August 1, 2010
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Taiwan: End of the second leg

So, once again I have run out of time and can’t give you the nitty gritty details of the rest of my adventures in Taiwan.  That’s not necessarily a bad thing.  Now you will have something to ask me about the next time we meet and you buy me a beer .

Some of the things

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August 1, 2010
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Hualien fun: A day in Taroko Gorge

‘Well, this is another interesting turn of events,’ I thought to myself as I clung to the back of a scooter as it zoomed along the road between two steep cliffs and beside a rushing river.  Just a few minutes before I had been hiking down Taroko gorge at the end of my strength after 20

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July 27, 2010
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Memories of Kaohsiung: Parting is such sweet sorrow...

I stepped off the train in Hualien and knew it was going to be one of those nights.  Five and a half hours ago I had boarded a train in Kaohsiung in weather that might have been considered decent but as we moved steadily northward it became apparent that decent was going to turn into crap. 

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