Lantern Festival and the 20-Meter Serpent

Last year, you probably would have considered our experience at Lantern Festival to be a bit less than ideal.     Yeaaa. That’s Dan holding our blazing sky lantern, completely obliterating his dream of finally getting a pony.  He’s still waiting for Santa to...

World Baseball Classic: Chinese Taipei

“Quan Lei Da” (Home run) “Zhong Hua Dui, Jia You” (Chinese Taipei, Let’s Go) OOOOHHHH  SEE YA (that one’s the same) Taiwanese people love them some baseball. And even though Linsanity was huge over here for a while, baseball still takes the prize as national sport of...

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...