Stinky Tofu Sausage

Disabled Food Cart (Tainan, Taiwan)

As I was sitting waiting for my friends to pop out of the market, I noticed a man selling food. At first it looked pretty normal, but as I looked closer I noticed he had no hands and no legs. I'm not sure if he lives in his cart or his someone will move his cart each day for him.

It amazes me how the poor and those with disabilities work so hard in Taiwan. Then when I look at America and see perfectly functioning people who are too lazy to work a job, sitting around expecting people to give it to them.

Tainan, Taiwan (Trip Part 1)

What started out as a four hour, fun trip driving scooters turned into a twelve hour adventure, through the mountains. I knew it was a little longer going through the mountains but I didn't anticipate it taking that long. In Taiwan scooters aren't aloud on the highway, and some how we ended up on one, giving us a police escort. Luckily he left us off. Then we finally arrived from Taichung to Tainan at 5am.

Not to long into our day, I decided to climb a tree (left picture). However Grant the Korean decided to try to, but fell and twisted his ankle pretty good.

Five Concubine Temple

Apparently there was an Emperor with five concubines. Eventually he died and the dedicated themselves to honoring him or something silly and mystical sounding. (its been to long ago for me to remember all the details)

One of my favorite parts about Tainan is all the history. I think Tainan has best preserved its historical places then all of Taiwan. (Photo: Old Temple's and gods with plaques to historical figures)

Ollie the Bar

This is a short clip from skating in Tainan a few weeks back. enjoy


filmed by Michael Mcdonald

Tainan Skate Trip Part 4

Homer - Fs Noseslide

After getting stitches we headed back out to skate. The rest of the day we hit up this ledge before heading home back to Taichung.

(photo: John filming Chris - gap over bs lip in a line)

John - bs 180

Michael - switch fs flip attempts

 Many times throughout the day we would get small crowds gathering to watch us skate.

John - fs 5-0

Tainan Skate Trip Part 3

Checkin at the Hospital after I smashed my chin on the ground skating. 6 stitches, only 10 mins long, $300NT ($10US), than back to skating.

Tainan Skate Trip Part 2

The next morning we got a hold of Chris Marleau to show us around to some spots. We met up with him at the local skatepark. (Photo: John - Michael's son ripping on tranny)

The had huge banked walls for us to skate on. (Photo: Michael and Jon setting up their cameras)

Found this in Tainan...

Tainan Skate Trip 1

Homer - riding the curve (this spot isn't that great actually)

This weekend is a Chinese Holiday called Peace Day giving us tuesday off of work. Some friends from Naili (Homer and Michael and his family) come down to skate. Taking the train in took extra long because there was a 6.1 earthquake on the way in. (Photo: Michael - fs 180 at full speed)

We rented scooters for the day driving around looking for spots to skate. Key to this is to find the schools. (Michael - wall ride)

After a long day of skateboarding we went to Taiwan's biggest night market. When you combine biggest with holiday weekend, you get a whole lot of people.

All the hotels were booked. We ended up getting a great deal on one for only about $10 each, however there is a price you pay for not paying much of a price. (The smell, the size, the cleanness, the neighbors, the safety, etc.)