Poagao's Vidlets


	....in which I climb the hill out back behind my apartment, testing swings, examining crawly things, getting a foot massage and generally wasting time.
	....in which I take a ride out to dip a toe or two in one of the many mountain streams around Wulai, which lies south of Taipei.
	....in which I ride a rented Honda Hornet 250 up to Wanli and then around the northern tip of Taiwan to Danshui, ending up on top of Yangming Mountain.
	....in which my friends Harry, Mark and I exchange less-than-witty banter as we are rowed across the Xindian River.
	....in which I take the train to Taichung and wander around my old stomping grounds at Tunghai University, and then eat hot pot with some friends.
	...in which the making of a promotional spot requires me to ride around on my motorcycle with a video camera strapped to the handlebars, after which I don my old uniform in a desperate attempt to relive my youth.
	...in which I attend a KMT-themed "Pan Blue" rally, walk down Zhongxiao East Road with several hundred thousand other people, and make brilliant observations about the size of the crowd.
	...in which my friends Dean, Katie and I brave great heights in a little blue truck to obtain a long bamboo talisman from the mountains, resulting in the mysterious murder of a famous white chicken.
	...in which I visit the temple of the fortune god in Ba-li on his birthday. This can only mean one thing: Opera!
	...in which I see the world as a member of the Muddy Basin Ramblers. Well, bits of Taiwan, anyway.
	...in which I travel to Shanghai, where I get yelled at by old ladies in dark alleys, and Beijing, where I have the gall to walk under Mao's portrait with a Mao hat on backwards and then get lost in the the Forbidden City.