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It seems like it was yesterday when we were talking about the 5th anniversary of TheNHBushman.com, but now it’s been six years since we started!

Hui-chen and I would like to thank all of our loyal readers who have stuck by us and faithfully read our articles about our personal travels and experiences.  This website would be nothing worthwhile at all without your readership and especially your participation in the comments sections.  We’ve very much enjoyed sharing our travels with you and we hope to bring you much more in the future!

Thank you all!

We are happy to announce that Google Inc. has signed a deal to purchase our blog for an undisclosed amount.  Google has hired Hui-chen and I as a writing team for the blog, so the content will be the same as always!  Google, who owns Blogger, has embarked on a new project, aimed at preserving the last remaining personal blogs in existence, and since Hui-chen and I blog on our own life travels and experiences, we are on their list of blogs to preserve.

“These days, the blogosphere is clogged with a myraid of copied and re-post content blogs.  Bushman’s blog is unique because it’s a window into the lives of 2 real people who are running their own business and traveling to exotic destinations and writing about it, but they don’t try to come off as experts on anything, and they’re not promoting an agenda” said Sonya Belanger, spokesperson for Google, and the person in charge of the personal blog preservation project.  ”Their blog has an intimate and personal feel to it.  That’s refreshing.”

We look forward to a long and fruitful relationship with Google!

Dear Readers,

It’s that time again – time to vote for your favorite blog in the 2010 Taiwan Best Blog Awards! We’ve done well in the past 2 years and we thank you for that. This year it’s just as easy to vote. You can click on the icon on the right hand column to go to the voting page. You may vote once per day, per IP (location).

Thanks for your votes!

Hui-chen and I have entered a Facebook photo contest that is open to residents of Asia.

We would appreciate it if our readers who use Facebook would vote for our photograph in the contest.

Please click on this link and click the Vote Now button on the top right of the photograph.

You may vote once per day so please don’t feel shy about voting every day! Hui-chen and I thank you!

Photo by Hui-chen

We’ve just returned from a whirlwind trip to the USA!  We’re ready to bring you the story of where we went, what we did, what we saw and what we ate!  But before we get into the first installment of our trip I want to ask our readers for their opinion of how we should format the articles.

Bushman Meets Mike01905 in Lynn, Massachusetts

In our last trip series, we brought you the food experiences last, in separate articles at the end of the series.  Dear Readers, how should we present the food experiences this time?  Do you like the separate articles at the end, or do you want to see what we ate along the way, in chronological order (as best as we an accomplish that)?  Let us know and we’ll get into this brand new series with a bang!

Thanks for reading everyone!

This is a little blurb between articles, just to announce that our blog is five years old today! It’s been a fantastic journey through exotic lands, amazing cuisine and interesting and fun destinations! We hope you’ll browse through the archives and relive some of those memories with us, while we look forward to another five years with you!

Thanks to all our loyal readers!

I just wanted to say thank you to all who voted for us recently in the Taiwan Blog Awards.  We apologize for whatever malfunction occurred that prevented many of you from being able to vote.  We ended up with less votes this year than we had last year, as a result.  Nevertheless we did manage to win in the personal blog category, and we thank the judges and participants for their votes.

Later this month, Hui-chen and I will be going to Thailand and Laos, with 2 other prominent bloggers from Taiwan.  This is going to be a monumental trip, with no less than 2 expeditions planned to some very interesting sites!  We won’t be blogging from those places though because of the lack of internet facilities.  We’ll try to post a daily photo using our mobile phones and then we’ll do a day-by-day account when we return.  We’re sure you’ll enjoy the series on this trip!

Thanks again to everyone who reads our blog, and especially to our wonderful commentators.  This blog wouldn’t be what it is without your participation!

It’s that time of year again folks!  We won the Best of 2008 last year, and now is your chance to vote us #1 again this year.

Please cast your vote for us by clicking on the image below and visiting Taiwanderful.  You’ll see a box with a number and a cross “+” underneath.  Click on the cross to cast your vote.

Thanks to all our loyal readers.  You are the best!

Dear Readers,

Our Low-Rater is back with a vengeance. I know who it is. This is the kind of thing we can expect from this person, who doesn’t have any friends, or really anything else going for him at all, especially a life. His motivation is jealousy. It’s sad really. Even sadder when you think that this person is actually taking time to do this. He did the same thing to my YouTube videos too.

Just take a look at what he did while sitting in his car behind some building, leeching off their free wi-fi:

10/5/09 6:54:01 AM New Gas Grill 1
10/5/09 6:53:56 AM Ancient History 1
10/5/09 6:53:50 AM Taiwan Trash Truck 1
10/5/09 6:53:46 AM Getting A Taiwanese Driver’s License 1
10/5/09 6:53:40 AM Current Events 1
10/5/09 6:53:36 AM Memorable Meals 2007, Part II: Banquet Food 1
10/5/09 6:53:32 AM BBBB Mobile 1 1
10/5/09 6:53:27 AM Bushman’s Blogger Beach BBQ 1
10/5/09 6:53:21 AM Today’s Ride 090922 1
10/5/09 6:53:16 AM Grill Party At A-Dong’s 1

Notice the times. He’s not reading the articles, obviously.

So the question is: “When is he going to grow up?”

Not the kind of current events you might be expecting, but what’s going on with us and our blog.

First of all, some ass is going through our articles and giving us the lowest ratings.  I’m sure this makes him feel better somehow, but it also makes me wonder just how bad off someome must be to derive pleasure from something as juvenile as that.  This person deserves our pity and our forgiveness.  They must be having a drug problem or something else just as difficult.  No matter, it’s easy to ignore a low rating.  I do apologize to others for their ratings being taken down a notch.

Our Nikon D80 camera is in the shop undergoing a rather serious repair.  It might not be back in time for our Beach BBQ on September 19, so if you’re planning on going, please take lots of photos and upload them to Flickr.com for us.  There is a group on Flickr just for Bushman’s actitives.

Speaking of the Beach BBQ, it looks like we might just have ourselves a pretty good sized group.  Be sure to bring what you want to eat and drink with you.  At the other end of the beach (the south end) there are some vendors and if you want to venture down there that’s fine of course.  We will be situated north of those vendors, at the next shelter up the road.  I’ll be there shortly after noon so look for me.  Remember, you know you’re at the right place when there are little/no food vendors around and the vegetation is grown up so you can’t see the shelter from the road very well.  I’ll be bringing  charcoal grill, and some others are going to bring grills so we should have plenty of grill space for taking turns cooking stuff.  If anyone has a tarp and some rope, we sure could use that to extend the shelter.  Also, the seating is rather sparse, so if you have some chairs, that would be good too.  Even a beach blanket would work because the shelter has a wooden plank floor.  There are restrooms at the south end of the beach, so I’ll be running a little shuttle back and forth between where we are and the restrooms.  You can bring your bikes if you want to because we will be right beside a very nice bicycle trail.  It’s a very nice area I think you’ll agree.

That’s all for now.  If you have any questions or comments be sure to leave them.  Thanks!