I've been in Taitung for two days, hopefully soon on my way to Ludao Island and Lanyu Island, however a typhoon that should be passing over or actually underneath Taiwan after midnight tonight has thrown a kink into those plans....
dc checking in. against my better financial judgement, i called him this morning. "no. i don't have the sars, and we still haven't been bombed by north korea." he and a friend are in a rented car driving down the...
Catching up on posting dc's taiwanese correspondence...chronological style Dear loved ones, Holy Crap! I'm in Taiwan. The flight was grueling and smelly as expected. I got in early and had to kill a few hours before checking in. I bought...
It wasn’t at all what I expected. I imagined stepping out onto a deserted street like Charlton Heston in The Omega Man to discover that I was the last human being alive on earth. That was hardly the case. True...