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Well, the Soviet bloc and CCP…

This was the first time in all those years (as Mrs was in a hurry this time) that I had not habitually kept to all the non toll roads. Starting fm Pattaya up the 7 then started on the 34… there was some roadworks type diversions (of course in Thai), and we soon found ourselves on that elevated roads above the 34. Saw mPass on the right and easy pass on the left. All the easy pass had illuminated yellow ‘A’ above them, everything totally unmanned, no boom arms anywhere. Heading general direction towards BangNa (bang na Chonburi exprswy) the first time we saw any manned booth, where we cash paid some 130 or 140baht. Only concerned as Europcar rental rules said keep out of mPass. That booth didn’t even give a receipt for that cash… I know it was the rama9 we next were on as we could look down to the left upon the Erawan monument… a bit later left rama9 to the left on 35…

Thanx that is what seems to be... must use numberplate recog for evelyting...

That's what I thought ! On the Right the M pass thru. From the Left ALL had Easypass with a bright yellow 'A' lit above... I think this where the Bangkok bound [7] splits up between the shorter route (which we took) and the longer [7] route that swings further north east.

So yesterday was the first time actually using Toll roads... We have always avoided them accepting the extra travel time. We travel Pattaya - Samut Songkran regularly... So we did the [7] then [361] [34] chonburj expressway etc. There was one toll point on [7] we collect that card then onto the [361] a Tollpoint with the 40baht cash. All good we carry on bit at the next tollpoint we again expect to find a cash booth but no there were only three Easypass and an mpass drive thru... Getting worried now as we are in a rental with written rules about to avoid these mpass booths... Anyways steaming along to where we are departing the expressway to get to the [35] ... toll both approaching... so this time there IS a cash booth... At the booth now and not sure whether we cop some sort of fine from the earlier drivethru of the Easypass booth?... I hold out some cash. She asks for about 130baht... These toll routes are weird... but as a minimum at least I now know it is I guess a 170baht each way trip?!?

She is a Year of the Snake so I for the sake of of peace let her win as she says that for this year she has all the power, and I am year of the Pig... Anyway: I just want to find more about this tm28 khrap before I might need to... In the meantime for us Pattaya residers on our first roadtrip this time about to her maeklong stomping grounds, the hotel here did not ask for my passport!!

... but without having some form of qr displayable, is it a maybe that you won't even get through CheckIn?? Airlines would be afraid of copping fines for accepting customers who might be stopped from Boarding... meanwhile what 3G phones don't have a camera? Even 25years ago ye olde NextG 2G etc all have cams...

I am now wondering... we do trips here twice per year (we are here in pattsya right now) so our 2nd trip will be after the affected date. We cpme to our condo, do probably 3 or 4 2nighters at hotels around the country, with last nights of trip back at condo. So I am fearing thai Mrs is going to be spewing snake venom at me if she has to start doing tm28 inputs? and updates- if our stay is one month only?

Take a photo of the qr and display it from your phone's Gallery...

This is all old news and anyone now reacting with shock&horror only just now must have had their heads buried in sand for the past12 months... Anyway being forewarned we in Jan24 bought our condo, with certain intention of only every doing our twice 6odays visits to LOS to our new holiday home. Being prepared, the entire purchase was done with 1.8M the cash in our little shopping bag at the real estate office. Never doing any form of international banking transfers from OZ. No Wise...nothing like that... Mrs knows she is equally affected and happy to also only do the <180 days in LOS... Anybody else who read all the warnings that started filtering down from News Gazettes approx back in aug23 have also had that whole 12+months to get themselves organised... On every flight up to LOS we are carrying Max allowable Cash, and have all the CreditCards 'extra'topped up and spilling over with all those extra invisible funds for spending... feels good using a credit card as a savingsdebitcard To further isolate from any chance of copping thai taxes, we won't ever rent our most-of-the-year-empty condo either... Any/every time we send $ to our los bank account it is only done via our local thai grocery in Melb OZ... a very simple system where we hand the 1000s over to him, that simply goes into his own account in OZ... he sms's a photo of our los bank acct and the money amount details; and his daily counterparts in Bangkok simply domestically transfers the thb across to our SCBacct from his thaibank accouht 😀 No money actually moves across country borders

Read elsewhere Bidet is considering still to say 'No' - If they become stateless, the next book would be even hotter... "Ginger Megs does Scorched Earth" ... nothing else to lose...

shady protection scheme for the graveyard shift preferred... moonburn protection for those many less melanin endowed? 😎

...and that other fullscreen JapanAirlines even more so...

Every country roung ye olde globe make IDPs available via their respective Automobile Associations, so don't waste yur time going to your DLTs or DMVs...