https://calderescapes.com The Calder's Global Travels Tue, 12 May 2026 15:12:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://calderescapes.com/wpcms/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-ce-site-icon-32x32.png https://calderescapes.com 32 32 https://calderescapes.com/posts/last-full-day-in-taipei-tai/ Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:27:22 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=83355 April 16th, 2026                                                                                                          […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/saud-beach-south-back-to-manila-ph/ Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:12:34 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=83216 April 8th, 2026 We were headed to Pagudpud – a beach area in the north of the island of Luzon.  Supposed to have it’s own “white beach”.   The drive was pretty rural with lots of small towns and farmland with rice, corn and tobacco being the main crops we could figure out. The town of […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/heading-north-on-luzon-ph/ Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:44:44 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=83097 April 5th, 2026 Happy Easter! We had set our alarm for 5:30 am as we did not hear back from our transport before going to bed but upon ringing we saw a message that they’d pick us up at 7:30 not six. We tried to go back to sleep with no luck. After packing up […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/white-beach-boracay-ph/ Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:06:38 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=82937 March 31st, 2026 We have been to the Philippines before – back in 2014 when Fran retired and Doug went to part time and we took a “round the world” to celebrate before beginning full time overlanding. Back then, we didn’t do country info so we’ll do it here. The Philippines, is an archipelago country in Southeast Asia […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/heading-south-in-taiwan/ Fri, 27 Mar 2026 08:08:24 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=82465 March 27th, 2026 Today we were up early as the road into the Taroko National Park had first access opening between 7 and 8 am. We were told if we missed that the next window was 10:00 to 10:05, some short windows around noon and 3 and that the access is closed at 5.  We […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/taiwan-east-coast/ Thu, 26 Mar 2026 01:15:46 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=82256 March 25th, 2026 We left our hotel in Taipei before 8:30, walked to the Main train station and all on our own, we found the platform and track we needed to be at for our train trip to Hualien. It’s about a 2.5 hour trip and it made 4 stops. About a third of the […]]]> https://calderescapes.com/posts/taipei-taiwan/ Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:16:08 +0000 https://calderescapes.com/?p=82129 March 20th, 2026 Taiwan operates as a de facto independent country with its own government, military, economy, and passport, yet it lacks widespread formal international recognition due to China’s “One China” principle. While Taiwan functions as a democracy, Beijing views it as a breakaway province, limiting its formal diplomatic recognition to around a dozen countries; […]]]>