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Hi internet friends, Time for my July update, and a note about the future of these updates. Meta-commentary about this updateFirst, to make this update make a bit more sense, a bit more context: In July we continued what we had been doing, which was cycling up the west coast of Sumatra. If you're...
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Hi internet friends, Time for my June update. After Taiwan, Bell and I flew to Indonesia. We decided to go here, well I decided to take us here, mainly because I didn't know anything about Indonesia. And that seemed a bit odd, given that it's a big country of 280 million people. More...
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Caption: Art postcard in a very cool shop on Jieyue Street, Hualien. Greetings from Indonesia. I’m popping in on this late July Monday to share a page I wrote about May, cycling up the east coast of Taiwan. Looking back, May was different trips in one month: Bell and I continued our ride around...
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The list of people I want to send postcards to doesn't get shorter. It's a list of old connections and new ones. But today I wrote one, to Taihe School, in a village up in the hills of central Taiwan where oolong tea grows, where the steep roads are in poor condition by the country's high...
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Bell and I spent March first in Kerala (a state in southwest India), then flew to Taiwan. From Taipei in the northwest, we got started cycling on a counterclockwise circumambulation known as 環島 / Huándǎo ("journey around the island"). A page in a journal barely scratches the surface, especially...