I’m here for just under two weeks, and as it’s sort of a working vacation (and I’m still recovering from having the plague all last month), I’m spending almost all of it just chilling (well, warming, compared with Alaska) in the southern city of Tainan. At some point I’ll look up how many temples there are in this town. My guess is four hundred million. ; )
I was supposed to be in Hawaii for this break from station, but it fell through, and the thing that happened to work out instead is: Taiwan! First time, and it is DELIGHTFUL so far….
The sun shone on Toolik for a couple of precious minutes at midday today, for the first time since late November. What a beautiful sight!
Looking south at noon…the sun is trying but not quite succeeding in peeking up over the Brooks Range. Here comes the polar winter at Toolik!
