Yes, it's easy to see that there are quite a few "new" players on this board. Many of them aren't quite as old as they think they are, and they have a real bad habit of letting everything that slips out of their mouth sound insulting. That's too bad. What is this about Korea and the women there that someone mentioned above? Did it ever occur to you, that there are a few other countries in Asia besides Korea.....and that not all Asian women are only interested in young GI's with Levi's, a T-shirt, and a baseball hat on? For the record, I don't live there. You were in Korea twice and met a lot of "bar girls" I'm assuming by your tone in your message. So what? Did you bother to leave the security and sanctity of your little "safe haven" near the front gate, or did you spend your entire tour spending all your cash on the bar girls (and still not getting any)? My friend, have you ever been to Thailand, Cambodia, Burma, Laos, Vietnam, India or Sri Lanka? Those are my "general" hangouts these days, although I spend a great deal of time in the rest of Asia. The girls there do dig my shoes (some of them). More so, I dig my shoes (that was the point). Besides, why did my shoes become such a major focus in this thread anyway? The picture was posted for a few certain "old timers" that got onto me for not posting for a while. The point was the girl, not the shoes. Of course, if you're too worried about the shoes and whether or not I used protection or whatever the case may be, you are totally losing the point. I'm not surprised at all. We had a good little board here for quite a few years, now we've got a big board, with twice as many "new" cigar smokers, that are slowly but surely turning it into a really crappy place to visit. Hint to all, post a few pics, tell a few jokes, respect all, and if you can't handle that, go back to your room and watch MTV.