Articles tagged with: NT
North Cross-Island Highway 002 – Fushing and Green Light Sheep Farm
Tuesday February 1, 2011
7:35 a.m. Fushing Youth Activity Center
Life simply doesn’t get any better than this. The skies are blue, the air is crisp and cold, I have a hot cup of coffee, and I am sitting at a floor-to-ceiling and wall-to-wall window with a beautiful view of mountains and lakes. I also have a tremendous room with an equally wonderful view. It’s a western …
Kenting 002 – Powerful Winds and the Formost Hotel
Saturday December 4, 2010
9:47 a.m.
Lobby of the Formost Hotel
It’s an interesting feeling going to a place for the first time. You really have no idea of the lay of the land or what to expect. A young woman on the bus translated for me and asked me for the bus driver where I wanted to go. I said that I wanted to go to Kenting, …
Green Island 001 – Train to Taidong
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 …
A Small Miracle
I should amend that title. I’m talking about a VERY small miracle. In fact, it’s scooter-repair related. However, when your muffler is dragging along the pavement and your scooter is making more noise than a trio of Harley Davidsons, you’ll take any miracle you can get.
The muffler on my scooter fell off as I was driving to work in the rain this morning. I wasn’t …
Receipt Lottery Day in Taiwan
It’s my favorite day in Taiwan – the 25th day of an odd-numbered month.
On this day (which come around six times a year), the Ministry of Finance in Taiwan releases the Uniform Invoice Winning Numbers for the previous two months. That’s just a fancy way of saying it’s receipt lottery day.
In Taiwan, there is an 8-digit number printed at the top of every receipt that …
Wulai Weekend 001
November 7, 2009
I am in Wulai. I had plans to go much further than this. Wulai is so close that it hardly counts as leaving Taipei. However, things seem different when you are on a bicycle, and I do feel like I have gone on a trip. Had I come here by city bus or something, it might not feel like that.
My original plan was …
SCIH 005 – Typhoon Damage
Wednesday September 23, 2009 11:00a.m.
At the 7-11 back in Chiahsien
This may be a bit confusing, but I am back in Chiahsien and back at the 7-11. And it is only 11 in the morning and I’m done cycling for the day. So what the heck happened?
Well, quite a bit happened. For one thing, I got a forceful reminder of another thing that one should always …