Well, another Dragon Boat Festival has come and gone, and I’m sorry to be so late posting up on it, but I’m also behind on a lot of other posts now, as well (long story). At any rate, instead of rehashing what I posted last year, you can just go check out Dragon Boat Festival for [...]
It’s Chinese New Year (again). Welcome to the Year of the Ox! Hope you all have a wonderful year!!!!
On the way home from our Landrover Camping Trip, we decided to make a short detour up into the bamboo groves for a visit to my favorite spot in all of Taiwan – we usually just refer to it as ‘the mountain’ – a dead-end farmer’s access in a natural bamboo forest that overlooks the valley [...]
We went camping with my friend Billy and his Landrover club a couple of weeks ago at Tien Shr Farm in central Nantou. They have a pretty nice camp area set up, with lots of shade trees, but since we arrived pretty late in the afternoon we had to pitch our tents out in the [...]
We recently had a 3-day weekend here in Taiwan for the ‘Double Ten’ (Oct. 10th) celebration of the ROC national day, the equivalent of the US 4th of July. A friend of mine, Billy, is a well-known 4×4 driver and Landrover mechanic, and he invited me to join their Landrover Club for a camping holiday in central [...]
Well, I was going to skip posting about this typhoon because it didn’t seem like a big deal, but it suddenly swerved (literally6 90-degree turn) into us, and is probably the largest & strongest typhoon to hit us in a couple of years. Seems we always get a good one about the same time the [...]
At A Liang’s recent Tea Lecture, we got to enjoy fresh air, lush mountain scenery, and of course, some gnarly nature! His friend’s farm is home to all sorts of interesting critters. Two that stood out are featured here – if you’re squeamish, skip this one!
I really struggled with the decision to write this post – it’s a hard thing to admit to the whole world one is getting older. I turned ?? on Friday, August 8th (let’s just say I was born in the Year of the Horse, and you can go figure it out on your own HERE, ok??) [...]
Well, the typhoon is pretty much over, although we’ve still got some rain falling today. This typhoon was much stronger than Kalmaegi, which killed 20 people last week, yet so far only 2 deaths have been reported for this one. I think the preparation level was much higher this time around, as Kalmaegi was not [...]
Fung Wang looks set to hit mid-Taiwan head on, so I’ve cancelled my private classes today and invited my buddies over for a tea party tonight! With any ‘luck’ tomorrow will be a day off as well. While last week’s typhoon was mild but brought heavy rains, this storm is predicted to have much stronger [...]