Archives for "January, 2007"
Taiwan – Back to Taipei
We got back to the dorm in the afternoon on Thursday. Amanda did a few loads of laundry as we unpacked from the road trip. Before we went out for supper, I wrote on my postcards I had bought. Word on the street is people have received them – 11 days after I sent them…not [...]
Taiwan Road Trip – Toroko Gorge
We had to sit around the Taitung train station for about 2 hours while we waited for out train to arrive. We read some paper and drank some coffee. They at least sell a couple of English newspapers. It doesn’t tell much about the rest of the world news, but at least you get a [...]
Taiwan Road Trip – Rainbow Resort
On Monday we took the tent down, packed up the scooter and headed back into town to drop the scooter back of to the rental place. We waited for a bus to take us to Fanglio. After about a 45 minute bus ride, we bought some train tickets to take us across the island, through [...]
Taiwan Road Trip – Kenting Part 2
We were woken relatively early by some roosters a couple of properties down. By relatively I mean 9:30 am. The day before at the Mexican restaurant we had noticed that they served breakfasts there so we decided to head there again. They had freshly squeezed orange juice which was awesome. I ordered an omelet which [...]
Taiwan Road Trip – Kenting Part 1
We checked out of the cheap hotel on Saturday morning and starting walking down the street to look for a bus to take us down to Kenting. We kind of stuck out from the locals as were carrying all of our gear, so we were quickly approached by several people asking where we were going [...]