Just a few bar pictures. The scene here in 新竹 is mostly 20ish Taiwanese girls and 30-60 year old (creepy) foreigners. And various couples and Taiwanese guys. I've found a pretty fun group of people and bars, but the people I hang out with are not the norm here. I imagine 台北 is a little more my speed and age group, but going there is expensive and daunting. I would certainly go with friends, but alone, that's a bit much.







These two were taken at the request of the guy in the middle. They are of him and the bar staff at one of the smaller dive bars:




I'm in both the next two but can only really be seen in the second one. The guy on the left is from Arkansas and is hilarious and sports a deep, backwoods Southern accent. Yeah...:




And a wall of Heineken:


As it turns out, the unmarked black cabs are nighttime-only businesses that cater to the bar crowd. I've ridden in them a few times and they are completely legitimate and actually a good deal cheaper than your standard yellow cab. So there!

Long Time Coming

Welp, I blame it on the PS3 and general business of my day-to-day life, but here, at last, are the rest of the pictures from that one field trip I went on ages ago. These were all taken around dusk on the 18km bike trail that runs along Xinzhu's coast.











I forgot to bring my camera with me last weekend when I went to Taipei, but I will be bringing it with me this weekend to photograph some of Xinzhu's nightlife. Prepare for mediocrity.