Border Runs and Printing

Next Wednesday we'll have been in Thailand 30 days. That means we have to make a border run to get another 30 days. But they've changed the law, effective last December, and now if you come into Thailand overland, you only get 15 days. You have to fly in to get 30 days. You can also get a 60 day visa if you are outside Thailand. So we're looking at trips out of Thailand. Our ideal is Vietnam which is close by and we've never been there. But next week the office is headed for Bangkok. Several leaders of organizations such as ours have a meeting with the new Prime Minister to talk about how the new land reform policy will be written. The meetings in Petchabun and at Wat Pa Dara Phirom focused on those issues. (I haven't written about the content of those meetings because I'm still a little iffy about what all was decided.) In any case, they expect not to get all they want and so a demonstration is planned for next Tuesday and Wednesday. Plus J has begun her Thai classes - three hours a day for three weeks, so we don't want her to miss a lot of class. I'm looking to see if we can go this weekend (since Monday is a holiday) and then she won't miss class.

To add to all this, JB, who worked in the MPA program at UAA for years and still works in the College of Business and Public Affairs, is coming to Thailand for her son's wedding on Feb. 14 in Ubon. We'd love to join them, but it's a 15 hour bus ride each way. On top of the trip to Bangkok and getting 30 more days, I just don't think we or I are going to make it.


If we fly to Vietnam, we have to go to Bangkok first. The only place out of Thailand that I've been able to find that we can fly to from here is Luang Prabang, Laos. We've been there and like it, but wanted some place we haven't been. So, we'll see.

And today I finally figured out how to print from my computer thru the wifi. Much easier than using a flashdrive to print. Thank you to the University of Baltimore Law Library which got us most of the way with their instructions on how to hook up in their library from Leopard.