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Happy New Year!  How many of you have made resolutions?  Last year I went planner happy and filled up a whole page with resolutions...it didn't end well.  Or successfully.  But the fact that I'm getting published trumps anything else that didn't get done, or so I tell...

South Korea.  Oh South Korea.  For years I dreamed of visiting you, eaten up with curiosity to discover if K dramas were a load of baloney or if you were really as magical as you appeared (any fan of K dramas understands 1001% what I'm talking about).  I disembarked...

Well, it HAS been a while since I've last written, hasn't it?  In my defense, the jet lag struggle was real - so very real - and the to-do list at work ever growing.  Throw editing into the mix, and you have one very harried Kristen.  But here I am, in my somewhat...

No trip to Taiwan is complete without visiting the capital Taipei, aka the shopping spree city.  So.  Many.  Market.  Stalls. 8) Taipei, located at the tip of Taiwan, is, like Taichung, mercifully cooler than our first stop - but then again, I think every place north...

Goodbye Kaohsiung, hello Sun Moon Lake!  Haven't heard of it?  Don't worry, neither had I until we were planning this trip.  When Swag Master first suggested that we stay in Taichung for a day and then go to Sun Moon Lake, I just nodded as if I knew what she was...

You know it's going to be an adventure when your cab driver has a Winnie the Pooh sticker on his car. The thought warmed the cockles of my slightly travel-weary heart as Swag Master, MC and I clambered into the taxi at Kaohsiung, Taiwan.  Three countries in one week...