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Happy Independence Day!

We hope that you and your family can get together and have some fun this weekend. I’ve taken a little time off work and we are doing some exploring. Yesterday it was Yang Ming Shan - today it was Neidong National Forest. I’ve put a few of the pictures from today up on Flicker. Tomorrow [...]

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All Subways Should be Like Taipei’s Marvel of Mass Transit | from Wired.com

I had just thought that it was because I was a country bumpkin moved to the BIG city. Since moving here years ago we’ve really been impressed with Taipei’s subway system. What the linked article fails to mention, which just sweetens the deal, is the bus system that connects to the subway. All in [...]

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Happy Chinese New Year (again)

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Fran is hamming it up in a mall in Bangkok; wishing you all a happy CNY!

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Happy New Year

We weren’t really able to post on the first day of the new lunar year so this will have to do. We want to wish everyone a happy, healthy, safe, and prosperous “Year of the Rat”.

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How’s the weather?

I don’t know about where you are, but here it is really warm (and fairly humid). Sorry for the lack of entries lately but we’ve been preparing for the really big show. We are here and things are under way. It is very busy but also rewarding. More later . . .

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Home Again

Fran and I just returned from a week in Hong Kong. While there we worked with a group of 90 volunteers from all across the south. They had just finished spending a week or so “inside” telling others all about the reason for the season. We were there to help with the logistics of a [...]

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Play Day

Fran and I took a day to play on Saturday and we’re glad we did because a cold front blew in today + we had a really good time. It was lots of fun; even if we were a bit sore this morning.
I was up early as usual for a Saturday because of BSF leaders’ [...]

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