Here are the first of a series of the photos I took while traveling in the Orient with Guinevere. Watch for more posts with photos to come over the next week.

We have never visited Taiwan before, but we have a few factories there, so it was time for a trip. Also, there was a good fair there that we wanted to go to.

This is the airport. Not too much different from U.S. airports. The security is not as strict and they let you use those little luggage carts for free! As soon as we got our bags, we headed out to catch a taxi to the fair.

Below are 3 of the 6 men that surrounded me. They were trying to get the address for where we wanted to go. They couldn’t understand or speak any English. So they all groaned a little when they saw our itinerary and couldn’t read it. They finally ended up calling someone who spoke English and could translate. They really were helpful, you’d never find this kind of service in the U.S.! About 30 minutes later, we arrived at the fair.

This is a view from above of the show floor. Also, some vendors we met.

These are some vending machines at the fair. I bought a lemon soda - it was $30 dollars - Taiwan dollars. The exchange rate is 30:1 USD. I love the graphics!

Taiwan is very tropical - and hot. The temps were in the 80’s and very humid. This is a view from our hotel window.

And this…

And some street views… (They were taken from a moving cab, sorry they’re a tad blurry and crooked too!)

The building in the background is called One Hundred & One. One of our factory contacts told us that there are not actually 101 floors in it, but they call it that anyway.

A view of the Taipei airport terminal. Not one blonde in the whole joint!

Here is a photo of our airplane. It was huge! 2 Storys high!

And even though it was only a 1.25 hour flight to Hong Kong, they fed us a full meal. We didn’t go for it much. Mystery meat and not so tasty veggies - oh they were interesting alright! Yup, you guessed right, that’s a brine-soaked egg in the lower right. I know what you’re thinking.