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Tony8

Chewing the Fat With Hecktic Travels

It’s another installment of Chewing the Fat, and this week we’re lucky to have snagged some table time with the power blogging couple behind Hecktic Travels! Dalene and Pete Heck have been traveling all over the world non-stop since 2009. They gave up their corporate lifestyle in exchange for...
Chewing the Fat
Steph30

One Year Later

One year ago, we followed our bliss and a one-way ticket to the other side of the planet. We landed in Tokyo, Japan with about 95% of our worldly possessions strapped to our back, and little else other than a bank account flush from years of hard saving and...
Musings
Steph36

Putting the “Gorge” in “Gorgeous” at Taroko Gorge

When it comes to the rain, there is no escaping it. Nearly every day since landing in Taiwan, rain has been dogging our every step. Fleeing as far south as Tainan bought us a brief reprieve, but now that we’re back up in the north, the miserable, cold drizzle...
AdventuresTaiwan
Steph7

Chewing the Fat with Sarah Somewhere!

It's another installment of Chewing the Fat, and this week we're so happy to be doing so with the delightful Sarah of Sarah Somewhere! Sarah was a flight attendant for a major Australian airline for eleven years before deciding to quit her job and travel the world with no...
Chewing the FatFood
Steph18

What We Ate: Tainan

I have a sneaking suspicion that if I asked you to tell me the first food that you think of when you envision Asia, I would be hearing an awful lot of “noodles” and “rice”, maybe some “fish” and “curry” as well. But, I’ve got to tell you that...
FoodTaiwan
Steph11

The Beauty of Getting Lost in Tainan

Sure, the folks on the tourism board for the city have done their best to help visitors out with a few dedicated bus lines that will carry you around from one main attraction to the next, but where’s the fun in that? Even if you don’t love getting lost,...
Taiwan
Tony23

The Ultimate Taiwan Bubble Tea Challenge

Six years ago at the tender age 24, I took my first trip out of the United States. Granted, it was only a trip up to Steph’s hometown of Toronto, Canada, but it was my first stamp in my first passport. Turns out, it was a trip of many...
FoodTaiwan
Steph24

Zen and the Art of Photography

My senior year of high school, one of the art teachers offered an Introduction to Photography course. Due to my already-on-record overachieving, I had completed most of the courses that I needed to apply for university and was scrambling to find enough courses so I could take the requisite...
MusingsPhotographyTaiwan
Steph9

Chewing the Fat with Battered Suitcases

This week on Chewing the Fat, I am utterly elated to welcome the lovely lady behind Battered Suitcases, Jill Cox! Jill is a twenty-something primary school teacher who worked for several years in the Middle East before taking a year to simply enjoy life and travel through Australia....
Chewing the Fat
Steph13

We Visted Tainan And Its Temples Made Our Heads Explode

If I had to describe the temples of Taiwan in one word, that word would be “sensory”. The kaleidoscope of color, paintings and carvings, the hazy plumes of fragrant incense offerings, the clattering of fortune sticks tossed repeatedly by those souls seeking guidance from the gods offered as counterpoint...
Taiwan
Steph29

Awestruck in Alishan

It never fails to amaze me how the act of travel can so dramatically reshape the framework of your entire world, so quickly and so decisively. We loved every second of our time in Taipei, invigorated by the urban environment and the bustle of busy people living their busy lives,...
AdventuresTaiwan
Tony2

Sunday Sketchup: Stuck in Pai

It’s Sunday Sketchup time! Every Sunday I plan on putting up something I’ve drawn, in one form or another, on the blog. The content will be whatever has moved me during the previous week, and this may not always be travel-related.
Sunday Sketch
Steph19

In Beitou, Some Like It Hot

If I have one piece of advice for you when visiting Taiwan it’s this: don’t drink the tap water. Having spent months in Asia, Tony & I have become accustomed to giving water that doesn’t come out of a bottle wide berth. Yes, we purchased and packed a steripen, but...
Taiwan
Steph18

What We Ate: Taipei (Non-Nightmarket Edition)

To absolutely no one’s surprise, food was the primary motivating factor behind our unanticipated jaunt to Taiwan. Upon our arrival, we set out to conquer as much of Taipei's food scene with our mission simply being "eat all the things”. Given the crazy amount of food that we...
FoodTaiwan
Tony5

Sunday Sketchup: Sketches for a Reader

It’s Sunday Sketchup time! Every Sunday I plan on putting up something I’ve drawn, in one form or another, on the blog. The content will be whatever has moved me during the previous week, and this may not always be travel-related.
Sunday Sketch