Breakfast, the usual: Cong You Bing, no surprises. After breakfast, I had a snack I couldn’t resist, Fried Chicken Flavor Cheetos. This actually consists of completely cheeseless-flavored cheetos, (in fact, almost completely flavorless cheetos) which you sprinkle a packet of flavoring over. That packet is, I’m convinced, the exact same stuff you mix in chicken-flavored … Read more
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
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