Adventure Indonesia–Commence!

Adventure Indonesia–Commence!

We’re in Indonesia!! I know, we just went home to North Carolina for Christmas—which was so incredibly awesome—but we finally have our long awaited one-month hiatus from work. Sort of a teacher’s summer vacation except for it’s now. And what better way to spend your...

October in Taiwan: A Review in 31 Pictures

Call me unoriginal, but I love the month of October. Dan asked me to be his girlfriend six Octobers ago; he proposed a lifetime together only two back. Octobers bring things like the state fair and deep-fried snicker bars, pumpkin spiced everything, and the perfect...

Taiwan’s Boat Burning Festival, 2012

Sometimes it gets a bit easy to forget that we are expats, living halfway across the world from “the peak of good living” (otherwise known as Apex, N.C.). People always seem surprised when I say that, probably assuming that the whole not-speaking-Chinese thing might...

Day 351: Half-Marathon, Beitou

We’re training for the Taipei International Marathon! (Wish I could go back and show my high school track coach that I can in fact run more than two miles!) As part of the training process, we completed our first half-marathon today in Beitou. Although a great...

Day 349: Having Fun Yet?

  This is my family. They flew all the way from America just to spend some time with us. Pretty special, aren’t we? I’m not so sure how our tour guides skills are though. Perhaps this look of disgust is a result of the poncho?