getting all the check-in stuff outta the way, I relaxed, tooled around, and got ready for dinner. I cuted up in my new tye-dye blue wrap skirt and my black express tank and headed to the HR Cafe for dinner. They all looked at me in a puzzled manor, apparently, as I found out later, not many white young girls come to Thailand all alone. Ahh well. After eating, I figured I would wander a while... Then, I began to realize why Pattaya was "A male fantasy"... its like a friggin meat market! Open air bar, after open air bar, filled with shall I say "women for sale". All over, inescapable. And when I say all over, I mean all over. For every man there were at least 10 women. Not kidding. So, after a couple blocks of this and some lude comments, I headed back to the hotel for a drink.. I sure needed one! The whole staff remembered me, and kept coming over to chat, introduce themselves, one of them even was singing to me! Very nice nuttos there! After a while a man sat down next to me, bout my dad's age. A couple minutes later, he inquired if I was from the US, stating that not many US girls come to Thailand by themselves. I explained how I ended up there, and we chatted, he was a nice guy, plus he spoke english, big bonus. Then 2 other guys bout his age come in to meet him and we all start chatting, and they buy me drinks, next thing ya know, they are wanting to take pictures with me (who knows what they are gunna tell people). Then, I find out they are crew chiefs from an Air Force flight crew. Then the 4 young men arrive to meet them. Sal, Will, John and John(who they referred to as Stoner) came in and immediately gave me some weird looks, considering I was by that point chatting and taking pictures with their aged collegues. Somehow they got me to go out with them to the 'ehem' "girly bars". It was actually quite amusing to watch these guys all get fondled by these Thai women like they were pieces of meat. I retorted by saying "now you know what the girls at strip clubs feel like when you eyeball them!!" to which they said, of course, "thats totally different!" We also went to this bar where people kick box all night and you bet on them... I tell ya, so interestingly amusing! Another thing, is that there are always people trying to sell you crap. And the boys were not so good at refusing the ladies, so by the end of the night, I felt like I had won a beauty contest or something! Bouquets of flowers, flower leis, bracelets, the works! haha.. suckaas. By mid-night, I was hanging out mostly with the 4 young guys, they were a riot! Will, who was pretty shy, kept making me be the 'crotch block' , if you will, so that the women would leave him alone. Poor guy. We went to dance clubs, fight clubs, topless clubs... it was quite an evening. Another note... there are many, many transvestites in Thailand. And they also sell themselves. Sooo, not only were the guys getting hit on by the women, but they were getting hit on by the transvestites!! Definitely an experience to behold... at least it wasnt one I had to partake in! haha! We didn't end up getting back to the hotel til like 3am, and I tell ya, I slept like a log... I would chalk day 1 up as a keeper... hehe.