Friday, April 1, 2011 6:30 p.m. Post day wrap-up, though I don’t know that I have enough energy to cover it all. All I did was go for a walk and explore the town of Mambajao, but that was enough for today. My bungalow, Jasmin by the Sea, is in…
Camiguin Trip 002 – Arrival on the Island and My Hotel Jasmin by the Sea
Friday April 1, 2011 10:30 a.m.Jasmin by the SeaCamiguin, Philippines It is the next morning now. Technically it is my second morning in the Philippines, but it is the first morning that I’ve woken up here. It is raining fairly hard and, in fact, has been raining all night. It…
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Camiguin Trip 001 – Flight to Cagayan de Oro and Bus to Balingoan
Thursday March 31, 20114:30 a.m. Manila Airport It’s amazing that anyone can get through the process of flying from one country to another without losing something important. I do my best to prepare for these things, but what with fatigue, the complexity, and the security systems at the airport, it’s…
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Journal: Alishan Trip 003 – The Northern Tsou Villages (Taiwan)
July 5, 2010 The aboriginal people of the Alishan area are known as the Tsou. I know next to nothing about them except that they are the original inhabitants of this area and that the villages and towns around here are Tsou. I assume they speak their own language as…
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Journal: Alishan Trip 002 – The Giant Trees (Taiwan)
Saturday July 3, 2010 After my rejection of the Fancylake breakfast, I got a biendang and then went for a stroll through the trails up above Fenqihu. I marveled again at all the work that went into building them. They really were beautiful trails. Each one was only a kilometer…
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Journal: Alishan Trip 001 – Snap Decision to Go to Alishan (Taiwan)
Friday July 2, 2010 7:00 Snap decision to go to Alishan. It’s seven in the morning, and the train has just left from the platform. I’ve had so much experience taking these trains and it is so easy that I’m taking it almost too casually. I stroll out of Rooftop…
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Wulai Trip 003 – Photo Gallery
This Link will take you to the Wulai Trip Photo Gallery on Planet Doug SmugMug.
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Wulai Trip 002 – Last Morning in Wulai and Trip Back to Taipei
Sunday November 8, 2009 Well, it’s Sunday morning and my sojourn in Wulai is almost at an end. I did not get in my 200 km of cycling, but I enjoyed this very much. The hordes were out in full force yesterday evening, and after my train ride, I wandered…
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Wulai Trip 001 – Getting a Room at a Hot Springs Hotel
November 7, 2009 I am in Wulai. I had plans to go much further than this. Wulai is so close that it hardly counts as leaving Taipei. However, things seem different when you are on a bicycle, and I do feel like I have gone on a trip. Had I…
