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  • 5 Tips to Get Around Taipei

    5 Tips to Get Around Taipei

    5 Things to Know About Getting Around Taipei – It is SO easy to get around! ..once you take a few steps to get going. Here are a few tips I learned from my trip there.

  • Pro-Tip Tuesday: Alt Uses for a Water Bottle While on the Road 2

    Pro-Tip Tuesday:
    Alt Uses for a Water Bottle While on the Road 2

    Here’s one from my significant other’s mountaineering class. I froze my ass off camping in in Bryce Canyon so you don’t have to. While camping, you can fill a large nalgene (or other water) bottle with hot water before bed, and put it in your sleeping bag for extra warmth all night! If you find the…

  • Kaohsiung, Taiwan in the Morning

    Hi Folks, I’m in Taiwan* for QingMing Jie. Lots of over-deep thoughts to organize, food eaten, and photos to sort out. In the mean time, this video clip for you: If you have any questions on what it’s like here, let me know this week and I’ll try to find out! *where my mother grew…

  • How to Time Travel Tips on Extending Your Vacation Time & Space

    How to Time Travel
    Tips on Extending Your Vacation Time & Space

    Alaska’s official state motto is “North to the Future,” meant to represent Alaska as a land of promise. In the spirit of time travel,* here are some tips on how to stretch your vacation outside the bounds of the time you were physically there, with my Alaskan Adventures for illustration.

  • Snowshoeing & Other Winter Fun in Denali National Park Alaskan Adventures Part 1

    Snowshoeing & Other Winter Fun
    in Denali National Park
    Alaskan Adventures Part 1

    As I mentioned in part 0 of Alaska adventures, I flew in to Fairbanks around midnight. I got to sleep in the delightfully welcoming cabin (this one booked via VRBO) by about 3am, and yeah, it was in a city called North Pole. (!)* I loved staying at this cabin, and found the hosts helpful and responsive. This post may…

  • Pro-Tip Tuesday: Messaging your ‘Mate on a Plane

    Pro-Tip Tuesday: Messaging your ‘Mate on a Plane

    This one’s going to have terrible photos, people. Also, it’s random. What? You got a video yesterday.. If you’ve ever had the privilege to take a plane ride, but the simultaneous misfortune of being seated separately –or maybe coincidentally bumped into your friend you haven’t seen in for_ever on a plane– AND you have bluetooth…

  • Video Post: the World is Your Oyster! Just Try One…

    Video Post: the World is Your Oyster!
    Just Try One…

    The last stop coming back south from Bellingham was at Taylor Shellfish Farm. I was not fond of seafood as a kid, and growing up in the Land of 10,000 Lakes and no saltwater, who could blame me for only eating the fresh sunnies and walleye my parents would catch on a day off?

  • Pro-Tip Tuesday: Pouring without Spilling

    Are you a klutz like me, always spilling liquids when you pour them from one container to another? Try this trick I learned from my father, the chemist! I like to imagine him pouring oodles of liquids from beaker to beaker in his multiple decades of work. Hint: having a utensil helps. In summary, if…

  • The Easy Sauce You Can Bank, to Up Your Spontaneous Grill Game This Summer – Chimichurri

    You guys, I have a confession: I hate cilantro.* I used to think I hate parsley, but in the last five years its resemblance to the flavor of cilantro has faded. Then, I had the privilege to vacation in Chile last year, and there was this sauce that kept appearing at restaurants with the steak.…

  • Seoul Revisited – Guest Blog from K on Chizza

    On Jan 28, 2016, at 7:51 AM, Kristoffer Jonson (email redacted) wrote: My 2pm KFC excursion ended up being my lunch and dinner. Chizza brought me there but there was so much to experience. Apparently it was a great time to come to Seoul because they are discontinuing the Chizza. It was 38% off but…