On the road again
Typing from a comfy hotel bed at San Francisco's Calista Organic Hotel, where Stephanie and I are resting before the leap across the big drink to start work on our joint literary travel adventure, Formosa Moon, aka Treasure Island Honeymoon.
More on that in a future post, but for now, a brief recap of the past four years.
1) Travel writer grows weary of the road following lengthy grind, makes choice to grow roots in moist soil of Portland, Oregon following last gig for Lonely Planet concurring with Mayan alignment of 2012.
2) Settles in Portland.
3) Meets life-partner, informs said life-partner that Taiwan will one day call him back. Life-partner agrees to follow when time comes.
4) Four years pass: Time Comes.
5) In mad month-long dash, couple sells or gives away nearly everything they own, reducing contents of 1100 square foot apartment into six airplane-ready bags and hops train for first leg of return to Taiwan.
This, of course, should be considered an extremely compressed recap, and in the cinematic version I'll utilize a montage sequence including, in no particular order:
3.5 years of leading historical and culinary tours through Portland for Portland Walking Tours;
3.5 years of volunteering at community radio station KBOO and producing ten hour-long episodes of our sketch comedy show Puppet Radio Theater;
Earning a university degree with a 4.0 average (she);
Various literary achievements (he);
Dozens of friends with whom we wish we'd spent more time, and a couple others with whom we spent just enough (or perhaps a bit too much),
Two returns to Taiwan (written about extensively on this blog) and one strange mid-winter jaunt to Scandinavia (ditto).
*End Montage*
Return to present moment. Stephanie is showering, and on the sidewalk below a woman is singing opera beautifully, reminding me yet again why I love San Francisco.
In a few hours we'll head over to the San Francisco office of the Taiwan Tourism Bureau before heading to the airport for our EVA flight to Taiwan, where time will again flow in a way that feels normal and we'll begin work on the Formosa Moon.
But more on that later. Next stop, Taiwan!
More on that in a future post, but for now, a brief recap of the past four years.
1) Travel writer grows weary of the road following lengthy grind, makes choice to grow roots in moist soil of Portland, Oregon following last gig for Lonely Planet concurring with Mayan alignment of 2012.
2) Settles in Portland.
3) Meets life-partner, informs said life-partner that Taiwan will one day call him back. Life-partner agrees to follow when time comes.
4) Four years pass: Time Comes.
5) In mad month-long dash, couple sells or gives away nearly everything they own, reducing contents of 1100 square foot apartment into six airplane-ready bags and hops train for first leg of return to Taiwan.
This, of course, should be considered an extremely compressed recap, and in the cinematic version I'll utilize a montage sequence including, in no particular order:
3.5 years of leading historical and culinary tours through Portland for Portland Walking Tours;
3.5 years of volunteering at community radio station KBOO and producing ten hour-long episodes of our sketch comedy show Puppet Radio Theater;
Earning a university degree with a 4.0 average (she);
Various literary achievements (he);
Dozens of friends with whom we wish we'd spent more time, and a couple others with whom we spent just enough (or perhaps a bit too much),
Two returns to Taiwan (written about extensively on this blog) and one strange mid-winter jaunt to Scandinavia (ditto).
*End Montage*
Return to present moment. Stephanie is showering, and on the sidewalk below a woman is singing opera beautifully, reminding me yet again why I love San Francisco.
In a few hours we'll head over to the San Francisco office of the Taiwan Tourism Bureau before heading to the airport for our EVA flight to Taiwan, where time will again flow in a way that feels normal and we'll begin work on the Formosa Moon.
But more on that later. Next stop, Taiwan!
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