To say Taiwan is a country of fads is to say fish like water. They get passionately crazy about the weirdest things! Last week I mentioned the curious food of fruit and condensed milk served over crushed ice. In my opinion this had to be the biggest dessert scam ever perpetrated against humanity. Biggest of … Read more
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.
Our first day in Taiwan passed somewhat uneventfully. We ate, we went to the park, we fought the insidious effects of jet lag – rather unsuccessfully, as, while I managed to stay awake until around 8:00PM local time (5:00AM AZ time) I awoke just before midnight feeling refreshed, wide-awake and hungry. The rest of the … Read more