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A Buddhist Temple in Ilan, Taiwan

Here is downtown Ilan during the Chinese New Year.

The dream of many Taiwanese, here are luziry homes situated in the middle of farmers' rice fields. They are away from the pollution and noise of the city, but when the rice fields are full of water, the mosquitos are crazy.

Here is a park in Ilan. I am wearing my woolly sweater from Nepal.

A countryside road.

Here is a Chinese Budhist cemetary.,

This shot is great. Here is a typical Taiwan scooter. Not until the very end of my ownership did someone point out how unfashionable my bike was. In the back is a tractor in a rice field in the Spring.

Here is a park near Ilan.

This is a picture outside Ilan's train station during the 2003 Year of the Ram Chinese New Year Festival.

This is turtle island near Ilan.

Around Ilan. If you want to teach ESL in Taiwan, I would recommend the East or South East coast.

I loved how narrow some of the streets were.

Watching the rice shoots come out was deliciously entertaining.

a kindergarden in Lowdung.

Here are the kindergarden kids I taught.

My first apartment in Ilan. It was the bushiban where I worked. Here is the balconey I cleaned but hardly ever used.

I have no idea why this man is burning garbage in my school's parking.

lovely vegetable plots by the river that runs by my bushiban

Taiwan vegetable plots

Taipei Main Train Station

I went to Beastie Boy's Summer, 2003 Free Tibet concert in Taipei.

View from a foreign couple's apartment in Hualian, Taiwan, and a party in 2003.

This third pic shows the inner courtyard of one of the apartments I moved to in Taiwan.

Here is one apartment I lived in, in Ilan. This was all Lisa's furniture.

This is Taiwan during SARS. The secretary of my ESL academy is cheking the temperatures of all the students to ensure that none of them have a fever. I had my temperature checked too, everyday. The best part of SARS was that the students washed their hands everyday before they came into the building.

Here is a watermelon truck.

Here is a statue of Chiang Kai Shek in central Taipei.

This is a replica of Sun Yat-sen's mausoleum that my my brother, future sister-in-law, and David Burgess near Nanjing

A nice bridge in Taipei

Scary Looking South East Asian sunbears in Taipei zoo.

A tiger in the Taipei zoo.

The heavens above Taiwan