Since a couple people asked, I"ll post a few details about the trip, mostly about the girls. A few people in the travel forum where I asked for suggestions on places to go and things to do said to forget local girls, that they just see tourists as a nuisance and sexual tourists.
Not true.
Briefly, I went Southern Thailand-->Cambodia-->Vietnam by motorbike (Saigon to Hanoi)-->Laos-->Northern Thailand-->Bangkok.
As everyone knows, traveling girls are massive sluts. I"m not particularly intrigued by white girls, and in that adventurer mindset, you don"t really find yourself giving a shit about the same girls you can find back home. No one fights, or competes over women; everyone is just having fun. Some guys try to go hit on girls and spend their night focused on that, but most don"t. I just ignored them and had fun, oftentimes dancing by myself for up to an hour. It was those times that girls tended to approach me, and we were usually having sex within 2 hours of that.
Staying out of the dirty old man neighborhoods with the hostess bars, and going to the young backpacker nightlife spots & just having a good time is the easiest way to get laid.
For locals...the key to finding locals who (1)aren"t hookers and (2)might want to meet foreigners is to go to local clubs. Depending on city and location, the foreign clubs are often filled with hookers and douchebag white guys. The local clubs I went to almost never had a single other foreigner in them. I only did this in Vietnam, as I was with another guy with the same mentality. We met tons of girls, and I got close with 2 in particular, but they were proper girls and no sex. Still, it was 100% more fun playin that game with a local girl than having sex with some white slut. Being white in these places means all you have to do is smile and be friendly. My friend never got turned away from a single group, ever. Then the girl he was eying would come to me because he was an atrocious dancer. lol. In other countries, the friends I made just didn"t seem to care to go anywhere but the popular foreign bar, so I don"t have experience there.
Even in the foreign-popular bars, there are local girls to be met. But it depends heavily on the location, and on luck. I met a thai girl on ko phi phi, one of the biggest foreigner toilets I"ve ever seen. Her and her unattractive friend were the only Thais in the entire club, the biggest on the island. I got lucky finding her, and my game was just on point, so I managed to beat out the fierce competition. Now that I think about it, of the 4 local girls I slept with (1 thai, 2 cambodian, 1 lao), they were all from foreigner bars. But they were mostly lucky encounters. There were 3 foreigners also, but they were only the ones that basically threw themselves at me.
In short, if you want local girls, you can go to the popular foreign bars and root through the fields of hookers to hope to get lucky and find a local girl out to get some white dick, or have more fun going to a local club and meeting proper ones, albeit with a lesser chance of getting laid.
Major regrets: 1
Ugly girls: 1
Hookers: 1
Paid-for hookers: 0
Guess which is the major regret?
The best part, female-wise, of the entire trip was visiting Korea for a week before returning home, and going home with a girl from the club on my first night out. What a welcoming.
As for being back, it"s mostly just a technicality. I don"t feel much of a desire to post. Honestly, the negativity brings me down. Takin the piss out of someone is all good and fun, but so many people just hate for no reason. Anyway, I hope my experience can give a little aid to others wanting to meet some local SEA girls. Vietnamese are the hottest, by the way. And the ugliest sounding.
P.S. If you travel to Vietnam, buy a motorbike in Saigon or Hanoi, and ride it to the other city through the HCM highway. It was one of the highlights of the trip.