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Green Island 001 – Train to Taidong

October 2, 2010 – 2:52 pm
Green Island Shore

Saturday October 2, 2010
Taidong
Getting up yesterday morning to catch a 6:45 train left me really tired. I spent all of yesterday in a total daze. I couldn’t do anything.
The train trip, therefore, wasn’t that great. I was too tired to sleep, too tired to read, and of course there was no one to talk to. That’s a weird thing about traveling around Taiwan. I guess …

Lukang 002 – City of Temples

July 10, 2010 – 2:19 pm
Worshipper at a Temple in Lukang

Saturday July 10, 2010
My one full day in Lukang turned out to be a fairly pleasant though extremely hot and confusing one. It was pleasant because there are lots of interesting things to see in Lukang. It was hot because it was really hot (I ended up taking five or six cold-water showers during the day). It was confusing because I could never quite figure …

Lukang 001 – HSR and Bus to Lukang

July 9, 2010 – 2:16 pm
Offerings in a Temple in Lukang

Friday July 9 2010
This time it was a snap decision to go to a small town on the west coast called Lukang. I hadn’t even heard of the place until a couple of days ago. It has a population of 87,000 and on the surface looks exactly like every other town I’ve seen in Taiwan. If someone blindfolded me and moved me to a street …