Make your own giant Venus flytrap costume and stuffy
When I asked my kid what he wanted to be for Halloween this year, he spontaneously yelled out “Venus flytrap!” […]
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DIY Supa Fly: make a house fly costume
For Halloween this year, my kid wants to be a Venus flytrap. So, I decided to be a house fly
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Saving seeds to grow tomatoes at home: super easy and fun
Late summer and fall is the perfect time to save tomato seeds to grow on your own. I find that
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Unexpected Delights in Taroko, Taiwan: mountain millet mochi and more
This is the first post in my new Unexpected Delights series! I cover Taroko National Park’s Shakadang Trail, a bit
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It’s a buggy life
A couple days after my family joined me in Taiwan, we went swimming in the rural mountains of Miaoli County,
Super pod of dolphins on Taiwan’s East Coast
This super pod of pantropical spotted dolphins (熱帶點斑原海豚) showed off their acrobatic swimming and played with our boat when we
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Unambitious travel: learning how to stop when things are “good enough”
A few days ago I decided to go to Yangmingshan National Park, northeast of Taipei and Beitou, where I was
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Beitou hot springs: snake oil baths?
I arrived in Beitou early on a drizzly Wednesday morning, exhausted and achy from a cramped and sleepless 14-hour flight.
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Breaking through my pandemic shell to travel abroad again
During the Covid pandemic I built up a many-layered shell. Like the deep sea “volcano snail,” I formed multiple types
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