Now it’s back on the bus and down the winding mountain roads all the way to the ocean. We made our way to Yehliu Geopark, a 1700-meter-long narrow promontory jutting out from the coast on the north end of the island. A walkway takes you to the end of the point. Erosion has caused many…

We jumped on the tour bus and took a winding road up higher into the mountains, heading for Yangmingshan National Park. Some of us snacked on the lunches they provided as we travelled. Lunch was every possible permutation of white bread product you can imagine. Each one wrapped in its own cellophane bag. I guess…

It’s Monday morning. The kids have all arrived back from their homestays for one last day of activities with the high school. We all loaded on to a tour bus and headed to Yangmingshan Elementary School to do some lessons with the younger schoolchildren. The school sits high above Taipei with a beautiful view of…

The last two summers my family has hosted the same high school students, Mia/米雅 and Selena/得得, from Kaohsiung. They come to Portland to race in the Rose Festival dragon boat races and dance in the parade. Mia’s family drove five hours to come see Nathan, Hadley, Eli and myself (Nathan and Hadley also hosted students…

If you followed my blog last year you know that I consider myself a breakfast cereal connoisseur. I scoured Taipei to do this review of all the breakfast cereals I could find here, rating them based on taste and texture. Long story short there was a clear winner that emerged: Kellogg’s Frosties. These are not…

We’re back with the kids tomorrow but I thought I’d post a few miscellaneous photos that I had collected over the past week.