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Not sure it's an Etan ...

Yes , same as Henry Ford said ...... " You can have any colour , as long as it's ..."

as long as it's black and not " blue-Etan "

I don't know why people are so afraid to return to their home countries. Your home country is not going to bite you if you return(unless you have some sort of serious legal problem).

I'm not afraid ; I just don't want to come back !

Ah ! Good question ...

Eight years I'm living here in E-San , never got out Thailand but if...

No,no , I will never come back to my european country ;

I will go to another asian country such as Malaysia or Vietnam or why not Cambodia ..

For me the move 'back home' wouldn't be a difficult one because it's a question I will never ask me .

I didn't understood what you were writing;

The 117 coming from Nakhon Sawan stop at Pitsanulok ;

I use this map

Thailand Road Atlas by Thinknet

ISBN 9 786167 547299

the price is about 300 baht

You have also in this book many maps of the main towns in Thailand and if you have a look at Uttaradit map, you cannot find a rd n* 117 .

When at Nam Pat, if you choose to take the road 1339 to Na Muen , Na Noi and Nan; be careful it is a dead end road when arriving at the artificial lake made by Sirikit Dam .

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portuguese_man_o%27_war

And arrest also the boss of SPC Construction Company who employs them illegaly and certainly pay them a pittance .

Aranyaphrathet ( Poipet ) - January 15th 2006 - 10h 46 am - photo shot in Thailand

Nikon E 4500 - f/6,7 - focal length ( 35 mm format ) = 38 mm - ISO 100 - 1/236* s

( Methode Coue ) ; in english autosuggestion

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autosuggestion

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury published in 1953

Wish US had done the job properly to bring civilization and education there !

Hanoi Vietnam's capital is only a little bit more than 2.000 years old ..

How many years about USA ? less than 300 years old ...

I bought my new Nissan in September last year but told the dealer I didn't want my white plates until January, this way when I get the blue book for it, it is classed as a 2015 vehicle not the previous year. Good for when you want to sell it.

And what about the serial number ( on a little plate ) of your car which is riveted inside the engine compartment ?

With it ( the serial number ) you can know everything about the model ;

there is another serial number which is inside the engine block ...

Even you have a 2015 " class model" on the paper; it's very easy to know it's in fact a 2014 model .

Vietnam does not recognize foreign driver's license even accompanied with an international license ;

You must have a vietnamese license to drive in this country

A mole ?

When it's not " brakes failed it's now accelerator fail because of rust ;

Maybe they ( thai people ) MUST begin to learn some words like :

maintain, clean , check periodically ... and especially to practice .

average UK cost of building motorways is somewhere between £25M & £30M PER MILE!!

100mm of tarmac wouldn't last a month in the UK so it wont last very long at all in Thailand

so Som Nam Nah indeed!!

A good link, sorry it's in french but u can easily understand the numbers ! ( million euros for one kilometer built )

http://www.senat.fr/questions/base/1998/qSEQ981212598.html

" Finland (3,3 millions euros), Spain (3,8 millions euros), Sweden (5,8 millions euros), Luxembourg (8,8 millions euros), Germany (de 10,6 à 42,4 millions euros), France (13,9 millions euros), Italy (de 25 to 35 millions euros for motorway already built and from 35 to 45 millions euros for motorway not yet built ) and Switzerland (65,7 millions euros). "

U can see , it's very expensive in Italy and Switzerland because they have so many mountains . viaducs, tunnels, viaducs, tunnels ...

Engineers, like Casey Jones, he was an engineer and we all know how safe Thai trains...........ah..........well moving on swiftly.

I didn't knew about John Luther (Casey) Jones ;

but now , thanks to you,

http://www.taco.com/roots/caseyjones.html

Engineers ??!

I'm looking after this word in my thai encyclopedic dictionary ( 32 volumes ) but cannot find it ;

Is it normal Dr Watson ?

All the roads in Thailand are built the same way ;

White ground at the base ( it's argile and sand ), then red ground ( it's the same with glue )

Then this machine

Then asphalt in big trucks, but not more than 4 centimeters...

Again that machine

It's finished...

Maybe they must go to Italy to see how italian engineer can make motorway like Bologna -- Firenze through the mountain; ;

tunnel , viaduct, tunnel, viaduct and so on during about 120 kilometers.

Im surprised the tarmac is more than a quarter of an inch thick as thats all it is on our "road"

Amazing how the Romans could do it

Have a look at my post #3835 here on TVF ; I had nearly the same answer ( 4 centimeters ) as you did here ...

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/607560-street-and-road-shots-anywhwere-in-thailand/page-154#entry9582415

Have to love Thai engineers

Thai what ?

At least Thaksin did something for the people

Well propaganda from marxist side.... If Taksin do something why Isaan remains the poorest region thailand ?

Maybe you must come to I-San and see by yourself...and not only read what Nation " journalists " write ;

you are not without knowing they aren't journalists but only people who write what the party in power wants ...

You'll be surprise to see it's wrong .

555 ! If Thaksin is marxist, I'm Jesus Christ

Hi Chon from Buriram, I suppose ?

I have finish to upload what I have saved from my argentic photos ;

I have began another post about my journey in the same country in may 2007 with my wife;

but during every WE my internet connexion is very slow so I shall continue in the next week .