I bicycle to work every morning, sometimes the chaos of traffic just gets to me. Usually I can bear it, but today, dodging cars, scooters, buses,taxis and old people on various slow speed motorized vehicles, was just more than I could handle. I couldn’t stop myself from thinking, you know people, in a normal civilized…
After losing my adventure-partner-exploration-mentor to a job in Taipei, I have been left in Taichung on my own devices. So I started small, this weekend seeking out two local trails in nearby Guguan. Guguan is a popular destination in central Taiwan in the winter months, primarily for its hot springs and high mountain tea. The…
It wasn’t until the end of the day on Monday, when I came home exhausted, that I realized, this isn’t the breezy “syllabus week” that I had in my head from university days. For teachers, syllabus week is essential. Being a middle school teacher is similar to what I’d imagine being a zookeeper is like.…
I was nervous to return home after being away for two years (not including two actual trips I made that combined were less than one weeks time) I was returning as a visitor, and subconsciously was not ready to face the prospect that I would potentially be a spectator in my own home. An outsider,…
After 5 days of syllabus week and being trapped in the city. I was dying to get outside, so when my colleague suggested we go to Shanlinxi Forest Park, I jumped at the chance. Shanlinxi is an easy day trip from Taichung, only 17 km north, an hour bus ride, from Xitou Forest Park. Xitou…
A week ago I was nominated for the Infinity Dreams Award by fellow blogger Mutsumi at Sakura Junction. Thank you so much to Mutsumi for the nomination and who has been following all my adventures in Japan! I blog, but I am not very social media savvy, so, I will do my best to understand. You…
In my home town there is a bridge over the creek that is kind of a right of passage when you jump off. The tradition had kind of faded out by the time I was a teen, but my mother always used it as a euphemism for doing something she thought was stupid, “If everyone…
Looking back on the things I was looking forward to about going home, I did do a lot of what I was missing. And even re-discovered some things that I had forgotten I missed. The Number One thing that was on my list was the people who I missed. I spent a great deal of…
A Conscious Venture 