Why this post has lots of pictures

In the interests of not incriminating anyone for anything, I am going to keep the summary of the Rotary "Round Taiwan Tour" very brief & basically just show you some pictures I enjoyed from the trip. And also some pictures I thought you might enjoy... some wouldn't be in my personal top ten. Back to the subject of not talking about stuff people do, let's just say I don't consider myself enough of a dumbass as to post things people don't want made public on a public forum such as the internet.

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This is the first picture in chronological order. As you can see it was hot & sunny, and there were girls on our trip. The girl with the hat is half American.

There was apparently a light house on the following island, but I couldn't find it. We saw a lighthouse later, but not only was it short & sucky, but the pictures I took of it were also sucky. Go island!

This is where a lot of people got their first sunburn of the trip if they hadn't already. I am sure parts of my neck/shoulders burned through my shirt.

At Kenting, our hotel was fucking awesome. It was literally 5 star & the one night alone cost 40% of the trip budget. They had real showers, just like in north america. I had 3 in an 18 hour period. Besides swimming at the tropical beach, eating flying fish prepared 6 different ways, and finally talking to Ada (from Texas), I also got to enjoy an indoor water park with slides & a wave pool. Wheeee!

No trip post would be complete without a picture of me with my shirt off... I finally figured out the time-delay shot too.

We went to a shitty hostel in Gaoxiong right after that, it was shitty & Rotary really started cracking down on people. Played some ok pool though... I need to work on my form though, a lot. Anyway, once we got to Alishan I was impressed by how the forest and stuff was all like on Van Isle. I didn't bother posting pics of the big trees because if you want you can go to Cathedral Grove & see better ones. In this picture I finally got depth of field working, plus the foggy trees in the background hint as to what all my other pics were like. Does having a close-up of a flower automatically make it art? :P

And then we got up disgustingly, stomach wrenchingly early to watch the sunrise. Right at money shot time, my stomach was actually cramping and I missed a few key seconds... I still took a lot of pictures, not all of which are shown here.

I especially liked this picture of the people watching the 'dazzling orange orb damaging your retinae' as I once described this early morning eye candy. I of course have multitudinous examples of sun-behind-stuff pictures; this was one that turned out.

Let's not forget a fun picture of Anna, who was so kind as to try on this excellent piece of headwear. I offered to buy it for her, but she didn't want it.

I also like taking picture of things in the morning light, but the sun is already a little high here. Still, not bad.


Anna came over to visit today for a while. She's fun. Her hair is black again. Scott & I played FAR too much computer. Tomorrow I am moving host families as is Greg. We'll see what the future has in store. This post took like two hours, internet is slow with 3 computers on it. hahahah. K out

edit: fixed crappy html making some pictures not show up. b'oh