mike carey

@Jim_n_NYC, in the few days after I joined I received a few unsolicited messages from escorts but didn't reply. But that was all, I haven't received many since then. I was in a small city, not one of the larger markets so that may explain why they stopped quickly. As @Ichabod noted if they see you've looked at their profile they have no way of knowing if you intended to leave a track or not, so they have a business reason to check. (You can change your settings on your dashboard so they can't see that you have viewed their profile.) If I received a message I would treat it as a 'Hello' but it doesn't make me more likely to be interested, but still I'd check them out. I would tend not to reply but if their message was particularly engaging I might do so even if only to say. 'Thank you but no'.

I've given up worrying about the 'immigration experience', it's going to be what it is, and I haven't had any recent horror experiences. That said, I've only used LAX, SFO or DFW (and only been able to use them while I fly Qantas, even when flying with them to JFK as those flights clear immigration at LAX). Perhaps I'll get to use some other gateways if I fly Singapore, Cathay, JAL or Air Canada, or arrive from Europe. And I'm not a US or Canadian passport holder so I can't use MP. I've arrived in Australia at Sydney,, Melbourne and Brisbane and there's not much difference.

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Yes, I was talking mainly about the south east. The Ghan and the Indian Pacific are a different type of experience as you said. They do have one or two 'coach' carriages for sit-up passengers.

Yes to going as far forward as possible at DC Union Station, and yes the queues can be long. Whether it makes sense to fly rather than catch the train depends on your mindset as much as anything else. I would be cautious about the idea of flying from La Guardia, even if it were cheaper, getting to the airport is more problematic than getting to Penn Station. More broadly I think of a train trip as a part of the travel experience but a flight as a necessary step before 'travel' starts. So, I would take a train from, say, New Orleans to Washington for the experience. Trains here are more like the US than Europe, few, slow and not all that convenient. They are largely run by state governments and they are a public service rather than a business proposition. In my state, NSW, there is a good network of trains and connecting bus services (mostly with reserved seats so the DC Union Station rush for seats doesn't happen). It's no comparison in scale with the NE corridor, but Canberra to Sydney (300km) has 15-20 flights a day (discount from $200 each way) and three trains ($50). There is also a non-stop bus service every hour for $30-$45. [Those are AUD.]

@liubit, what did you not like about my post?

Amen to that. As an aside, if I'm in the NE I'll be 'reaching out'.

Those would not be 'nothing'. We had a session and then kept entirely to our own sides of the bed thereafter.

Indeed! On that trip the train journey is an aim in itself. Of course if we were sharing a compartment that would be different.

Indeed! On that trip the train journey is an aim in itself. Of course if we were sharing a compartment that would be different.

As André said, there shouldn't be an overnight charge if you are merely offering use of a guest room, but it's something that you have to discuss and agree on. If the escort wants to charge you, you don't have to agree for him to stay. That said, it's open to you and the escort to agree on any arrangement if he is staying at your house, from sharing a bed to using the guest room. I have shared a bed after a paid session, and NOTHING happened, he didn't need to find separate accommodation. I would have been happy to pay again if that sharing a bed became something else.

As André said, there shouldn't be an overnight charge if you are merely offering use of a guest room, but it's something that you have to discuss and agree on. If the escort wants to charge you, you don't have to agree for him to stay. That said, it's open to you and the escort to agree on any arrangement if he is staying at your house, from sharing a bed to using the guest room. I have shared a bed after a paid session, and NOTHING happened, he didn't need to find separate accommodation. I would have been happy to pay again if that sharing a bed became something else.

@VictorPowers trains and planes can be unreliable anywhere. In the North East, trains are likely to be quicker and cheaper, but not always. When I was last there, I used Amtrak not flights, and I have Amtrak points to show for it. (There are buses too.) I travelled to various locations between DC and Hartford, usually booking shortly before I travelled.

@VictorPowers trains and planes can be unreliable anywhere. In the North East, trains are likely to be quicker and cheaper, but not always. When I was last there, I used Amtrak not flights, and I have Amtrak points to show for it. (There are buses too.) I travelled to various locations between DC and Hartford, usually booking shortly before I travelled.

I've never even been to Quilpie.

@studchaser didn't call escorting sexual slavery. He was characterising the attitude of clients who hire escorts for overnights and longer and expect the whole time to be taken up with sex as treating the arrangement as sexual slavery. That characterisation is debatable, as you said a paid consensual arrangement is hardly slavery, but it's quite different to saying that escorting per se is sexual slavery.

I can see prices for escorts anywhere except the US so prices for foreign escorts are definitely on the site. I don't know if those are visible in the US (I don't remember if I looked when I was there). The fact that I can't see US prices would seem to indicate that those are simply not on RM rather than that they are hidden from people accessing the site in the US.

Everyone has their own fetishes.

Haha, perfect! Although for me 10 inches may be a bridge too far! (You may be able to redeem them for gift cards. If so spend those instead of cash and put the cash amount into your escort fund.)

I'm tempted to do that, but no airline points, and $1 a stamp. Here, almost all bills can be taken into the post office, they scan a barcode and you can pay any number of them with one cheque. Or you can use a CC (so, points) or electronic funds transfer there. As it is, the last cheque I wrote was July last year. (If you live in a small town, almost anything you can do at the post office will help keep it open.)

Not an expert (on halal, either), but my understanding is that kosher and non-kosher food cannot be in contact or use the same implements, so that may be the reason for the seemingly obsessive wrapping. (By way of anecdote that may be instructive—albeit within kosher not between it and non-kosher—an air force friend of mine flying on El Al had the meat-based meal and was then refused milk in her coffee, had to have soy.)

Leave early? No, Victor, no!

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I'm fortunate to live in a climate that is warm and dry in summer (rarely over 40°C, 10-15 days over 35°C) and at some altitude (not all that much, 600 metres, but it makes a difference), and have never needed air conditioning, helped by the building alignment (no west-facing windows). (I own another unit in the development, and it does have a/c, and west big west-facing windows.)

@azdr0710 should retitle this thread as 'Random Comments'. Seems that's what it is becoming. Could be fun.