Travel-related posts before they get moved to travel.lonelocust.com
wp1905 Originally uploaded by Gridman. Looks who’s coming for breakfast on Sunday. Super Typhoon Longwang (I’m not making that up) currently a strong category 4 storm packing 150 MPH winds (gusting to 185 MPH) is heading straight on for Taiwan. While I’m not too worried here on the east side of the island, we’re supposed … Read more
Events of 9/29/2005
Time differences were really pronounced today, after a long flight, we arrived just before 6:00AM, ready to start a whole new day of eating. The food on the flight was as good as could be expected, but not an overwhelming amount for a 14 hours jaunt, so I was hungry. Our first excursion for food … Read more
Disturbing Teapot Head Man Poses with Michelle Originally uploaded by Gridman. We’ve arrived. There’s really nothing that can make that flight enjoyable, but there are lots of things that can go wrong. Many of those things you can see coming a mile away… like for example, the kids being utterly bored and bothersome (or worse) … Read more
In 2003, Irene and I took Michelle back to Taiwan for her first trip. Now, we’re preparing for James’ first trip to Taiwan. As part of my preparation, I’m reviewing the video footage from the last trip to see if anything will be useful for this trip. I’m posting this video of the fireworks firefight … Read more
After the inauspicious start on Monday, Tuesday promised to be better. With nothing in particular to do, getting going in the morning was slow. We were out just intime for lunch at Pizza by George (see review elsewhere on this site) and then we headed out for Sunset Crater. We wanted to find a place … Read more
Since this is the shakedown cruise of the blog at Lone Locust, I make no apologies for the disorganized approach I’m using at the moment. It’s our first morning in Flagstaff and I’m the only one awake, I’m cathcing up on yesterday’s entry because I just didn’t get around to it last night. Without further … Read more
We’re in Flagstaff now, “enjoying” a “free” vacation at the Holiday Inn Express. “Free” because we were given a vacation package as a promotional distribution, but it turns out that, even though it really is a freebie, it is still tied with a timeshare and we can get some upgrades if we went to the … Read more
June 5, 2001 – June 14, 2001 We’ve been in Taipei just over a week and things have finally begun shaking. When we arrived at Chiang Kai-Shek airport I was at first disappointed that we arrived at the old terminal 1 building. They recently opened a newer, bigger, more modern terminal 2. For whatever reason, … Read more
We made our way out of Jackson and back to Pocatello via the scenic route, over the Teton Pass. We went this way partially because I didn’t want to go into the lower plains any sooner than I had to, and partly because everywhere we went that damn WYDOT (Wyoming Department of Transportation) was tearing … Read more