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Wind Warriors of the Pescadores

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Windsurfing competition in Penghu, Taiwan

On the subject of windsurfing in Taiwan, one of the strangest years of a life with no shortage of strange years was spent living on an archipelago called Penghu, halfway between Taiwan and China. It’s a remote, beautiful and extremely…

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I Get Interesting Gigs (Follow Alana)

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Josambro and Alana 3

I get interesting gigs here in Taiwan, and since I already can tell this is going to be a series I’ve decided to go with the format “I Get Interesting Gigs” (Name of Gig in ellipses, in this case Follow…

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Alpacas and Kitties and Coffee (Oh My)

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Alpaca Cafe Taiwan 2

Taiwan’s Alpaca Cafe was someplace we’d been meaning to visit for almost a year but hadn’t made it to for a variety of strange reasons. We’d heard about it last year, a large cafe and restaurant in Sanzhi, a town…

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Taiwan Fight Club

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MMA Fighting in Taiwan

“Calling into the ring…Joshua!” It’s a hot August night in Taipei, and I am about to be beaten up in public. Standing across the ring  (if you can call a cement square taped on a cement barroom floor a ring) stands…

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Does Humor Belong in Diplomacy?

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Funny Times Banner

Humor is a tricky thing to translate, which is a pity since humor is also such a good icebreaker. Last week I gave a talk on promoting tourism in Yunlin (an agricultural county in Taiwan), and while they didn’t bring…

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Taiwan’s Diplomatic Allies

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Metal Politics Taiwan

Taiwan’s diplomatic allies have been much on my mind lately, not so much on a national level like will Honduras be the next to flip but more along the lines of elements within the American government coming out on Twitter to support Taiwan,…

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The Four Stages of Life (as experienced through Taiwanese cuisine)

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The four stages of life as experienced through Taiwan food

SEO-destroying, algorithm-annoying preamble: A lot of my stories have stories of their own. This one about Taiwanese Cuisine (chew on that, WordPress SEO monitor) has two or three, so…read on or not. One of the pleasures of establishing a long-term working relationship…

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Eight Hour Taipei Layover, Midnight Special

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Eight hours in Taipei map

I used to write a lot of articles on the theme of short layovers around Asia. “Seven hours in Seoul,”  “A Day, a Night and Some Petty Larceny in Okinawa,” that sort of thing. When I was younger, I did…

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Grace versus brute force: Mixed Martial Arts in Taiwan

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MMA in Taiwan

It’s five in the afternoon at Hsinchu’s Municipal Stadium, inside of which a crowd of about twelve hundred have gathered, their vibe rowdy, but polite. Welcome to the world of Mixed Martial Arts in Taiwan. Heavy Metal music blares over…

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How Not to Avoid Jet Lag

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How Not to Avoid Jet Lag

Nineteen tales ranging from new journalism to exotic hallucination. Click here for the Kindle Version (Amazon) Click Here for all other E-book formats. (Smashwords) How Not to Avoid Jet Lag Nineteen stories from the increasingly deranged mind of travel Writer Joshua Samuel Brown,…

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