Saturday, 3 November 2018 My friend Wayne says that the best way to know a city is to walk it. That works for me, but this morning I thought perhaps I might have to take a bus at one point and I should put Google maps on my new iPad. It seemed a good idea and simple...
Friday. 2 November 2018 Rooming in Jongno-gu of Seoul, the area where the Korean Royal Palaces are located, allows me to walk to many of these historic sites. Here and there remains a patch of road constructed of very old and difficult-to-walk-on stones, as well as...
Thursday, 1 November 2018 Perhaps the shame of Teddy’s Roosevelt’s handover of Korea to Japan in 1905, for which ironically he received the Nobel Peace Prize, can be somewhat expiated by the great contribution of the American Christian missionaries, who were active in...
Wednesday 31 October 2018 Wandering in Seoul It is a great day to wander around Seoul, cool but not cold, an autumn day with bright blue skies. This area is of Gyeongbokgung is the heart of commercial Seoul, government and corporate centers located here in their...
Monday 29 October 2018 Monday or maybe Tuesday Have we crossed the date line? I do not recommend taking a 5am flight to Korea or a 5am flight to anywhere. It means waking up at 2am to be at the airport at 3am, the required two hours before departure time....
Sunday 28 October 2018 Preparing for Korea In Ashland, Oregon This begins the account of my upcoming ten days in Korea during November 2018. Why would I want to leave Ashland at this beautiful time the year? The fall colors have never been more beautiful, and when I...
21 January 2017 Saturday Goodbye to Asia and Banyan trees with their sprawling roots. and packed my Wax Apples for the airplane ride. Too bad we cannot find Wax Apples in the States. Taipei Airport is very new and very nice, the New Year decorative display had one of...
19 January 2017 Thursday Palace Museum Taipei , Taiwan Today, we took the obligatory sightseeing trip to the Palace Museum. We set out on foot on the main north-south artery of Taipei, Zhongshan Road, the street on which Chiang Kai -Shek (蔣中正, 蔣介石) lived and the...
18 January 2017 Wednesday Taipei, Taiwan Today, on the way to the street market, we passed a restaurant with a Polynesian-Aboriginal theme. So busy looking at the curious carved wooden statues, we forgot to check the menu. We also passed the house in which Loretta...
20 January 2017 Friday Taipei 101 Loretta and Harold have been giving me a crash course in Chinese language, culture, and history. I was taken to the Sun Yat Sen memorial, an enormous and imposing building (with a row of magenta flowers...
