August 19, 2007
Taiwan
I managed to get my passport after a Friday morning drive to Miami, four-hour wait at the United States Passport Office, and a drive home during evening Miami commute. The plane out from Tampa to Los Angeles was 6:40 am Saturday morning, July 29. I stayed up and tried to sleep on the plane.
We had a 7 hour layover at LAX before we boarded China Airlines Flight no. 5 to Taipei, which itself was delayed for two hours because of a PA system failure.
Taiwan was hot, muggy, and beautiful and breathtaking. I experienced a cornucopia of sights and sounds, and made some remarkable acquaintances during Wikimania 2007. Much of my Wikimania related photographs can be found in my Commons Gallery, here: Wikimedia Commons Wikimania 2007 gallery.
The city was filled with many other amazing sights. I especially enjoyed the Buddhist Temples. The notable one was Foyou Temple in Danshui, probably because we were the only foreign tourists at the time to be visiting. My sightseeing pictures are mostly located here: Bastique's photos on Flickr.
The flight back was just as tedius. I got home Tuesday morning, August 7, and slept much of that day. It took me several days to finally get caught up in my sleep.
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