Bohemianfish

We are in the Seattle area also. Anyway, your wife can get emergency passport: Emergency Passport - Royal Thai Consulate-General, Los Angeles https://thaiconsulatela.org/services-for-thais-th/thai-passport_th/emergency-passport/ My wife said if your wife needs assistance regarding this, she can help, I can relay to her.

Kids can disappear before you know it. It is truly difficult to keep an eye on a kid every-single-minute. Particularly if you have more than one.

Do you know if spouses with less than 40 quarters and get Social Security based off their spouse are eligible for Medicare? Looks like I found the answer and a spouse can get Medicare.

We live cheaply in the states, mortage and utilities aside. Would apply to Thailand as well once we get there (and have a home). Of course, we eat most of our meals at home that we cook. Our needs are simple.

My wife came to the states and we got married. That was good. I got exposed to Thai culture through her and she got exposed to American culture while living here (and I think it may be harder for a Thai person to adapt than the other way around). There's a lot of differences and it takes time to acclimate to each other's culture. Yes, going through that again would be too much. Once is enough. We now have a blended culture at home here in America.

yes, over 35-40. for both persons, age doesn't matter too much. I've got 10 years on my Thai wife.

Probably next winter, barring another bad variant of COVID, restrictions will end, and life will return to as normal as can be. It may take a few years for the tourist #s to return pre-COVID.

I thought the people who owned the big hotels there owned the big hospitals. Money going to the same pockets.

And the problem with too much to drink is losing common sense and inability to think clearly.

True, yes, was thinking of the tourists.

over promise, under deliver

Maybe they will get high instead of drinking. Far lesser of two evils.

Why do people even bother with these complicated, bureaucratic and onerous rules?

A very serious personal matter to be sure, hence the reason to go public with it (and make money off this tragedy)!

Likely the bribery by officials to get rich and put the needs of the country after that. This is a worldwide problem.

Are socks with sandals legal there?

Hopefully, no new bad variants are on the way. Its all possible and we will all have to take a new approach to dealing with it, rather than mild versions that may require an annual innoculation.

You may have luck on finding info on visajourney.com. We used it in regards to wife's immigration to the USA. USCIS may be slow all over due to COVID. Naturalizations have slowed.

Severe infections and deaths are attributed to Delta which will likely get snuffed out by this new variant. Some people are getting sick from the new variant and hospitalized, but are out of the hospital within 1.5 days. The new variant is spreading like wildfire, is peaking and is expected to drop sharply like it rose. Things will (should) get much better very, very soon. We can only hope.

Pimsleur is a good option.

Ready for them to change their minds tomorrow.

Some of it may be everyone having access to the internet and seeing how the rest of the world really lives. Everyone wants better lives and opportunity to do better. When they feel they can't get that...and things get worse with increases in the concentration of wealth...

Not until the tourism industry in Thailand is completely decimated.

Seems like fewer serious illnesses, but this new variant is hitting hard and fast, so probably going to spike very quickly then fall. We can hope. And hope we are coming up on the end of the bad variants in the future.

And not to forget the beauty on the inside...