Nanliao Fishing Port: Exploring Hsinchu

Sunday we had blistering winds and gloomy weather that made traveling on the scooter a little less than desirable for us newbies. Monday we had the day off of work for a typhoon day, but the typhoon ended up bypassing us all together. I don’t even think we had...

Our First Taiwan Post: Taipei!

After nearly three months of being married, we can finally say that we aren’t living out of a suitcase! We’ve officially settled ourselves in Hsinchu and this week commences the beginning of our year as ‘laoshi’, or teacher. We’re only teaching English for four hours...

Our Turn at The Seven Links Project

7 Links of the Year is a sort of blogging project currently being circulated around the travel blogosphere. Started by TripBase, the goal is to “unite bloggers in a joint endeavor to share lessons learned and create a bank of long but not forgotten blog posts...

Pittsburgh: Road Trip Closes, Airport Gates Open

If you read any of our posts about San Diego, Napa Valley, or Portland and Seattle, it was probably pretty obvious that we were having a splendid time exploring the West Coast. But there is one thing all those great places lack, and that’s family :-) Our last few...

Chicago: Razzlin’ and Dazzlin’

It started off as a town built out of entirely too much wood. Then fire swept through, causing destruction of epic proportions and the deaths of hundreds. But the result was an immediate rebuilding that transformed the place into one of America’s most important...