Articles tagged with: train
A Flight to Manila & School Visits
Saturday December 8, 2012
10:00 a.m. at the 7-11 on Chang-an Road in Taipei
It has been a busy week for me. I went to three different schools and had a ton of recording to do at work. But let’s go back to Sunday. I’m a bit tired right now. I was out until midnight last night chatting with a coworker. He got me talking about my …
Sandiaoling Waterfall Trail
I’d been interested in hiking along the Sandiaoling Waterfall trail for a while now. I’d read about it on Richard Saunders’ blog here and Stu Dawson’s blog here. It appeared to be a relatively easy hike without a lot of long climbs yet with a lot of scenic spots along the way. I haven’t gone in the past partially because I wasn’t sure about the …
Urban Nomad, Returning to Olympus, a Singing Contest & More!
A not-so-quick note about recent goings-on in Taipei: The Urban Nomad film festival has been underway for the past ten or eleven days. I believe Sunday (April 22nd) was the last day. I went to see The Taiwan Oyster on the opening night of the festival. It was an interesting night. The venue for the festival is one of the huge warehouse-type buildings at Huashan …
Return to Shihfen and Jioufen by Scooter
Sunday October 30 7:30 a.m.
Jioufen,Taiwan
I believe Jioufen was my second trip out of Taipei when I first came to Taiwan. I rode my bike here and stayed at a relatively fancy place called Old Window. I wouldn’t normally have stayed at a place that cost that much a night, but everything else was booked. At least, the places I could find were booked. Since then …
Kenting 001 – HSR & Bus to Kenting
Friday December 3, 2010
Taiwan HSR Train 123 Car 4 Seat 3A
8:50 a.m.
The train is scheduled to leave at 8:54, and I’m pretty sure it will leave exactly to the minute. Train trips out of Taipei are so easy for me that they are a real pleasure. Living right above the MRT station and one stop away from the train station has its advantages. Even the …
Green Island 002 – My Secret Swimming Holes
Sunday October 3
I don’t know if any of the above made any sense. I don’t think I was very awake while I wrote it. The main point is that I changed my plans and I went to Green island by boat instead of driving to Kenting by scooter. And here I am on Green Island.
Everything went like clockwork. I think I was fortunate to have …
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 …
Puli 002 – Scootering in the Mountains
July 25, 2010
The next morning, I hopped on my scooter to drive up into the mountains along Highway 14. I knew that Highway 14 eventually linked up with Highway 8 that goes down through Taroko Gorge, but I hadn’t stopped to consider what that would mean for a leisurely Saturday drive in the summer. What it meant, of course, was heavy traffic as only Taiwan …