In September 2010 Jim went to the Thai Consul (located above the Union Oyster House in Boston) to get three 60-day tourist visas for us to use this winter in Thailand. Normally, every two months, we must exit the country at one of the borders in Thailand - Burma, Laos, Cambodia or Malaysia - and return with a stamp for our 2nd 60-day visa. 
After 60 days, we went to Mae Sai at the Burma border to get our passports stamped for our next 60 days. It was there we discovered that the Thai Consul in Boston had stamped the wrong date in our passports and, technically, our next two 60-day visas were null and void, expired, invalid, terminated, kaput, no good. 
Instead of two more care-free months, we were given only 14 days. The consequences of this are we either 1)return to a border every 14 days until we leave the country for good, 2)travel to the consul in Laos or Malaysia where they might not give us another tourist visa as we, technically, have already been given three for the year, or 3)exit Tland and then FLY back in as opposed to train or bus, where we'd get another 30 days. Right now, it looks like the best idea is travel to Mae several more times, getting only 14 days at a time and then bailing out early. I hope we have learned a lesson about scrutinzing any dates that are stamped in our passports as mistake do happen. Apparently.
In the meantime, we are going to enjoy the rest of our time here, including fresh coconut!
