Ina a ‘ohe nalu, a laila aku i kai, penei e hea ai / Ku mai! Ku mai! Ka nalu nui mai Kahiki mai! (If there is no surf, invoke sea work in the following manner arise, arise you great surfs from Kahiki) ~Ancient Hawaiian Surf Prayer Few indeed are the recreational activities with which our ado[...]
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A Year in the Isles of Wind (Part Three)
Our early days in late Autumn on Penghu were fine as we explored the beaches and temples. The weather was breezy, but nothing too extreme. But around Christmas the winds picked up, and by mid January they were up to what Penghu residents refer to as “normal speed.” At one point during the Luna[...]
A Year in the Isle of Winds (Part Two)
Situated in an extremely strategic point, roughly halfway between mainland China and Taiwan, Penghu has had the historical good (or bad, depending on your point of view) luck to lie at a nautical crossroads for merchants, militarists, and pirates plying the seas between Japan and Southeast Asia. F[...]
A Year on the Isles of Wind (Part One)
Not long into my wife’s one year contract at a small school here in Penghu we both realized we were desperate to leave. I know what you’re thinking: If this is a travel article, we’re off to a bad start. Travel articles are supposed to make readers want to visit the place being written[...]
May 1st, 2010 - 2:39 am § in Destinations, Taiwan
Taipei City Ghosts and Flowers
Some photos taken of, in , and around Taipei City[...]
