Articles tagged with: Canada
Hsinchu County Scooter Trip 001 – Neiwan
Saturday February 26, 2011
8:25 a.m. Neiwan, Taiwan
The stage for this little trip in Taiwan will be pretty difficult to set, as there are very few places like this little town anywhere in the world. I guess you could call it a tourist town. At one time, Taiwan was a Japanese colony, and the Japanese built a number of narrow-gauge railways to serve mining and forestry …
North Cross-Island Highway 007 – HsingHsing
Sunday February 6, 2011
8:00 a.m. Still in Baling
My goal for yesterday was to drive my scooter into the mountains southwest of Baling. When I drove to Upper baling, I could look across the valley and see other mountain roads climbing and climbing higher into those mountains. It was impossible to tell from my maps where those roads went or what was over there, but that …
Getting Eyeglasses in Taipei
Here’s a story about what has been going on lately. Nothing wild and crazy. Just life.
Years ago, almost decades ago, I got glasses while I was living in South Korea. I didn’t really need them to do anything important. I was a little bit nearsighted, I guess, which means that I could see things up close very well. It was only some things in the …
Palawan Motorbike Trip 012
Friday February 19, 2009 8:05 a.m.
San Vicente, Palawan
Much better this morning. I had three bottles of beer with Jason last night instead of five (or was it six?). And I slept well and I have no hangover at all this morning. It wasn’t even Jason who got me to drink. I showed up at his place last night with a knapsack of beer. He doesn’t …
Palawan Motorbike Trip 010
Our first stop was an unusual one. It consisted of a very small collection of huts on a tiny beach. No one on the boat spoke English, so I spent most of the day just guessing what we were doing and why we were doing it. This place didn’t seem large enough to need any bread deliveries. And Jack-Jack said something about this being where …
SCIH 006 – Road Ends at a Ghost Town
The real fun began a few kilometers later. I was “zooming” along on my bike when I passed a big earth mover. As I passed it, I heard a voice shout something at me, and a second later, I was at the base of a huge pile of rubble blocking the road. It seemed that I’d found the end of the road. And it really …
Guinea 031
Wednesday, January 10 7:00 p.m.
On the road again, fifty-eight kilometres up the road from Kindia in the small town of Sogueta. There’s no hotel here and I find myself camping out in the dirt lot behind the local hospital. There’s a respectable latrine and a good supply of water right at hand so with my tent, Thermarest, stove, and other technological marvels it’s quite comfortable …
Guinea 028
Sunday, January 7 8:45 a.m.
I’ve been in Kindia nearly a week now and it’s starting to feel like time to move on. But not today. Today I’ve been invited to a kind of memorial service for Ashaki’s uncle. He died forty days ago and the entire family and many friends have been arriving all weekend for the service or “sacrifice” as Phd has been calling …