Day 43: Seriously Huge Spiders

We saw the largest spiders of our lives on Taiwan’s Northeast Coast. And of course, once we saw one, we realized they were absolutely everywhere! Super thankful that we haven’t found any of these in our apartment yet, because I’m not sure I could...

Day 42: Keelung in the Hills

  Notice the Keelung sign in the hills? It’s white during the day, and looks oddly reminiscent of something you might find in, oh I don’t know, Hollywood? We didn’t spend much time in Keelung this past weekend, just using it as a base point for...

Day 40: Aboriginal Wine

Believe it or not, there are wineries in Taiwan specializing in various fruit wines and liquors. Unfortunately, we’ll be waiting until springtime (primetime) to visit one, but we did manage to pick up this bottle of aboriginal rice wine from Neiwan, a small...

Day 38: Pumpkin Soup

With all the Facebook status updates about pumpkin spice lattes from Starbucks and fall temperatures finally setting, I have been seriously craving some pumpkin soup. Found my fix at a place called Orange Mart in Zhubei. Definitely a great way to kill an hour in...