I went bicycle shopping recently and picked up a Merida MTA-510 for my daily ride from Jhongsing Village to my job in Caotun [about twenty minutes one-way]. I checked out a Merida dealership and a Giant dealership during my search. The Giant dealership didn’t sell a single similarly priced bike with 19 inch wheels, so the choice was pretty simple.
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I dare my readers to find a street more decked out in potted plants than Guanghua #2 Rd. #2 Street [光華二路二街 ] in Nantou County’s Jhongsing Village [中興新村].
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Jhongsing Village [中興新村] is a pleasure to walk around given its meticulously planned development, tree-lined roads, even sidewalks, and low population density. Over the weekend we visited the neighborhood housing artists participating in the Jhongsing Resident Artist Program [中興新村駐村藝術家] on Guanghua #3 Road [光華三路].
Last weekend when I came here most of the lotus flowers that already bloomed had already lost all their pedals due to a week of rain. This weekend luckily wasn’t accompanied by rain, so my trip to the Jhongsing Village Gate Lotus Pond was much more enjoyable.
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Over the weekend I was introduced to a small unmarked trail on Huan Mountain [環山] Deng Mountain [登山] by Cathy’s mother. It’s located right behind her workplace in Jhongsing Village [中興新村], Nantou County [南投縣].
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After work on Saturday Cathy and I took a trip to Jhongsing Village, Nantou by bus to visit her family. On Sunday, we started the day by going to a traditional market:
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In honor of leaving for Taiwan in 15 days… I thought I would post pics from my trip to Hong Kong and Taiwan from the Summer of 2004. The first stop on this trip was Hong Kong… to call the place hot in June would be an understatement… but there was a lot of stuff to do at least:
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