out the door at 7:am

i had to replace my passport before we left home and because of some comedy of errors between

  us and post office . It did not arrive until one week before we left. Actually it didn't arrive then --

 they sent an email that said I had to send different picture and old passport. We go high tailing it

  down to the post office ----agh 1week till take off. 

Well ,she sends us down to Tucson ,where there is a big passport center. The only one in the

  state. They can make you passport right there. Hurrah,

got that all taken care of but no time to send to Thailand Counsalate for 90 day visas.

So we fly by the seat of our pants. We come into Thailand on what they call an entry visa.

that means you have 30 days........then out unless you can get them to extend your visa..

so so we took what is called a Visa Run . That means you spend 4 hours running up to the

  country of   Burma border and pray they will extend your visa. It is at the descresion of the

  immigration  officer. He can say no-- he can give you 15 days or he can be a sweetly and give

  you 30 days..

everything went great


so we have 30 more days... Yippee !


so for the ride... Oh my goodness,! 

Wew we have seen taxi drivers in NYC. They drive crazy! But this guy would win any contest !  

Curvey mountain roads slow cars pull to the left on shoulder going up. (They drive on left

  remember) . They keep going as fast as they can then we drive down the center line going up to

  pass. Then of course the people coming down hill doing the same thing. If two cars are on

  center line one going up and one going down ,the car that has a spot moves over, so all can keep

going. Roy kept watching the driving and one of the passengers told him. "Just don't pay 

 attention to the driver". Guess what it works! At the end of the day we are back home safe and sound. Guess we will mark this up to clean living and lots of prayers.

as aggressive as the drivers are here we have never seen any accidents. It's amazing !

so we are just driving along and all of a sudden. "Cock-a-doodle-dooooo". Ear splitting. 

It's a good thing we had all gone to the restroom!!

the driver was transporting a fighting rooster to a small town. A guy comes up to van on a

  scooter. He has a dog between his feet , he tucks the box with the rooster under his arm and 

 off he goes.

we seen the box back there but we didn't see any holes in it. Roy's still laughing!