The Final, Final Post

 I am back in Taiwan, and I have started a new blog: The Taiwan Adventure 2: The Triumphal Return!

An excerpt from the first post:

As you may or may not know, I have been living in Tucson, Arizona for the last four years.  I like Arizona.  The only problem with Tucson is that it’s right in the middle of the Sonoran Desert. It’s really hot in the summer and so dry that my skin kept cracking and falling off.  You have to buy moisturizer in 55-gallon drums, or settle for clouds of skins cells surrounding you every time you move around. 

Taoyuan is nice and humid.  A hot day is like walking around in a sauna.  Tucson is dry, a hot day there is like being slowly roasted in an oven.  I don’t know, it seems like people complain about the weather either way. 

Desert Cottontail

The desert is beautiful, though, especially the Sonoran Desert.  There’s Saguaro cactuses, (they only grow in Arizona) and a variety of wildlife. Birds, rabbits, lizards, snakes, coyotes, bobcats and javelinas.  Javelinas look like pigs, but they’re actually peccaries.

"Peccary

A peccary is a medium-sized animal, with a strong resemblance to a pig. Like a pig, it has a snout ending in a cartilaginous disc and eyes that are small relative to its head. Also like a pig."  -Wikipedia

A pig by any other name is a…Peccary, I guess. 

 They eat plants but have razor sharp tusks, so you probably don’t want to fight one.

Anyway, for what it’s worth I have returned to Taiwan. I’m glad to be back, I missed it while I was in Arizona. I’ve eaten all the Mexican Food I needed to last a while. Now, I’m looking forward to classic Taiwanese fare. I’m especially looking forward to street food, which I’m sure I will consume with great gusto, along with the other things that make Taiwan great.

I want to talk a bit about this version of the Taiwan Adventure. It’s going to be the same only different. Hopefully, I’ll still be able to bring a bit of humor to my observations, but I want to focus a bit more on photos and a bit more on wildlife, (okay, I really mean birds, unless something really cool happens to wander up and get in front of my camera.) and tea. By the way, I will add some video blogs with Shabai/Elizabeth. I might even make some of my own, (We’ll see!)

I will try to add something every week starting today. Please feel free to comment, in fact I hope you will, and subscribe! Here We Go!