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Biking Taiwan: Taoyuan and Hsinchu Coast

by Michael Cannon on July 21, 2010 in Biking

Seems that sometimes, you get really restless. So restless that you can’t quite sleep. Last Saturday was one of those days. I took off around 8 PM for a night ride with touring kit and was aimless till I decided that I wanted to ride the west coast down for 50 kilometers. Then I’d find [...]

Tagged as: Asia, beach, Biking, coast, hot, Hsinchu-新竹, Linkou-林口, sunny, Taiwan, Taoyuan-桃園, windy

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Biking Taiwan: Ride over Shiping-汐平 Road

by Michael Cannon on July 8, 2010 in Biking

Wednesday morning I awoke at 5 AM to finish getting ready for a ride down 106 over to Jingtong. Jingtong is near Pingshi with the lantern festival around Chinese New Year. I met up with a local group of weekend workers who enjoy getting together for much lolly gagging and photo taking on their mid-week [...]

Tagged as: Asia, Biking, Guandu-關渡, hot, Pingshi-平溪, Taiwan, 北31

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Life in Taiwan: Week of June 28, 2010

by Michael Cannon on July 7, 2010 in Miscellanious,Photos

As the weather heats up, the bugs are back. This time coming from within the furniture. You just gotta love cheap wood and the resulting excitement. Due to a potential job interview, I might have a Life in New Delhi set of photos soon. I’ll write more as the details allow. Life in Taiwan: Week [...]

Tagged as: Asia, Biking, bugs, Linkou, Taiwan

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Biking Taiwan: Climbing Taipingshan-太平山

by Michael Cannon on June 10, 2010 in Biking

I rode another 150 kilometers or so Wednesday to Taipingshan-太平山 in Yilan-宜蘭 with 20 locals. The day started out quite early at 4 AM for a 5:30 AM Banciao train station start, followed by a 2 and a half hour local train ride to Luodong-羅東. After Luodong-羅東 and down the road, it seemed we stopped [...]

Tagged as: Asia, Biking, Luodong-羅東, Taipingshan-太平山, Taiwan, Yilan-宜蘭

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Biking Taiwan – A Puli-埔里 Century

by Michael Cannon on June 7, 2010 in Biking

Sunday morning found me and Michael Turton biking over to Dongshan-東山 to meet up with Drew, Darren, Patrick and Philippe for an easy century. Century as in 100 miles of biking back roads and mountain passes through more than 7,000 feet of vertical climbing. Ah… a lovely day indeed. Drew has a write up and [...]

Tagged as: Asia, Biking, century, Drew, Patrick, Philippe, Taichung-台中, Taiwan

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