A weekend in Alishan
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by Jamie
3y ago
living in the bustling city of Taipei, sometimes it's easy to forget that the majority of Taiwan's land mass is mostly uninhabited mountains and forests. but one of the best things about this island is that magical places like Alishan National Forest exist, only hours from the concrete and chaos. last summer we took a long weekend there with our friends, their one-year-old daughter, and their dog. Husband and I took the train down to meet them in Hsinchu, and we road tripped from there to Chiayi, and on to Alishan. Fenchihusince our friends needed a pet-friendly place to stay, we fou ..read more
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India and other stories
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by Jamie
3y ago
after a week of cold and rainy and grey weather best suited to curling up on the couch under a blanket, I'm happy to report that the sun has finally made an appearance again in Taipei. I just got back from a long walk and it felt a-ma-zing to have sun on my skin. they say March weather is in like a lion, out like a lamb but I've always found it to be all over the place from day to day, rather than a smooth progression. but I have been trying to get out more, even when the skies are grey. a friend of mine is in town and yesterday she suggested we hike Elephant Mountain -- despite t ..read more
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The magic of Mount Cook
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by Jamie
3y ago
it's no secret I love mountains. climbing them, taking photos of them, even just looking at them. maybe it was growing up in the flat midwest, but every time I look up and see mountains my heart just lifts. strange as it may seem, mountains are kindof my happy place. when I read Emma's prompt for this month's travel linkup -- a place that sparks joy -- my immediate thought was: New Zealand. I've been lucky enough to take two trips to this magical place. though many of the locations we've visited are dear to my heart, the time we spent at Mount Cook / Aoraki and it's surrounding area towers ..read more
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What I did on my summer vacation
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by Jamie
3y ago
almost every summer, it seems I take a [usually unintentional] break from blogging. being married to a teacher means that my life and my calendar revolve around the school year. we are lucky to have short breaks throughout the year, but summer is the time when we travel the most. and when I'm in Tokyo -- I'd rather spend my time exploring adorable alleys and stunning shrines than sitting in front of a computer screen. when I am with my family and friends -- I want to soak up every conversation, every glass of wine, every trip to the beach or board game or whatever activity we have planned ..read more
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Olympic National Park, WA // Lake Crescent and Marymere Falls
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by Jamie
3y ago
Lake Crescent and the hike to Marymere Falls was my first introduction to Olympic National Park, one of several stops we made during our Pacific Northwest road trip. Olympic National Park is huge. this is not a place you can explore in a day. in a month, or a year... maybe. the park covers the entire central area of the Olympic Peninsula, and creeps up Washington's western coast. we visited six different locations within the park on our trip, and still barely skirted the outside of it. the Storm King ranger station was still closed for the season, so when we arrived at La ..read more
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Thirty-three and six
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by Jamie
3y ago
my thirty-third birthday was a few weeks ago, which means a few days after that, this blog turned six. sharing a birthday/blogiversary post is kindof a tradition around here, and though I've been slow to get back in the swing of regular posting, I couldn't let the occasion drift by unmarked. so here are six facts about this blog, and thirty-three randoms bits about me: 1-- I came up with the name "ink and adventure" as we were driving back to Princeton from the job fair in Boston where Luke was first hired to teach in Taiwan. I actually launched with the name "hello, adventure" because I ..read more
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Taipei // Confucius and Bao An Temples
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by Jamie
3y ago
my very first day as an expat in Taiwan, I fell head over heels for the colorfully scaled and curly whiskered dragons that top the temples here. Taiwan has more temples per capita than any other country in the world. some are massive complexes attached to monestaries or built into mountainsides, and some are barely bigger than a phone booth. you'll find temples sandwiched between convenience stores and dumpling shops, hiding on hiking trails or down alleys only wide enough for a scooter. I've seen my fair share of temples, but with over 15,000 on the island... I've barely begun to scratch t ..read more
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A life update
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by Jamie
3y ago
I try to make it a policy not to apologize for a lack of posting, but woah. I haven't consistently blogged since last October. there are several good excuses reasons that I've been absent from pretty much everything [except instagram] but now that life has settled down a bit, I hope to get back to blogging. in true Jamie fashion, I'm going to start with a list-style post. here's a bit of a life update to catch you up on the last six months. I wrote a book.no really, I wrote a book! I completed NaNoWriMo -- that's writing 50,000 words of a novel during the month of Novmber -- and raised o ..read more
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Yangmingshan // hiking Mount Zhugao
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by Jamie
3y ago
I spent the month of November writing my face off [along with reaching my 50,000 word goal and raising over $250 for the Malala Fund] and did not get nearly enough time outdoors. so today, we're taking a trip to the mountains. Mount Zhugao is a short hike in Yangmingshan National Park, north of Taipei, that can be accessed from the "buffalo meadows" Qingtiangang Grasslands area. back in October, I met some of my Hsinchu friends on a sunny but windy day to make the climb. the trail to Mt Zhugao is a branch off the Qingtiangang circular trail. simply walk to the south across the flat ..read more
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Help me support the Malala Fund with #NaNoWriMo and #TheMightyPens
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by Jamie
3y ago
hi friends! today's post will be a little different, as I'm dedicating most of my time this month to my manuscript instead of travel blogging. but the topic is important to me -- so I hope you'll read on. [though if you'd rather, you can skip right to my donations page!] nanowrimoI mentioned a few weeks ago that I was planning to participate in NaNoWriMo [National Novel Writing Month] again this year to help me get back into the writing habit, and hopefully complete my first draft. a week into things -- I've already made it over 15,000 words! that puts me about 3,000 words ahead of schedul ..read more
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