IMPORTANT: If You need help planning your visa run, this Pattaya to Savannakhet Visa Run article contains some useful links, including a link to the Thai consulate website, and where you can get help and read recent reports. My goal: Obtain a multi-entry 1-year Non-Immigrant’ O’ Visa based on marriage to a Thai. I plumped […]
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Surreal Thai Cremation Moments
During my stay in Thailand, surreality has repeatedly left me speechless, that’s because I’m not expecting to witness or experience a surreal moment at the time. Two of these surreal moments occurred at funerals, cremations to be more exact. Depending on your outlook, you may or may not expect bizarre, surreal experiences to take place […]
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I have a “love-hate” relationship with Maptaphut. After six weeks of working offshore, the mechanical skyline of Maptaphut is one of the most welcoming sights imaginable. It’s next stop Pattaya, and all the comforts of home, but you know soon enough you’ll see Maptaphut again. Strangely enough, on the return journey from Pattaya to Maptaphut […]
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When I first arrived in Pattaya I was a backpacker setting out on my journey of a lifetime. When I left Pattaya I was a failed backpacker, I was broke, in love, optimistic and hopeful, with a grand plan to return to my newly-found promised land. And that was the second and last time I […]
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Through circumstance, appointment, or coincidence. Because of passion, lust, or money. Surviving on wits, labor, or fortune. We all have our own story, however bizarre it might be. Why, when and how we came to stay in Pattaya? Below is my story, the story of a failed backpacker, a career changer, a guy who fell […]
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