Lives in the Lotus Blossom, Chapter 01: Pedal and Sole, Booted off the Blood Bus
August 25th 2007 This is a brief report, about renting bicycles at Seven Star Lake (Qi Xing Tan) Beach, and a morning walk in a gathering thunderstorm. This chapter is mostly pictures (as you can see). For new readers, just click on the first picture to enlarge it, then you can go through the slide show by clicking on the next number above each picture.
Later in the day, I noticed that the blood donation bus
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In 1895, military defeat forced China to cede Taiwan to Japan. Taiwan reverted to Chinese control after World War II. Following the Communist victory on the mainland in 1949, 2 million Nationalists fled to Taiwan and established a government using th... ... read more 
