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Everything posted by nkped
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Booked my annual trip to the US on EVA in June, still almost three months out. Having the flight cancelled would be a hassle, but being taken captive by the state of Washington when I transit Seattle would be a lot worse.
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Pictures from around Pattaya
nkped replied to forcebwithu's topic in General Discussion about Pattaya
I won't say that stretch of pavement had been in great shape but no idea what possessed them to tear it up now. -
From the stoplight on Sukhumvit at Khao Talo north of Thepprasit.
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Perhaps, but having had a business class seat on Delta once which was god awful, I would wait and see.
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A few years back, I found myself visiting the good people at Bangkok Hospital Rayong quite unexpectedly. Unlike BHP, they couldn't bill my insurance directly. Having a high limit credit card certainly made things simpler.
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Lots of flights from Portland to Seattle. It would allow you to avoid having to clear TSA at Seatac outbound.
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They weren't all combis. Worst commercial flight I ever had was a EVA combi. Low rise seat back. No sound for the in-flight entertainment. They didn't want me to turn on the reading light because it would interfere with other people watching the movie. Before I got an ebook reader. I was going to try to stand all the way across the Pacific until the flight attendants found a saint in an exit row who was willing to trade seats--the flight attendants' idea, not mine. While in Phuket checked online and discovered the return flight would be a 777. Otherwise, I would have bought a new ticke
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I go a bit beyond this, but I won't go out the door without my Thai d.l., my health insurance card and a high limit credit card. You never know when you may be going to the hospital instead of back to the room.
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I'm not positive I made the right call or even what I was necessarily thinking at the moment. One of the possibilities was that I opened it and the cash was gone. 1,500 baht would have been insignificant as long as I got the documents and cards back, but it would have been awkward. In case you're wondering, in the Philippines, I did have my pocket picked on a jeepney, but got my wallet back sans cash.
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I thought about that but he seemed to be waiving me off. Anyway, in farang land, if someone dropped their wallet and you said "hey buddy", you would not expect a reward.
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"1917" was quite a bit different from what I expected but still worthwhile. While there is a good bit of action, a lot of it is simply the awfulness of life at the front. I'm no expert on WWI, but one of the things I recall reading is that the German trenches were much more substantial than the Allied trenches. That is reflected in the movie.
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I go to the neighborhood market to buy food for the dog. Walking back to the truck I realize my wallet is not in my pocket.? Go back to the stand where I got the food in case I laid it down--honest blank looks. Did I leave it in the truck and just take cash? On the way a Thai man holds up a Thai driver's licence, mine and asks "you?" and hands me my wallet. He said he had seen it fall out of my pocket. I very nearly hugged him. I had the sense/good grace to wait until I got back to the truck to see if the money was still in it. It was.
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Ed talked about it before the sale. I think it was probably going to be Bangkok Thais in town for the weekend.
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Something a bit different, Kasikorn Bank was showing the same rate for US $100 and $50 as T-T, 30.86?
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The subject of the corona virus and Chinese tourism to Thailand managed to make National Public Radio in the US.
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The ground traffic pattern has changed since they opened the new terminal. Before, you would typically taxi past a few military aircraft parked at the north end. Often, one or two would be US. Now, you are too far away to tell.
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They use grain combines for harvesting now, somewhat small ones but certainly recognizable as such to a farm kid from the midwest.
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In the US, at least, the uniformed officers wear name tags. Once in Seattle an officer approached me in Customs and asked for my passport. I gave it to him and, because I wasn't invited to follow, stayed planted where I had been standing. Sure enough, another guy comes up and asks for my passport. I was very glad I could say "Mr. Smith has it."
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It's not unknown to share facilities in the U.S. One is Honolulu International/Hickam AFB. A number of Air Reserve or Air National Guard squadrons at civilian airports.
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I would be at least uncertain as to whether a civilian airliner would have an IFF transponder. My very dated understanding of the concept was that the targeting radar pinged a targeted military aircraft and, if it is a good guy, it returns the code for "I'm one of yours." Not much good if a random commercial aircraft comes back friendly. Designing an air defense system which doesn't periodically shoot down commercial aircraft must pose challenges. I suspect the South Koreans would have insight on that given that given the location of Seoul Incheon and Kimpo.
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Once my Eva flight out of Bangkok was quite a bit delayed. In Taipei, I was convinced I would miss the connecting flight to Seattle. I headed straight for the gate but did not run while I rehearsed my "Guess what boss" call. To my relief, they had held the flight.
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By way of possible explanation, the decision to launch has to be made a fairly low level without much time. Otherwise, you can end up taking a hit like the USS Stark did when an Iraqi Mirage fired two Exocet missiles which struck the ship on 17 May 1987 killing 37. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Stark_incident
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I know vendor pays the credit card issuer a percentage when a credit card is used. Not sure about a debit card used as a debit card.
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Southwest had one where a piece penetrated the fuselage and a woman died as a result. The stranger report is that it continued flight for a few minutes after the transponder shut down.
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Was on the way to the Avenue for lunch and an ATM visit. Had contemplated taking it out of my US account until I went past a T-T booth. Okay, I still have money in Bangkok Bank.