Lots and lots of water tanks...

A traditional Taiwanese style cemetary on the hill. They can't build stuff on hills, so they bury the dead there to save space on flat land. That's my understanding of it at least...

A 7-11, the first of many I've seen here in Taiwan. You can also see an OK (another prolific store chain) across the intersection.

A huge apartment building I could see from out my window.

A rooftop garden, they seem to be popular here...

A closer shot of the cemetary, I used the digital zoom on my camera and maxed it out, so it's a bit fuzzy...

Close up of some scooters parked outside the 7-11.

Looking to the left out of my parent's room window...

Looking straight out of their window...

Looking to the right out of their window... As you can hopefully tell, the city is just sprawling, much much larger than any major city in the United States.

Another 7-11, just down the street from the one outside my window!

Some squalor in the middle of an otherwise decent area, you'll find that sort of thing all over here in Taiwan.

As the sun rises, the smog rolls in over Taipei...

A closer shot of some traditonal style buildings, you can also see a playground at a school or something.

A taxi, and to the left of its front end, a beetle nut hut. These little huts often have attractive, scantly clad girls in them selling beetle nuts, cigarettes and other such products to all the guys passing by. Beetle nut shops aren't nearly as prolific in Taipei as they are in Kaohsiung...