We are about to leave the second country on our Round the World journey. We have spent a few days in Hong Kong exploring the city, and then several days in Taiwan, mainly around the Hualien area. Tomorrow, we're on to Japan.

I've started a journal on my website here:

http://www.machka.net/RTW_2012/RTW_2012.htm


And I am posting photos on my Flickr site here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/machka-bb/sets/

I have started loading photos into the Asia set because that's where we are right now.


Around the Hualien area (east coast of Taiwan) we opted to do a hub-and-spoke tour and explored enough to be thinking about coming back here to explore more. But that's part of the point of this tour. We're looking at it as a kind of "sample platter" ... a little bit of this and a little bit of that, and if we really like something we'll plan to return and see more.