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Vignettes of Taiwan – Short Stories, Essays & Random Meditations About Taiwan
Joshua Samuel Brown ventured to Taiwan in 1994. A fresh university graduate hoping to strike gold in Japan’s land of the rising sun, Brown was convinced by the owner of a small dim sum café in Rochester that he would be better off living in her homeland of Taiwan teaching English. His wallet agreed. A decade later, he still calls Taiwan home.
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Sanuk Sidewalk Surfers
I grabbed a pair of Sanuk’s Sidewalk Surfers at the end of last summer. I thought they were kind of funky and they were on the sale rack. Little did I know, they would quickly become my favourite pair of shoes. I think I even attempted to wear them to the office once or twice. The Sidewalk Surfers are one-part shoe and one-part sandal – the upper protection of a shoe built on top of the flexible bottom of a sandal. They are light-weight, comfortable, and like a second skin. I wear mine at the beach, in the water, through mud, on hikes, to summer dance parties, out shopping, and on airline flights. They barely take up any room in my travel pack. And because they serve as both shoe and sandal, they are all the footwear I need. (Okay, who am I kidding?) And, unlike most shoes, they are also easy to wash and quick-drying.
On-The-Go Soap Sheets
The thin soap sheets come in a plastic, water-proof container wrapped in a cardboard booklet titled PASSPORT and tied shut with a little yellow string. It is both cute and compact. The lightly-scented soap sheets dissolve in water and can be used in a pinch to wash clothes in the sink, clean hands after a charming soap-less bathroom experience, or freshen up in a public washroom. These sheets are perfect for carry-on luggage because you can avoid the hassle of airport liquid restrictions. They dissolve best in hot water, but you can still get a mild soapy clean out of them in cold water. I have even borrowed a sheet from my travel stash to use in the washing machine at home when I have suddenly run out of proper laundry detergent.
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Best multi-purpose shoe ever! If I could live in these, I would.
When I travel, I carry two passports – my blue Canadian passport and a little passport booklet of 20 On-The-Go Soap Sheets. This little booklet of cleanliness has come in handy more times than imaginable!