I’m back! Words cannot describe the fantastic time I had in Taiwan. There’s many stories to tell. And over the next several weeks, I’ll try to get explain some of them in detail.

The first album that’s been updated is New Year’s Eve in Taipei. We took a bus into Taipei and then took the MRT in Taipei to a Thai restaurant we were heading too. The MRT is crazy - but in a good way. Everything works like a well oiled machine. You pay, get your ticket, get on the MRT, get off, put your ticket into the machine and your done. Simple. I should have taken some pictures of the crowds. I can imagine it being like that everyday.

Oh I forgot to mention, you can drink everywhere. You buy beer at the local convenience store (7-Eleven is on every 2nd corner), and then drink it where ever you like. And the beers are huge. There are normal cans at some stores, but most sell the big 900 mL cans. How sweet is that!

After working are way through the crowd and stopping for a pee at the Grand Hyatt, we finally sat down in a street. By this time, it was the best place to sit as the crowds were packed. Fireworks were constantly going off everywhere. Most of the time they were lit in the middle of the street where everybody was. Imagine the chaos back home if somebody did that?

After the fireworks were over, (I’ll try to post a video later) we ventured away from our spot. Now where Amanda lives is about a 1/2 hour drive from where we were on a good day. The only way to get home is by taxi or by train. We decided against the train as there were already 600,000 other people doing the same thing. So we walked for a little while, flagged down a cab, and 45 minutes later were were home.

Oh and the cabs. Most of them don’t care. They weave in and out of traffic. If you’re in their way, you better stop cause they aren’t stopping for nobody, especially pedestrians. There was a couple of times in the trip where I would start walking across the road only to get honked at and almost ran over.

There’s still more to come. Stay tuned.

-Matty