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Travel broadens the mind goes an old saying, and it truly did in my case.
Although this article includes my trip to Miami, Florida, it is also about the political polarization between left and right these days. I will publish it in Globetrotters and the wider Medium community.
Having spent many years working on various projects overseas, visiting on behalf of clients in an independent technical sales role, I earned some good commissions. I decided to set up my own office in Thailand. My previous article on “The Best Place I’ve Ever Been That I Felt I Could Finally Settle https://medium.com/p/c50d638e66ca” was in answer to a monthly challenge on Globetrotters Medium publication. That was where my office was situated, and I covered many Oceanian countries from there.
My time in Thailand has given me an accepting outlook on so many cultural differences. Their acceptance of the gay scene and the many transgender of ladyboys, or kathoeys, ladies of the third gender as they are known, plus those of the Tomboys who swung…