Thai Border

Trip Start Feb 25, 2006
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Trip End Jun 24, 2009


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Thursday, October 19, 2006

As with most countries, there are limits to the number of bottles of booze you can take into any border crossing. I figured that the standard limit is 1 liter of alcohol so I buy a bottle of Johnny Walker and a few bottles of Beer Lao for my trip back home before I hop on the boat that takes me across the river. When I get to the Thai side, there is really not much as far as a border checkpoint. You can basically walk past the small building that houses 'immigration' without even noticing it. I stop to do the right thing as I'm trying to stay in Thailand as long as I can with the new tourism policy. As I'm filling out my entry card, I notice some bastard standing close to my bags so I say get away from my bag and go on filling out my info. When I get my passport back from the officer, I turn around and my bag is GONE! I quickly scan the street and the jetty and see my bag in the back of a taxi. I run up and grab my bag back and tell them to fuck off! Unfortunately, the people in the back of the taxi probably had nothing to do with it. Welcome back to thieving Golden Triangle Thailand. Whew! Disaster averted. I would have been really pissed if they got off with my bottle of JW and Beer Lao. My Eddie Bauer carry-on bag got a flat tire last month and is mostly worthless and the clothes inside are worth about the same after 9 months of wearing the same things. Lao was great with very friendly people. Most people don't even lock up their bikes and I guess my guard went down a bit after a month. This is not the friendly Thailand that I remember at all.
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gremlin_bo
gremlin_bo on Sep 27, 2007 at 01:05PM

shoot
it reminds me of manila...
or just my city....

thieves everywhere....

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