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LawrenceN

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  1. To be clear? You got the areas wrong. Each village has one pu yai ban. The gamnan is over the tambol (sub-district), which might have many villages.
  2. One rule that many people have forgotten, even in America, is that you don't tip the owner of a restaurant. Tips are for the staff. Most small restaurants in Thailand are owner-operated. I leave the small change, never calculate the 15-20%.
  3. Rule at my house is don't eat anything with "turd" in its name.
  4. Go to the airport and ask at the AirAsia counter.
  5. English has been a requirement in schools for generations. The only Thai people who actually converse are those who take initiative beyond school, to make money, or foreign friends, or learn song lyrics. What the PM suggested is not unreasonable. I'm not a fan, but it looks like leadership to me. The knee-jerk response from his political critics is not surprising. I'm American. I can only imagine how the opposition would freak if President Biden said something like that. What about your country?
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    Driving out of Chiang Mai today on the 108, there was a woman selling bags of it at a traffic signal. Looked like at least half a dozen leaves in the bag, 50 baht. So watch for that.
  7. We live in Chiang Mai. We're both vaccinated for Covid-19. Wife said she wants to go skiing in Japan in January for a few days, not more than a week. She has Thai and US passports, mine is US. The link doesn't include our situation, unless we quarantine, if I read it correctly. How do we leave Thailand for a week or less, jumping through the least hoops?
  8. It's fine up hills. It's a 1.5L engine. Not winning any drag races, but perfectly adequate for a retiree to drive to other provinces occasionally. I have driven it from CM to Chiang Rai several times. The transmission has that stick you bump to the right for "sport mode," which I use in the hills. No problem passing the local rust buckets of Burmese laborers.
  9. I went to the Bangkok Motor Show last year. A BMW motorcycle dealer had a slightly used demo bike for sale. 900cc sport bike for 500K baht. I didn't buy it. Have to trade in the wife first. I still pine for it. What would I do with the remaining million?
  10. Great idea! Offer space to a local, rent-free, to build a shabby farrowing barn with 20 sows. Guy with a backhoe can dig a sewage lagoon in one morning. Keep the building cheap. It's temporary.
  11. Check out Arthitaya. In Lamphun Province, but only 40 minutes from CM. 600 baht includes green fee, caddy, cart. What does "pp" mean?
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