April Travels

Greetings from Taiwan! This picture was taken in 大溪 (Dashi Township) in Taoyuan county on April 28th, 2012.

Prior to that, we spent the first week of April back down south, including in Savannah Georgia where we attended the wedding of Eddie and Claire Konishi and had a blast reuniting with some of my ol' Cleveland and American Greetings pals. It was my first time being back down in Florida and Georgia since moving up to New England. The biggest difference I noticed? The speed of the pace of life.

On Display at the Taipei MRT

Currently on display in the MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) system in Taipei, Taiwan is my "Subway Phone Courtesy" poster (see a few posts below for the poster image.) It is on display with the other winners of the 2010 poster contest at the underground Zhongxiao Fuxing station on the blue line near the center of the city. I like to think it is doing it's part to remind everyone about train etiquette, for my goal was to do an image that could be universally understood by anyone of any age and nationality without relying on Chinese text to get the message across.

More photos to come later hopefully...

Chen Shui-Bian Arrested Sketch

I know this story is a couple weeks old already, but give a hand to Taiwan's former president Chen Shui-Bian for knowing how to turn a public arrest into an iconic pose for the media.