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I’m not sure how to put this, but my father James E. Klein (seen on the left in the above photo) passed away on July 3rd, 2011.  Many of our readers will remember the good times we had with him on our most recent trips to the USA.

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Photos by MJ Klein & Hui-chen

Part of the 2010 USA Trip Series

After New England, we returned to North Carolina, where we had 2 weeks until our return flight back home to Taiwan.  We spent quite a few days relaxing out by the pool and enjoying the local cuisine.

We checked out the new downtown baseball park for an evening game.

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Photos by MJ Klein and Hui-chen, including FOOD PHOTOS

Part of the 2010 USA Trip Series

I used to have a wood smoker back in New Hampshire, and I have missed smoking foods in Taiwan (although I do have a smoker in Thailand).  We went in halves with my sister and her husband and picked up this Brinkmann smoker at Home Depot.  I got to use it quite a few times during our visit.  We’ll show you what we put in the smoker shortly.

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Photos by MJ Klein

Hui-chen, her 2 sisters and I decided to finally walk over to the new Dream Mall in Kaohsiung and ride the ferris wheel on top of the building.  This article contains quite a few photos but there are even more on my Flickr photostream.  Clicking on any photo will take you to the Flickr photo page.

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Food and other photos by MJ Klein

After the wedding, we went down to Kaohsiung to visit the family.  Ping-chen suggested that we check out a Korean style restaurant for lunch.  It was a great suggestion!

The sisters check out the menu

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Food and other photos by MJ Klein

We’ve been experiencing connectivity problems with our blog server, so please forgive the posting infrequency of late.

We decided to head over to Hsinchu City to a place we’d heard about in the Sogo Department Store. It turned out to be a good decision.

First course out of the kitchen was these bao-zhe.  A bit different and very tasty.

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Photos, including FOOD PHOTOS, by MJ Klein & Hui-chen

A few weeks ago we went to visit the family down in Kaohsiung.  Of course we had a great time because we love Kaohsiung and our family knows how to enjoy themselves.

We went to this cool restaurant and covered the table with food, basically.

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Photos by MJ Klein & Hui-chen (with just a few FOOD PHOTOS)

We were rapidly approaching our last 2 days in the US.  We had seen and done just about everything we wanted to do, so we were determined to take it easy on the last 2 days of our trip and enjoy time with the family.

Growing tired of the food in the US, we wanted to try some of the local Asian cuisine.  Having been very dissapointed with what passes off as “Chinese food” we decided to try a place suggested by Adam and his wife.  So, we went to called P.F. Chang’s.

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Photos by Hui-chen, Nancy & MJ Klein

As you know from reading this series, all of us siblings get together very rarely.  So now that we’re all together we want to do things that Dad likes in celebration of being with him, perhaps for the last time.  We decided to rent a boat and take him out for the day on Belews Lake.

We rented a pontoon boat, which is perhaps the best design for a family outing.  Stable, roomy and yet fast enough to give you a bit a thrill, this kind of boat was just perfect for us.

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Photos by MJ Klein, Hui-chen & Nancy, including FOOD PHOTOS

Before we continue with our series, I would like to talk about the series and how I’ve written it.  First of all, I updated the WordPress In-series plug-in and it blew out all the previous series data.  I am unable to re-enter that information and get the updated plug-in to work and actually display series.  This means that all those series I wrote in the past are unconnected.  The articles are still there, but as in this series, there is no longer a list of them at the bottom so you can find all of them.  Sorry but you’ll have to use the search box at the upper right.  I didn’t do it!  UPDATE: I fixed it by creating a new series and editing the previous articles.  I do not want to have to do that for each series I’ve written!

Also, on these series that are not time-sensitive, I’ve been taking my sweet time writing about them.  That certainly is the case with this series, which I have written over many months time.  Also, in some cases I had to think about what I wanted to write about (even though I do outlines) and I also have other things to do.  So that explains why I often write about things that happened some time ago.  Honestly, it just doesn’t matter.

Now, onto the current article: We have some interesting things for you, so sit back and enjoy!

This is our father’s reaction to seeing Nancy coming in the front door.  He didn’t have his glasses on but he knew who it was right away!

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