this bird is getting its butt poked :)
this bird is getting its butt poked :)
for all your automotive needs, mancave autowerks :)
we got down in the bowels of the ship
burners were diesel is injected via nozzles and burnt to create steam pressure
driving a cab is less boring if you can watch TV at the same time
hello kitty air terminal, cute :)
hiking is boring, how's facebook doing?
those selfie poles were everywhere. People were filming themselves walking a hiking trail with that. Lame...
In Paris, it's a bunny that gets its hands caught :)
Argh, less fun, this tells you that it's safe for ladies to use the bathrooms, they were checked for voyeur cameras :(
Vote for the winning team, vote #10!
7 different voting signs in this intersection
I did reasonably well with my wild pig
Jennifer's pig survived happily, but the nearby deer had a scare :)
OMG, that's a lot of koi fish, they looked hungy :)
getting our car back from the elevator to head out
there isn't much left of the fort, a few stones and cannons
by the time we got there, the weather had turned to fantastic :)
thankfully the shopping street was covered
traces of gold on top of the sand, due to gravity
the mercury/gold mix is heated up and the mercury condensed back in water to be reused
the tunnel was very wet and growing all kinds of fungus
at least the view from up there wasn't bad since the rain had subsided
Map of the area in French for when the French wanted to take over
a canadian imigrant who built schools and spread knowledge
I'm not sure I'd bring my bride at this rotten egg stinky place :)
people could also get a free foot bath in the river
and after 50 years, they still have much supply of material
this piece of shell metal is turned into a crude knife first, and then into a nice one
resupply barges looked like this
thankfully we got in before the line got crazy long
nice view from the top of Taipei 101
Yeah, halloween made it to Taiwan too somehow :)
the lovely chinese come there with huge boats to illegally take all the sand
more long underground tunnels to avoid artillery
to allow safer resupply, they built many tunnels and used amphibious vehicles to hide in the rocks to unload supplies
this is what the Chinese did to anything reachable above ground
they had huge loudspeakers to disuade the chinese from further attacks against mostly their own
the chinese shot so many shells at the ROC that the locals started making knifes with the metal
the people and building casulaties were heavy though
Lieyu is the small island on the left
this is how close the 2 islands are from China
our electric scooter looked like this
you could swim to China if you really wanted
the chocolate bird as Jennifer calls it :) (michoko)
this tunnel didn't look like it was fun to drill mostly by hand
the aquarium used to have a whale shark, but released it because their tank was too small and it was deemed inhumane
good breakfast makes for a happy Jennifer, even had steamed buns :)
what it used to look like, obvious Dutch looking houses inside a fort, cute :)
this kid had to give some of his candy to each idol
pig hearts, chicken, yummy looking shrimp, and more
some shrines had idols you made offerings to for love
big wishes cost more money to burn :)
I should get into the paper selling business, it's good money :)
I just need to undercut the existing wishing paper money sellers ;)
did I say that big wishes cost more wishing money? :)
big furnace to burn your wish money
not much left of the original fort