jackcorbett

Thanks for everyone's replies and votes. As I originally posted, I was not at all sure where the picture was taken from. Now I am 100 percent sure. It is in the Sattahip area. In fact I could ride my motorbike there and no doubt find the exact spot the picture was taken. In fact I think I have been within 100 to 200 meters from the spot. That's 100 percent, not 99 percent. There is a riddle or mystery behind this one. Perhaps I'll tell it one day in a book. Bulfrog....your comment about the shirt sleeves is dead on. It's one of the first things I noticed on analyzing the picture

On the contrary........and do keep in mind that when I started this poll I didn't know the answers myself and that's why I started it.....to get help from the rest of you. I distinctly recall coming back from Sattahip on my motorbike, seeing a scene in the distance where the land mass continues way off to the West (left in the picture). Far more than I would have ever expected and far off I could see the Jomtien skyline. I believe this might have been Bon Serae. Ok........Recently I've seen pictures of the Chiang Rai area and there's mountains or large hills all around you. The are

Here is the question. Was this picture taken near Sattahip right before New Year's Eve or was it taken near Chiang Rai. I've never been to Chiang Rai although I've been to Chiang Mai. I did not take the picture. So I don't know the correct answer myself. However........the reason I've started this pole is not just fun and games. Basically I am asking everyone here who would like to participate to play private detective. I lean towards this being near Sattahip. There is for one thing a place along the coast before you get there called Bon Serai. I've been there and there are big si

Here's the picture. http://www.alphapro.com/showcase/beach.JPG Where was this taken? In the Chiang Rai area or in the Sattahip area not that far from Pattaya? Also, what are the reasons for your choice?

My pal Ross just stayed two months at a place just up the street from me for 6000 baht per month. This is a new place and it's kept spotless. Its wireless Internet service worked out pretty well for him although he did have to pay a little extra to be able to access it, for his electric and his cable t.v. all of which still kept his total monthly bill to less than 8000 baht per month. We tested the wireless there with both our laptops before he moved in. There are five floors there and they have two wireless access points per floor with each one being close to the end of the floor. If y

You will remember the Tourist Police Station next door. That's where the new Skytop is so everything's the same for you. Sling shot range of Soi Six, etc..etc.

I never had a problem either while driving my scooter as I simply zigzagged around the poor guys and gals in their cars and on the baht taxis as they sat there marooned in all that traffic. And zigging and zagging was completely necessary because all those practically immobile vehicles were surely not a product of my imagination., and not once, but many times.

What happens when you take a six lane interstate highway in the U.S. and for even the shortest stretch reduce the flow of traffic to merely one lane due to road construction? Does the traffic slow down for just 100 yards or does it back up for miles? Well, if the highway is very busy it's going to back up for miles, and that's a fact. Same same here. There's a lot of traffic going to and from Jomtien, but it's much worse at certain times of the day than it is at other times. There's just one main route to Jomtien in this area and the main choke point consists of a two lane road crossing

I think that's a very valid point, Alan. Unless Pete's changed the situation concerning the safes, yes....they can be moved to another room. Or for that matter, one could have an accomplice or two on the ground beneath a room's balcony and lower the safe by a bed sheet, rope or whatever. Now first off, I'm not all that familiar with the new Skytop. With the old one there was a problem with the roof that would have not allowed that although one could manage if from the South side facing the beer bars. So it's onto the robbery situation number 2 where one moves a safe to a nearby

So what do we do about someone like Leo? Leo used to be the bouncer at the Platinum Club in East St. Louis. Once, the General Manager, asked me to go over to Leo's house to shoot a video of him working out because he was interested in helping Leo get a little exposure that might help him get into professional fighting---perhaps "Professional wrestling" of some form or another. So I went over to Leo's house in St. Louis with my Nikon D-1 X and a video camera and got some shots of Leo with his family (They were all from Yugoslavia). They had an external two car garage that they had convert

Many thanks, Top Cat. You are a fair minded guy. Besides....we don't even know the exact circumstances about anyone...that is what goes on behind closed doors. Back in the U.S. a doctor friend of mine slept in separate rooms away from his wife. They had not had sex together for years. I should call him to invite him to Pattaya. An English pal of mine never has sex with his wife because she no longer wants it with anyone, but he still pays all her bills, while he stays in Pattaya for extended periods of time. So she's got a life of her own while he pays the rent and the other bills,

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone". Other than this, what does all of the above have to do with the subject matter of the original post?

