onekoolguy

My friends GF has been waiting many months? I think its pretty slow right now? You can check the embassy web page for current wait times.

Actually 2 AZ jabs will satisfy more countries requirements than any other combination.

I keep thinking, just a little bit longer and it will be over? Can travel again, eat in restaurants, have friends come to Thailand to visit etc. But after 18 months of dealing with ever changing restrictions I need a break! I am going to return to the USA for a couple of months and come back when the conditions are better? At some point it is just not fun here anymore.

For those that are interested a really good site is "Snakes of Hua Hin" You can submit a picture and the administrator is very good at identifying snakes. I am amazed at how many there are around here? I see very few, but people from around the area and in the city submit pictures everyday and there are a lot of very nasty ones such as spitting cobras which I didn't know even existed in this area?

I asked my Thai wife what she thought about checking the papers of all customers? She just laughed!

If 2 vaccinations are really required they might as well remain closed!

I guess it depends on the school? I paid for a couple of students for a 4 year university in BKK and seems like it averaged about 30,000 baht a semester plus books and housing if needed?

I also took 1 sinovac and am due to get AZ on sept 7th. I plan to go to the USA on 12 Sept. At first I thought I would take the AZ on the 7th and then take a booster when in the usa? However not to mention the health risks there is the problem of what various countries consider fully vaccinated? Many don't accept a mix. So maybe I can take a J&J as a third jab but not sure of the timing? I am now thinking that the better idea is to not take the AZ on the 7th and instead wait and take 2 of the Pfizer which now has full FDA approval. That would solve the acceptance of vaccination question. I can get into the usa with just a covid negative test. No quarantine and vaccines of choice available everywhere. Just walk in and request. You might need to get before going to the UK to avoid quarantine? Call around and try to find where you might get the Pfizer vaccine if you have the time?

This article says that unemployment was 1.06 percent in the first quarter and if not opened it might go to 2.5 percent by the end of the year? anywhere else those figures would indicate an overheated booming economy? There must be something that I don't understand?

I walk on this section of the beach many mornings. There have always been some Thai's collecting shellfish from the rocks at low tide. But in the last week or so the tides have been extra low and there have been more people harvesting the mussels etc. than I have ever seen before! The wife bought a few kilos of the mussels and cooked them up. She and her family love them but not really my choice of seafood.

I believe that they stopped doing the ACH transfers from USA to Bangkok Bank many months ago. The transfer that was sent probably will not go through and will be returned to the sender. Now it has to be sent another way, such as bank wire.

A good way to make money is to buy failed businesses for pennies on the dollar! Sounds like poor planning on someones part?

Does this kind of make you think that there will be no end to this? The new varient of the week?

I think that the important part to note is that virtually none of the new positives were caused by the vaccinated tourists!

Might be good to know as this will probably make the national news?

The danger is not from the vaccinated tourists. The real danger is to the tourists from the deep red zone! Having entry requirements other than vaccination, has no benefit to Thailand. At one time maybe it did? But now that covid is so widespread, it makes no sense?

That's what my friend in the USA did. He had substantial assets, but funeral expenses were avoided.