Taipei 101 - Taipei, Taiwan

Keelung to Taipei- Chemistry Class Coffee and 60 minute Dumplings

It was a sunny day in Keelung-- the first we had in Taiwan-- Typhoon Tamri, after all that suspense, left it's perch off North East Taiwan and headed towards Japan over night.  I was hoping it wouldn't cause any damage as it careened across Okinawa and Southern Japan and hoping our flight to Kansai International …

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National Palace Museum - Taipei, Taiwan

Taipei, Taiwan – Historical Site Homage and Jumping Puddles…

Our Second day in  Taipei was the day I put aside to see some of the important historical locations in Taipei-- monuments, museums and temples defining the birth of modern day Taiwan. In the mid-1990's I graduated from the University of Victoria with a double major in Japanese and English, and a minor in Pacific …

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