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Second Prison Visit

October 3, 2013 – 2:06 pm
Boy Running from a Wave

My second visit to the prison began very much like the first. I showed up at 1:00 o’clock, and there was a lineup of about twenty-five women at the door, some with young children and many with bundles of food. There were far more motorcycles parked around the door and sidewalk this time, and the lineup was even more of a mess. It also seemed …

Bubble Milk Tea in the Philippines (with “sinkers”)

April 7, 2013 – 3:02 pm
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A bubble milk tea stand at a shopping mall in the Philippines. I chatted with the women at this stand and I told them that bubble milk tea was invented in Taiwan. They didn’t believe me. I ordered a Royal Milk Tea (medium). When you want the full bubble milk tea, you can ask for “pearls” or, as they call them here, “sinkers.” So I …

Photo Post: Teapot Mountain Lookout Point

November 6, 2012 – 4:44 pm
A Lookout Point on the Trail to the Top of Teapot Mountain

These are the steps leading up to the top of Teapot Mountain. Many of the shorter trails in Taiwan (and even some of the long ones) have stone steps built into them. I began the hike up this trail from the Gold Ecological Park in Jinguashi, though it appears it’s possible to drive most of the way to this lookout point below. That’s Keelung Mountain …

Choosing a WordPress Theme

November 20, 2011 – 7:27 am
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I would like to list all the astonishing and fun things I did on Saturday, but not having done many astonishing and fun things, I can’t. What I did instead was try to master some more of the inner workings of WordPress. That wouldn’t take so long except that I find everything so non-intuitive that I need to go some distance into actually setting something …

Pingshi 002 – Coal Mine Museum in Shifen

March 28, 2010 – 12:18 pm
Miner Mannequin at the Shifen Coal-Mine Museum

March 28, 2010
Mr. Wang had given me some maps of the area and even a train schedule. I hadn’t planned on riding the train, but he made it sound so simple, that I thought it would be a great thing to do to explore the little towns in the valley. Mr. Wang explained everything to me and in ten minutes, I was strolling through Pingshi’s …

Palawan Motorbike Trip 014

February 21, 2010 – 12:06 pm
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Sunday February 21, 2010 9:00 a.m.
Coco-Loco Island Resort, Palawan
It had to finally arrive, my last full day on Palawan. Tomorrow night I’ll be sleeping in my bed back in Taipei. Though this really isn’t my last day in Palawan when you think about it. I take the boat back to the main island tomorrow morning at 8:00. So I’ll be waking up here in paradise. …

024 – Asa Belobelo – Eat Fish

October 25, 1998 – 7:42 pm
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Zebachew invited me to go with him to an azmari beat or traditional Ethiopian music house. I knew even before I came to Ethiopia that one night would find me at an azmari beat. It’s one of those traditional things that is mentioned in every book. For that reason I wasn’t exactly excited about it. I suspected that it might be at one extreme a …

014 – You You

October 15, 1998 – 7:14 pm
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When Dawit stood me up on the trip to the market, I took the plunge and unleashed the powers of my “Route 66” mountain bike with its Rhino rims, Python tires, Snakebite tubes and 24 speed LX gears on the city. I simply chose a direction and went. The layout of Addis was still a mystery. I find if my first day in a new …