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Do they handle US passports?

This is probably correct, since the Thai word for fresh can also mean raw. It may be a comment about how raw shrimp being left out in room temperature could be risky.

Absolutely true!

Like many people, you really don't seem to know much about dogs.

It doesn't matter if pitbulls are loyal and become attached to a single person. This is a common attribute among many dogs of many breeds and mixes, and is beside the point anyway. As a longtime dog breeder and owner, I've said before, as an example, that an Irish Setter whose ancestry hasn't hunted for a hundred generations will still go on point if it happens upon the scent of a quail. But pointing at a quail does not result in kids and adults being ripped to pieces, which will happen again with this pitbull if it is not euthanized.

Ah, you and I live in the same Thailand.

Patpong's heydays were in the mid '80s, when there were no holds barred. Over a period of several years, I went there at least a few nights a week, often with my wife. Nothing else has come close to the spectacle Patpong was then, not even during the Vietnam war period. Oddly -- or maybe not so oddly -- we met some good people there, a handful becoming long-term friends.

Thanks for the good info.

Got guests, who are experienced hikers, wanting to know about hiking trails in the north of Thailand. Anyone have a recommendation?