Attention Tom. Two T's (Tit for Tat). Secondly, your first statement is argumentative as it seeks to minimize the person you are trying to criticize while focusing attention away from the issues or points he's made. Lastly, you have not dealt with these issues or points whatsoever. If this were part of a term paper or a law school brief, I'd have to give you an F double minus. But you are in luck. It's not.

Tom.....I would not stay at Residence Garden or for that matter anywhere other than where I'm at. I own the condo I'm living in so I cannot offer to anyone here a treatise on what staying at Residence Garden is like. But here's what I do offer. And to quote you again, ""And the last time you actually stayed on Thappraya Rd is?" Well try this out for size. Within ONE HALF HOUR of my last post here, which was this morning I was on my motorbike passing Residence Garden. I was on my way to do my 90 day report to Immigration for my retirement visa. Traffic on Beach Road going to South Pa

Not so sure about that one either, Casper. Right after that fight in college I had a lot of pain in my hand and my knuckles were scraped raw, but man, that felt so good. My ears were ringing too and I had pain in my head, but I went to a nearby bar with some friends and reveled over what I had done to the other guy. The young man was a complete ass and so were his buddies and it just felt so good after destroying him. as I started to feel the pain in various places of my body. Key word here is after.

As Big D just pointed out, there is a light down at Central Road at Tops which spells relief. But my map shows the real story at Residence Garden. That's the major choke point I've high lighted. It is here where the street converges with another one, the street that becomes 2nd Road. Here two lines of traffic come together with one or more vehicles from one street having to let other vehicles from the other street go ahead of them. The piling up of vehicles in this area caused by this choke point is relentless and tedious. This is simple bad news. If you are walking to the Convenience s

That never worked on me. I got slammed in the head outside a bar when I was a Junior in College. Long story but the guy was substantially bigger than me and his punch actually punctured my ear drum. I wound up knocking him down, and had the police not arrived after which I was pulled off him, he would have been seriously injured. Second time it happened was in a country bar in Central Illinois. The guy got the first punch, a surprise punch in, and I knocked him down. Third time that happened, the bouncer of a titty bar threw me up against a door and punched me solidly in the face. In sh

Each to his own, but I will often do long walks with a Norwegian pal and we will walk all the way from Naklua to a position just shy of Residence Garden but sometimes past Residence Garden and back. Needless to say we are hoofing it and we are both very familiar with Residence Garden's location. Here is what Per had to say about the place. He used to say there often but that was a few years ago. "It used to cost 800 baht and that was worth it," Per told me, while we were actually walking together within 600 meters of Residence Garden just last week. "But each year it got higher and hig

Shortest distance between two points is from the hand to the head, not the foot to the head. Pure physics. And if you have the speed to get the punch in there and you have the power, it's over.

Point well taken. Ich sprechen ze Deutsch eine bichen. Wish I had formally taken German instead of French in school. But oh well. Have picked up a little here and there. At least enough to get the guys laughing.

Most of them in these parts speak English. And the more I'm around them, the more I respect them, although not all by any means. And even my English pals living in my condo will admit that in the bars in this area there simply are not the number of fights you will find in Central Pattaya, particularly around Sois 7 and 8 which have a large percentage of English visitors. These same pals tell me that they don't even feel at home in the pubs back in the U.K. due to the younger guys trying to pick fights at every opportunity. So I really don't mind living in an area that has more than its sha

Tom....What is your problem? Are you afraid to meet up with Big D and me at Skytop. Well don't worry. We weren't going to hurt you. We were going to buy you a beer.

Not so sure Big D will be here in February and in late February I'm headed to Vietnam. Hey...what's the big deal? We'd like to see you in December. Consider it a Christmas present to us. We will wait for you to take your measure.

So let's do it in December when Big D's here. Right in the mouth of the volcano. Beers in front of Skytop with Pete as our bartender.

Nothing wrong with that either, Tom.