by Casey Siemasko | Oct 1, 2011 | Philippines, Travel
You know you’re in tourist country—or at least somewhere trying to be—when there are horse carriages on every block ready to sweep you away on a romantic frolic around town. Manila, Philippines is no exception, and I would estimate that the horse carriage to tourist...
by Dan Moore | Oct 1, 2011 | 365 Photo Project
Rough life… our orchid from the Hsinchu Flower Market died. Maybe it’ll come back next season? For now it’s still the only decor we have in our apartment so it is going to stay where it’s at. Also, we haven’t watered it in about three...
by Dan Moore | Sep 30, 2011 | 365 Photo Project, Taiwan
Taiwanese love their little, white, fluffy puppies. So much so that they dye their tails purple and bring them inside restaurants. Pretty cute, isn’t he? On a side note, this was taken at Sandwich and Coffee, a pretty good Taiwanese chain that, surprise...
by Dan Moore | Sep 29, 2011 | 365 Photo Project, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Today we spent the morning ‘hiking’ around 18 Peaks Mountain. As you can see, a lot of the hiking here in Taiwan is really stair climbing. 18 Peaks Mountain is more of a park with paved walkways than a mountain (as the name would suggest), but it is...
by Dan Moore | Sep 28, 2011 | 365 Photo Project, Hsinchu, Taiwan
It’s official. I am the best teacher in the world!! Actually, this photo was from a performance day, so the students were acting out their skits while I was just capturing their enthusiasm from the sidelines.
by Dan Moore | Sep 26, 2011 | 365 Photo Project, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Gotta love interesting doors! Not even sure where this one goes.
by Dan Moore | Sep 25, 2011 | 365 Photo Project, Taiwan, Travel
We took a trip out to Lion’s Head Mountain today. This picture is just from the drive, which as you can see was beautiful!
by Dan Moore | Sep 24, 2011 | 365 Photo Project, Hsinchu, Taiwan
We actually do have friends here :-) Although slight disclaimer, it’s not our American flag. Bottom (left to right) Paul, Justin, Eric, Marne, …, Bernard. Top(left to right) Irene, Casey, Bryanna, Liam, Dan, and Coral
by Dan Moore | Sep 23, 2011 | 365 Photo Project, Hsinchu, Taiwan
Beef Noodles–our trustworthy fallback for lunch. We can’t even count the number of times we have walked into a restaurant where we were unable to communicate, so the wait staff just assumed we wanted to eat beef noodles. After all, we’re...
by Dan Moore | Sep 22, 2011 | 365 Photo Project, Hsinchu, Taiwan
This is our cozy gated community.