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 our day trips on...
Day 41: Kindergarten Kids Celebrate Taiwan’s Birthday
I worked A LOT of extra hours this week, but it was totally worth seeing all the smiling faces! These are my adopted kids celebrating Taiwan's birthday. Isla Formosa is officially 100 on October 10, 2011.
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 tourist...
Day 39: Personalities of a Jhubei Bridge
So I guess technically it's not one picture. But you've gotta see it all to get the full effect. I now present to you the personalities of a Jhubei Bridge. As you can see, we have: two dudes dressed as a lion, the 'Oh no you didn't just cross my bridge', the I'm just...
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...
Day 37: International Fender Bender
We had our first fender bender today. Luckily I stayed on me feet the whole time and it didn't do too much damage to the scooter, although the whole incident did take about two hours.