2 years ago was my first trip to Taiwan, I have thousands of pictures and managed to keep a journal of the trip but never pulled anything together with it. I shared a few pics last trip but nothing that really captured the experience. This time I will attempt to do better.
Travel day is 3 flights roughly 18 hours of flying time to get from KC to Dallas to LA to Taipei then a 30 minute trip by car to Hsinchu. The long flight from LA to Taipei was on Eva Air and they are pretty awesome to fly on, at least in the elite class which is the equivalent of 1st class/business class here in the states, lots of leg room and good meals for a flight with free drinks of all kinds.
Most of the entries will be pictures, click to enlarge
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| MCI - early flight to Dallas on American, no issue with the flight |
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| cloudy but a pretty smooth flight |
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| Dallas sky rail |
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| it always amazes me how it can be so hard to put bags up and sit down |
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| Dallas flight to LA |
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| the Rockies |
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| coming into LA |
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| LA international |
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| Eva is a great airline to fly on |
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| it was pretty amazing to watch the logistics loading this flight |
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| big planes |
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| wouldn't it be great to just come here and pick where you wanted to go, just pick and go |
Walking around the entire LA International terminal was like a walk around the world with people from every corner, I think I could have spent most the day just people watching.
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| 14 hours later we are almost there, um not to scale! |
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| saw several folks get stopped and screened, including Chia-Ru! |
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| getting money is pretty important, more so than getting through customs |
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| visa time - thankfully this line moved pretty quick |
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| 11:30pm and bustling |
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| first thing Chia-Ru's mom has out for me, banana off the tree in back! |
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| I ate them all but one, and several what we would call grapefruit, but really sweet |
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| went for a walk at 12:30am, tea eggs at every corner store |
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| this dog was just hanging out in the middle of the street |
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| one of many waterways |
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| night cap before bed, 1am and this place had a steady flow of cusotmers |
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| fresh |
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| tofu, seaweed and onion sort of things, all yummy, less than $3 US dollars |
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