Sooooo….Tina and I were in Taiwan with her family. That was nice, going to eat, them taking us to temples, beer houses for gambei/campai/bottoms up, relearning chinese chess (thank you ten years ago alex) and playing with her uncles and cousin, it’s a lot like international chess but the pieces and board and rules are different, same kind of thinking though. Then it was down to Dulan bay to stay with tina’s uncle sam’s friend, ride around on his four wheelers, get really sunburned, the best was riding them on the beach and doing doughnuts and stuff. Eating mangos and humbaos/baotses and papaya and things. Back to Taichung with her family for another week or something, staying in their old apartment and getting cheapo delicious breakfast from the local place, always local places, try and avoid chains and names of stores I recognize, although 7-11 is everywhere like starbucks in seattle and good for water.
Now we’re down in borocay, tropical beach land where the water is cool enough to be refreshing and warm enough to be in all day if you want. We’re at a place called Roy’s somethingorother and it’s nice 500 pesos a night exchange rate is 43/1usd and good food and stuff. Okay more later, just relaxing and making plans to make a hammock out of our bedsheets 🙂