jaywalker

Poor baby. My daughter is 18 now. I keep wishing she was just 2. Cutest thing on the planet! Such a pretty life to see grow into an adult. Drag this POS to the nearest tree.

I encourange any US Army or Marine Veteran to check out Mat Best on Youtube. He is cathartic. He really helps. The worst part about being in the US Military (as a grunt), isn't being shot at and shooting back, it's what's going on in your head, both during and after. I started off in the Panama Canal Zone in 1985 and made it to Bagram and Baghdad. Mat Best does a remake of Dolly Parton's Jolie, Called "Jody"...

So Thailand joins an Elite Club. The USA and Eritrea are the only countries that tax folks domestically on income earned overseas...Now Thailand. Why on Earth should I pay US taxes on money I made in Kuwait or the UAE or Thailand? I pay local taxes. I've been DECADES outside the USA. It's just wrong. Aside from a USA passport (which I loathe), why does Ceasar still demand MY money? It costs a mint to every time I step in the US Embassy, and that's IF I can get an appointment!

It's profitable alright. I once took a taxi from the Hiroshima train station to the Hiroshima airport hotel. Roughly the same as Mo Chit to Suvarnabumi. $150 USD (I forget how many Yen...18,000 or so)... About 6,000 baht. Ouch! I only had 10,000 yen on me & I had gotten them from a USMC base in Iwakuni... At an ATM. Thinking 10,00 baht will get me from Don Muang to Chiang Mai...should be enough. I'm just going across town in Hiroshima. He had the meter on as well. I was able to put it on my expense report no problem, but the problem was finding an ATM that would accept international cards . The only one was in the Airport a half mile away, inside a Japanese Post Office that closed at 5:00PM and it was 5:30 PM by the time I hoofed if over there. The taxi wasn't hauling me another inch. He was an inch away from calling the cops. VERY nice hotel manager that spoke great English got us to agree that I would leave the money with him, and he would hang onto my passport in the meantime.......I took the bullet train to Tokyo for work the next day (I had bought the round tip ticket at a Travel agency on the USMC base), and did my work at the Tokyo port (2 hours working) and started wandering AIMLESSLY thru Tokyo looking for an ATM that was in English, and that took a Mastercard debit card. I stumbled upon a farang on the street, and he lived there. Canadian guy. He took pity on me and hooked me up with a Japanese Post Office that was open. WHEW! ============ I was in Iwakuni for work and got to see the cherry blossoms in March. GORGEOUS!!! Hiroshima was a beautiful city (this was all 20 years ago). The people were, to a fault ALL super nice. Riding the bullet train was cool as hell. Nuclear war is the worst thing that could ever happen, and I'm happy I got to see it as a really nice place.

Maybe it was a transgender transformer? Stranger things have happened!

99% comes from Farangs going 61 kph in a 60 kph zone. I've been pulled over by cops 3 times in the USA. I lived in Kuwait 6 years and Abu Dhabi 2 years as well. Never talked to the cops. I bet I have been stopped by cops almost 100 times in Thailand. Road trip to Surin or Ko Chang? Not a matter of IF, but WHEN will the suicidal BIB run out in front of me?

Here ya go... veepthoughts.com

Continued...The ever vigilant Pattaya Police just happened to notice a knocking shop full of emaciated, anorexic Uzbek gals, who's only words were "Plov, Plov, Plov?" https://www.willflyforfood.net/uzbek-food/#:~:text=9.-,Plov,most famous dish in Uzbekistan.