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A Decade in Thailand: Surviving My 50s in The Land of Smiles

A Decade in Thailand: Surviving My 50s in The Land of Smiles

Seraphim, Jonathan

Paperback

General Political ScienceSoutheast Asia

ISBN13: 9798184386775
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jun 28 2026
Pages: 464
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A Decade in Thailand - Surviving My 50s in the Land of Smiles is a raw, rollicking memoir of one man's escape from corporate misery into a life he never saw coming. After losing a 13-year career in the cold, gray Northwest Natural Food industry, the author takes a leap that lands him in Bangkok-and straight into eleven years of chaos, beauty, heartbreak, reinvention, and unforgettable trouble across Southeast Asia.

What follows is a decade-long journey through Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, and Bali-complete with the 2014 Soulshine Festival, slow boats up the Mekong, a Thai military coup, the passing of a beloved king, and days (and nights) spent teaching English and History in schools that were equal parts inspiring and harrowing. Along the way are drug busts, Immigration jail, hospital beds, improbable romances, two deaf women, one maybe-post-op ladyboy, and a parade of characters that could only exist in the tropics.

More than beaches and temples, this is a story of survival-with grit, dark humor, and a surprising dose of heart. It's about cheap sex and deep morality, broken families and new loyalties, friendships that don't make it and students who do, the strange dignity of starting over at fifty, and the good Thai weed that sometimes makes all of it make sense.

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