Last weekend went to Juwei, Taiwan. A small fishing port. Had some fresh salmon sashimi...mmm and waited for the sunset .

There I was a little bored puttering along on my rental scooter in Kending. I decided to take a small road that lead to another one that I turned off into another one then into a farmers field, then chased out by charging cows...well they had horns and looked mad, so I turned around.

Continued along the road and stopped near the top of a hill and saw this old house. I thought about something my mother once told me. She said she often looks at old houses and farmyards thinking about what life was like for these people, who were they what did they do.
Well this house didn't look like anything special but what you can't see, is on the other side of this house is a deep valley leading down to the ocean. This is a great location for a house. It really seems a shame that this family has left it. What potential!

Peaceful, clean breezy air rushing off the ocean, a view to die for and even if you dont want to live there (not sure who that would be) but with the tourist potential it would be a gold mine.

Keelung, Taiwan

I was playing with licorice the other day...here are a few results.

Here is a shot of Henchuan South Gate to the city. Now we just drive around it but previousily it would have been one of four guarded gates to the city.




Here is a shot from above at the Geothermal Power Plant near Kending in Taiwan. The big curvy thing is a solar panel display, and 3 wind turbines in the background.

The sign below is either about a new restaurant that may not have passed a health inspection or perhaps something about local 'ladies of the night'.
Here are a couple of quick pics of my very simple and cheap hotel room. Nothing fancy, but the price was right and it was very clean and a comfortable bed.

The pruning techniques used in Taiwan are a little different than elsewhere.

This first one is yesterday....me at Kending southernmost tip of Taiwan.
These are the opposite. They are Keelung. The north cost of Taiwan, last weekend.
A few more of both places coming soon.

I went to Keelung in the northern coast of Taiwan. The ocean was beginning to rage, the clouds were swirling, the rocks taking the punishment that they have taken for years, incrementally changing, carving the landscape a little more, forever changed. Different today than yesterday.