I lived on Samui in Thailand for awhile and I would echo your sentiments. Needless to say, there were no opportunities to talk shop on the island.
However, that made room for much more opportunities to lift my elbow. :P
BTW, I won't forward this to the lengthy list of posters to this thread lest I should wreak napalm on myself.
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