http://howheels.org Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:37:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 745574597462746574687471 Perfect day in Anza http://howheels.org/archives/205 26512655 At the museum of ceramics in Taipei, we saw the "World's largest vetrified [sic] grinding wheel." 26582661 Pimped out Doraemon mobile (Xiao Ding Dong) 26822685 Preparing a Yilan delacacy by pulling sugar.  Can't remember what these things are called, but it's basically a burrito with tasty fillings like sugarcane or ice cream. 268826912694 Super packed street ... http://howheels.org/archives/202 2502251125142517 The last few days in Taipei have mostly been spent recovering from the Kaoliang incident. I've been slowly working my way up to solid foods again, however I am certainly no where near fully recovered. 2523252624602451  At some point Jason and I found ourselves in a Taipei pool hall, and eventually a ... http://howheels.org/archives/200   [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="350" caption="Bristol Stool Scale"][/caption] http://howheels.org/archives/198 2115211921252128213121342143 We arrived in Kenting for 2 nights, and started our first day checking out some of the awesome shoreline. We walked on a beachwalk that took us past the "kissing rock" and ended up through an area full of butterflies. Kenting is tourist-trap central. The entire city consists of one tiny ... http://howheels.org/archives/196 2032203620422045 Today was super low-key and very relaxed.  I greeted the day with a breakfast hambauwow in Taiting. Soon after we waited for the always-late Taitung bus to take us to the train station. I caught up on some desperately needed Z's, and woke up @ the train station just outside ... http://howheels.org/archives/192 187218751881 Taitung is a super cool little city. The smell of sulfer is all over the place, from the natural hot springs. Even our hostel had its hot water pumped in from them, giving us an ... interesting ... smell after our showers. Although it does feel very good to have ... http://howheels.org/archives/189 1567157115741580 We left Taipei via High Speed Rail to head to Hualien, approximately 100 miles south of Taipei. Public transit in Taipei seriously rocks. I snoozed just about the entire trip down, however it quickly became obvious to me that Taiwan has much much more to offer than the extremely crowded ... http://howheels.org/archives/185 1397140414161419 Day 3 in Taipei would be our final day before headed south into Hualien. We started the day off right with some boba (I opted for the milk green tea with tina boba pearls), and I had a killer taro bun w/ fried egg (yutou mantou jia dan).  Grand total ... http://howheels.org/archives/183 1203122512371252127312911312133013661390 MOAR PHOTOS! http://howheels.org/archives/181