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Nothing will be announced publicly until ships are definitely arriving and only a very few days notice will be given. When the ships are here, it is possible to join what public viewing tours they might have by turning up at the relevant port and taking your chances. Any communication with charity organisations for visits that many sailors sign up for will done with the same short notice and normally not publicly announced at all beforehand.

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Sometimes you'll see stories about organized projects the Sailors and Marines get involved with during liberty call, like the Father Ray Orphanage or community improvement, but I guess the general public doesn't find out about it until after the fact.

Humorous, but you may not be wrong.

I've made a few inquiries, and it seems that US Navy ships scheduled for port of call here is indeed kept strictly hush-hush.

Maybe. But don't they sometimes have tours available to the public on some of the ships when they put in to Lamchebang?

How can one get info on U.S. Navy ships scheduled to visit this area?

I was afraid you were going to say that.

I have visited Bermuda a couple of times where the speed limit is 25k.

People drove courteously and I've never felt so safe on a motor bike as I did there.

I was planning on coming to KC in a couple of weeks with my family in our Chevy Aveo, but from the description of the road and what sounds like SCORES of drunk drivers, I'm not sure that I'm willing to expose us to such danger.

The pickup truck taxis don't sound any more safe and I am under the impression everyone drives like some kind of mad banshee there.

Are there any alternative islands in the area where mass insanity is not the norm?

Someplace where there is no run-away construction? Hordes of people?

(...or at least not within ear-shot.)

Where is this Shangrila on KC?

A swag is a waterproof sleeping bag with mossie net and low tent roof comes in all shapes and sizes commonly used by travelling workers.

Say Mr. Nignoy, this sounds like something easy to carry and great for camping.

Is is like one unit that you just unfold? And where can they be bought?

Thanks.

Dont know about teepee or Container living, got some mates who live in self dug homes underground,Why not just buy a decent Swag!!waterproof, mossie and snake proof, works for me Nignoy

What is a swag?

in the past did you have a different screenname and ask about tricycles?

Uh, no.

Thanks all for the interesting info about containerized housing, and I have another alternative housing idea for your consideration, and that is the traditional Native American style tee-pee.

Here again research show tee-pee's to be a viable choice if you happen to enjoy living close to Mother Nature.

I've seen scads of interior design options with everything from a foyer as an entrance buffer when the weather turns inclimate, to an interior redwood deck which nicely compliments an inlaid flat stone hearth for an open fireplace or wooden stove.

Of course if you want to rough it in style you could run electricity to accommodate fans, a/c, and fridge, whatever.

They are available in sizes to accommodate just the bare necessities to a diameter so large it will easily accommodate you and 12 of your closest friends for a pow-wow.

And with the modern fire retardant, water repellant materials used for the covering, they are sustainable for many years of use until another covering is required.

The most expensive part of the modern tee-pee are the fiberglass poles used for framing the structure,

but if you opt for a more traditional approach by using locally obtained wooden poles, I can not imagine they would be prohibitively expensive.

A tee-pee with an interior teak wood deck and poles - how cool would that be?

When you order, you can even have traditional Native American paintings added all around the exterior and I can only imagine the stir this would create with locals and tourists alike when they come upon your abode. Has anyone seen one in Thailand with or without paintings yet?

If you were to set up a community of them it would be a totally unique backpacker's campground, completely different from anything anyone has ever seen before.

How could you keep the critters out though?

Club & Restaurant Association of Patong (CRAP) ???? Come on!!!!

"There will be placards. Marching bar girls, angry club owners and more fuming katoey than have ever been assembled in one place at one time...

This has got to be some of the most brilliant creative writing I have ever seen!

You made all this up yourself?!!!? Wow!

Thanks all for the interesting info about containerized housing, and I have another alternative housing idea for your consideration, and that is the traditional native American style tee-pee.

Here again research show tee-pee's to be a viable choice if you happen to enjoy living close to mother nature.

I've seen scads of interior design options with everything from a foyer as an entrance buffer when the weather turns inclimate, to an interior redwood deck which nicely compliments an inlaid flat stone hearth for an open fireplace or wooden stove.

Of course if you want to rough it in style you could run electricity to accomodate fans, a/c, fridge, whatever.

They are available in sizes to accomodate just the bare necessites to a diameter so large it will easily accomodate you and 12 of your closest friends for a pow-wow.

And with the modern fire retardant, water repellant materials used for the covering, they are sustainable for many years of use until another covering is required.

The most expensive part of the modern tee-pee are the fiberglass poles used for framing the structure,

but if you opt for a more traditional approach by using locally obtained wooden poles, I can not imagine they would be prohibitively expensive.

