Hi again. Forgot to tell you about our mini shakedown by the police while on our most excellent road adventure with Chai. We were stopped at a police check point set up, I'm sure, to supplement their beer fund. Chai produced his papers, which include licenses to operate a taxi and to act as a tour guide. The police officer pronounced that something did not look quite right, although he wasn't clear on what the something was. Much debate, the bottom line of which was that we were not going anywhere in a hurry. He scratched his chin, looked off in the distance, told us what a reasonable fellow he was, and asked Chai how he wanted to handle things. He didn't ask directly for money, but accepted 100 baht ($3.00) donation to forget the mysterious
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