Articles tagged with: mine
Second Prison Visit
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”)
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
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
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
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
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. …
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Friday, February 16 8:30 a.m.
Yesterday was a day for taking stock of the pummelling that my gear underwent on my tour through the Fouta. Even in the first couple of days it was clear I hadn’t really prepared for it or known exactly how serious it could be. This was when I discovered that cooking pots nested together loosely will beat the crap out of …
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Tuesday, February 13 – 8:00 a.m. Labe
Every once in a while in the life of a cyclist a day comes along that is like a gift. Yesterday was such a day.
It started early for me as usual. I woke up before sunrise, did battle with the legions of spiders that had moved in on me during the night and quietly shifted my gear and bicycle …