Oh, I may make fun of their mystical Chinese medicine, Feng Shui, superstitions, ghost concerns and a host of other completely illogical remnants to the dark ages of man’s reason, but that notwithstanding, the Taiwanese are at heart a science-loving, technology-obsessed people, which makes them infinitely superior to a vast swath of science-denialist Americans who … Read more
Like the US, Costco in Taiwan has a low-price food court, featuring products made from available ingredients at Costco. The menu is similar but different: Chicken ceasar salad Clam chowder Chicken bake Bulgogi (beef) bake Hot dog (all-pork) & drink Seafood pizza Hawaiian pizza Peking duck pizza Bacon cheese hamburger & drink Mango smoothie Hokkaido … Read more
We bought high speed rail tickets at 7-11 and with the purchase we got several free bottles of tea. (Pictured here.) It’s green tea with barley, buckwheat and black bean. It tastes exactly like someone disolved a bowl of Cherios into green tea. Yuck!
At last I’ve finally caught up. All that cow excitement was beginning to make me fall behind, but I’ve got a couple more hours on the train from Taitung to Taipei and nothing to do except burn out my batteries. Michelle has exhausted all but the last of my iPhone’s battery playing Monopoly and now … Read more
No written content, just a couple pano pictures to show you our room.
I knew that after a visit to the Pastureland Resort Experience, life was going to be a pale imitation of its former self, but I was determined to soldier on. It seems that Guanshan Township is part of the great Taiwanese bicycle experience. Sometime after our last visit, a bicycling craze overtook the island, with … Read more
If I haven’t got you confused with my post numbering by now, I never will. Let’s see, I left off at the sugar refinery, on our way to the cows. Oh, OK, right… so, we left the sugar refinery and we went to the cow place, known formally (in English) as Rareseed Ranch, where they … Read more
As you can see from this picture, I made it to the “Pastureland Resort Experience Area” but if you think I’m going to tell you about it straight away, you’ve got another think coming. It was a long day to get to those cows, and it’s going to be a long blog post to get … Read more
Taiwan is a different place. Oh, I know, that’s not the single most insightful thing I’ve ever written, but neither is it as fatuous as it sounds. Regular readers of my blog may remember my last trip to Taiwan where we went to visit a major tourist destination: a sheep farm. It was pleasant and … Read more
A video in which I totally didn’t capture the concept of “narrative.” You can watch this in HD if you follow the link. Taiwan 2010 – Video I from Lone Locust Productions on Vimeo. Some seriously disassociated video of the first two days in Taiwan. For hardcore family video fans only.