Travel-related posts before they get moved to travel.lonelocust.com
9:00AM comes early in West Yellowstone, (especially since it was 8:00AM Arizona time) and it was off in the mini-van for great adventures. Considering our hotel location and duration of our stay, the general layout of Yellowstone stinks. Each day we would have to travel the same entry strectch of the road until we reached … Read more
Prologue As a child, hardly an amenable weekend went by without my father taking me camping around Arizona. During longer breaks from school we’d travel father afield and there aren’t any western states that we didn’t camp in. While I enjoyed both the experience and the opportunity immensely, these memories of childhood are haphazard memories, … Read more
Our flight to Singapore was at 9:20AM, so we planned for an early start to the airport.
I awoke with a bit more energy than the day before, and I was going to need it. This was phase two of the Wedding Photography Adventure: Picture Day. With luck we’d spend the entire day driving around scenic spots in and around Taipei having wedding pictures taken.
I awoke the next morning, surprised that I had slept for over 14 hours. While I was nearly unconscious, Chu-Wan had gone out to the night market with a school friend. I had been too sick to notice.
I awoke with a cold. Visions of my previous Taiwan trip, which had been hampered by a bad cold were haunting me. “No”, I cried, ” this will not happen again!” Perhaps saying this outloud the moment I awoke was an indication that fever had already set in.
The Leofoo was a pretty hotel with small, but clean rooms. Each morning, guests were given a “Western-style” all-you-can-eat buffet breakfast. The meal consisted of sausage, bacon, eggs, rolls, toast, corn flakes and a curious, soggy, gloppy, watery rice dish.
Our trip began with a 14-hour confinement aboard an EVA air 747. Unlike my previous flight, the plane wasn’t crowded and we had our pick of the seats. For practicality’s sake, I choose to sit in the aisle seat of an exit row; A position which afforded me a luxurious amount of legroom for my 6’3″ frame.
Sunday we caught the Taipei Rapid Transit System (TRTS) train north to Tanshui which is at the mouth of the Tanshui river as it spills out into the East China Sea.
Saturday was both Chu-Wan’s mother’s and brother’s birthday. I was surprised when, first thing in the morning, her mother gave me a present. It was rather awkward as I didn’t really understand how to interpret this. The present was a very nice (and expensive) designer belt from Paris. Unfortunately, it was too big and we took it back to the Sogo Department store to exchange it for a smaller one.