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Yeah, I enlisted in the AF in 1964- Gulf of Tonkin occured while I was in basic so instead of studying Chinese I became a Vietnamese liguist. Spent about 18 months flying out of Danang, VN, and many years in Asia, Myanmar when it was still Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, Japan (Fusamachi, Tokyo and Kadena), Philippines Manila, Cebu and familiar with Clark as a typhoon evac of our Kadena based acft and Pinatubo days. But also spent many years in Europe, some time in Africa, and Central America. Then I retired from civil service here in Bangkok as that was my first choice among those other countries that I had lived in. I have been retired here for over 20 years and still consider it Paradise. I spent some time each year doing taxes in the states but finally in 2015 got rid of my last house, several vehicles and split the money from those among my two daughters. Life is still good, Thailand has changed since the early 1970's but so has the rest of the world - some good some bad. Good luck to you!

Yeah I wrote that the weather historians said it did snow in CM province in 1955 once, and assumed it was on the highest mountain here. They also mentioned that even though on the mountains it sometimes gets to zero degrees ( I have been on Doiinthanon when it was at zero degrees at daylight about 10 years ago. watched the dew freeze to white color all over the grass. The weather site mentioned that for snow there has to be a certain amount of moisture in the air which is normally lacking in Thailand during that time of year. Yeah along the Mekhong the land is much lower than in ChiangMai with lots of mountains. I can recall in NKP that some mudpuddles did turn to ice during the winter but not often and that was in the 72-73.

"normal" folk I gues want to control others lives and complain immediately if someone doesn't agree with them.

well the tourists came which was the intention of the government just to get them to come for several days or a week to spend money. I know that and avoided the crowds for sure. I don't drink nor smoke drugs nor participate in those activities' locations. Used to be that Bangkok during SongKran was deserted and one could drive around the city with no traffic.

I googled snow in Thailand ever and it said according to the archives it did snow once in 1955 probably on doi inthanon. and explained why snow is so rare in Thailand. Guess one can neevr be too old to learn something ! Thanks for informing me!

Must have been on top of doi intanon I was in NKP early 70's, winter was pretty cool but never heard of the snow. this year, el nino is gone replaced by la nina, last rainy season Korat nakorn Ratchasima was totally dry with the dam holding less than 30% of water needed so crops were affected early this year but lately they have had more summer storms with hours of heavy downpours, filling the dam back up and watering all the crops. Beautiful corn I saw on the news this past week!. Now the weather folks are saying through the end of this month lots of high temperatures and therefore summer storms in especially North and eastern Pakisaan. the south continues with heavy rains daily.

Yeah I recall many decades ago when I would go out on SongKran day, except for very little ones, the teenagers and adults would just put a bit of talcum poweder wetted down so it would stick. None of this splashing like recent years has seen but I see too, that the government is trying to get as many tourists in as possible do they can make a few bucks.

Older than you are probably as my first Thai teacher over 50 years ago said that Thailand has three seasons, Hot, Hotter and Hotest.

suggest you check out some the reports on this forum over the recent past as they have been quoting the weather people about the hottest year and hotest month every month this year too. When we evacuated to kanchanburi during the super flood in BKK (2011), during an afternoon summer storm, I noticed small hail and all the Thais laughed saying it was too hot for ice to fall, just like it never snows here. I mangaged to snag some of the hail and showed them that it was ice but none of them had ever sen it before. Now it is a daily occurrnce duiring the summer stor,m sn last month one news clip showed a home owner picking up a golfball size hairstone! just saying that the weather is changing worldwide whether you can see it or not.

having spent more than 30 years in Thailand, I notice for sure a big change in the weather. Yeah still 3 seasons of Hot, rains some years wet some years or areas dry. SUmmer storms getting more violent and hail growing larger almost every year. Winds growing stronger with even one report of a tornado. every month the international organizations report a record heat for that month. There are regular reports now of 1000-year rains in a short period of time making for record flood. These are all symptoms of global warming for sure as the weather is noticiably changing.

Not only that, even the one that the SC told him to facilitate the return of that one, he has discussed this with the El Salvador leader so that the US has zero control on any of those sent there so that fellow sent illegally won't be returning in this lifetime. Trump is an Anti-American traitor to the nation (IMHO) who wants to rule the world and in his mind only of course thinks he rules the world right now. Meanwhile all the rest of the world except for a few mentally ILL (IMO) leaders like Trump's actions! It is about time for the Congress and Supreme Court to intervene and have him committed to some insane asylum IMHO

IMHO only of course, I think that Trump figured from the voting that people forgot just how many times he was a big loser and he wondered how he could be remembered forever - TARIFFs, he did learn something in college after all, what an idiotic thing to do, destroy the whole world's trade systme and he will go down in history as the biggest loser of all time - the KING of losing!!! got his throne now!

Nomad Capitalist I blv says that Colombia is really great for the rich and richest. Plenty of positives if you have the money!

Doi Inthanon, Chiang Dao, MaeHongSon, Tak there are many natural forests and mountains in the north with some absolutely gorgeous waterfalls and hiking trails. I am sure that there are travel guides that could name a lot of other places and the areas of your particular interest. You don't want to go into some areas during the full blown rainy season due to flooding. Enjoy! I did already over many years!

Hey Trump! Thanks a lot, you have all the answers to self destruction for sure and those idiot advisors of yours are as dumb or dumber than you! IMHO