Jennifer L | Blue Wave Studio

I was traveling by train from Hualien in Taiwan in the late afternoon on my way back to Taipei in 2007. Fortunately, I was able to make a few photographs like the one below before the light out the window quickly disappeared making it pointless to try to capture anything while in a fast moving [...]

When I was younger and skeptical about my dad’s suggestions, he would always say to me Trust me. The year was 1999. It was the first time I had traveled internationally that I could remember (I had traveled once before, but I was too young to recall). This time, my family was on a crazy [...]

Despite my wanderlust tendencies, I do not have a carry-on suitcase of my own. I used to have a 26″ suitcase until I lost a wheel. Poof! It was gone somewhere between the walk from the Airport Bus stop along Nathan Road in Hong Kong and my cousin’s place.  And the ground started shaving off [...]

While in Hong Kong, we had booked a tour to the Guangdong Province with a final destination in Shunde for the weekend.  It was perfect timing because we had planned to visit family there afterwards, except that on the morning of our planned departure, a typhoon bound for Hong Kong shut down all transportation by [...]

I flew to Hong Kong on the Cathay Pacific flight I booked several months earlier on a 747-400 with new seats that were introduced last month, which included individual entertainment screens (no charge) that had plenty of options to keep you preoccupied including video games and seats that reclined in its own shell, plus a [...]

We started a Taiwan Tour the day after arriving in Taipei. The van picked us up and two couples at other hotels before we were on our way. After our third stop, our tour guide tried to figure out which language he should use on our journey. One couple was from mainland China, so Mandarin [...]

Taipei, a big city with bright lights as my good friend describes it, reminded me of Hong Kong, but not as busy. Her parents learned that we were going to be in Taipei and offered to show us around. Her father used to be a department chair at a state university in the United States, [...]

My friend Sandy and her family had raved about a Tomato Beef Knife Cut Noodle Place in Taipei. While wandering the streets of Taipei, a local had recommended this restaurant to them. It’s a hole-in-the-wall type of place and without an exact address, we only had walking directions from the metro station with a link [...]