A tee-pee with an interior teak wood deck and poles - how cool would that be?

When you order, you can even have traditonal native American paintings added all around the exterior and I can only imagine the stir this would create with locals and tourists alike when they come upon your abode. Has anyone seen one in Thailand with or without paintings yet?

If you were to set up a community of them it would be a totally unique backpackers campground, completely different from anything anyone has ever seen before.

How could you keep the critters out though?

Hello and thanks for the opportunity to post regarding a concept which has gained in popularity among a certain niche segment of the expat community who enjoy living somewhere for a while and then moving on to new environs, and that is to take a sea container and transform it into a simple dwelling - or you can take several and construct a more elaborate dwelling with all the ammenities of a conventionally built house. It seems unusual and granted it is certainly unconventional, but there are actually quite a few soujerners such as myself who are attracted to the idea of not feeling anchored to one place forever and that's the beauty of it. You can live somewhere for as long as you like and then when you're ready for a change of scenery, just have it put on a truck and relocated if going overland, or put it on a ship for some distant shore.

There are entire websites devoted to the subject and I was just wondering if anyone there has heard of it being done in Thailand yet?

There are designs and volumes of information offering construction tips and ideas for increasing one's comfort level. Quite innovative, really.

By outfitting it with doors, windows, a kitchen area, a lew, cabinetry and the like, it's not completely unlike living aboard a boat - A place for everything and everything in its place as the saying goes.

Would anyone happen to know how much used sea containers go for there?

Of course, prices vary according to size and condition, but even if one opts for a more elaborate and permanent type structure, your investment is still going to be substantially less than a similar structure made of conventional materials.

You've already got the frame - now you just go about customizing it to your fancy.

I've personally seen 9 40-footers stacked 3 abreast and once finished the only way you could tell it was made from containers, was by seeing the unfiinshed exterior. Very spacious inside.

Oh, believe me, the behemoth was of gargantuous proportions and solid as the bloody rock of Gibraltar.

It's brilliant really - it will stand up to typhoons, earth quakes - and with sky lights and windows it isn't claustrophobic in the least.

A lightning arrester and good earth grounding are essential I would think.

This is a question which desererves thoughtful consideration.

And it is a question that I began asking myself.

I also started researching E.Q., - Emotional Quotient - and it has to deal with your ability to be continually aware of what emotions you are feeling.

The idea, is that if you can become aware of what feelings you are experiencing at any given moment, then you can learn to control your feelings and not let them control you.

This approach dovetails very nicely when you are trying to identify your "triggers" or those things which make you want to smoke.

I went for a check up a while back and the doctor asked me if I smoke and I said yes.

He asked how much and I said like a freight train.

For how long he asked?

38 years I answered.

Put 'em down cold turkey and have now been clean for a year.

Want to know how I did it? With great consternation.

I told myself I was going to quit even if it hairlipped the Pope and by the grace of God and all that's holy I did.

They say it's easier to quit coke than it is cigarettes because of the neural pathways it uses on its way to your brain. I believe 'em.

Hang tuff.

I Said Where Can You Buy Peanut Oil!, WAKE UP AND ANSWER THE D@MN QUESTION!

buy peanuts and strangle them

And just where do you suggest I obtain a peanut strangling device?

I'm not opposed to the idea, and now you guys have got me thinking...no peanut oil in Thailand, huh?

If I opened up a peanut strangling factory, no, wait a minute - I've got an even better idea; instead of strangling them, I could hire some big, fat Issan mama's to stomp 'em into submission.

Dammit! Thanks for the million dollar idea!

Jee-ZUS - stop taking yourself so seriously and lighten up. It was a joke.

This guy walks into a convention center and sees nothing but blondes running around chanting, "53 days! 53 days! We did it in 53 days!" This goes on and on untill in desperation to know what the h#ll they're talking about he walks up to the head blonde and says, "Lady, I've been watching you and your friends running around and chanting '53 days! 53 days! We did it in 53 days' for hours now, so would you please mind telling me what you're talking about?"

Holding up a jig-saw puzzle box and pointing she chants, "It says 3 to 4 years and we did it in 53 days! 53 days!"

I can't beleive there is no peanut oil to be found in the entire country of Thailand.

What's up with that?

Forgot to ask if anybody knows where a grinder suitable for ginding wheat, beans, etc..., into flour could be found? Also, does anyone happen to know if there are any pressure fryers to be had?

Cheers for that.

Hi. Can anyone tell me if they have peanut oil in Thailand and how much it costs? Thanks.