Roll 2: The Dragon Boat Festival

View from the front door


My short, short house


Food tents far afield


She waited in line to bang that drum


Inter-racial


The fan stands


Pretty Port-o-Potties


Readying for a race


Sheltering from the sun under the bridge


And they're off


One breaks ahead


It was close up until this point


Home stretch


It's over


Victory pass before the adulating crowds


Return to dock


Beautiful cable-stayed bridge


Um...they're balancing eggs.


Heading toward the tents


It don't look it, but the sun was barely bearable


Breakdancers to unseen right


The South African team


Back under the bridge, w-a-y back under the bridge


Waiting for another race


Typhoon tomorrow, so skies are cleared out


90° right, over the library and on to the northern hills


Over to the south. My house would be dead-center
if it weren't too short to see.


SSW over a dorm


Across Heping Road, this is the older section of
the NTNU campus


To the SWW


Workers fixing the falling-off brick tiles


Looking down on the school courtyard


Neighborhood 'tween my school and my house


Post office parking lot



'Nother street scene


My enchanting first view of Chiang Kai-shek


CKS's surrounding white wall


View on the inside

Roll 1: Arrival Explorations and Da'an

Picture from a small park


First good view of daylight Taipei—--
from my hostel's bathroom window


Motor scooter mega-lot (a.k.a.—--sidewalk)


Found the school--the NTNU inner courtyard


I should mention that I'm standing
in air conditioned space (!!!)


The school's inner courtyard on my side of the street


A very fashionable underground
parking deck entrance


Heping road


Green!


Heping at a light, taken from
the pedestrian overpass


Da'an Forst park's fine attempt at a fashionable
underground parking deck entrance


My one prohibited picture from
inside Taipei 101's mall


Eerily reminiscent, but totally
unrelated--the NTNU school library


The school roof is left unlocked ;)


Looks dirty, but the air's much clearer up here


The eastern view


That's where the tennis courts are!


Yongkang Park exhibiting the best
slide design in the world and with a
very sensible use of stairs


The park's mosaicked concrete
bathroom-protecting barriers


Prayer at a statue in Da'an


Da'an's one hill


The five-meter thick, so-close-fitting-you-couldn't-
stick-a-pencil-into bamboo stand


The ubiquitous foot massage paths


The 'Forest' part of the park


Mossy root-like things drape down from the trees


Classic


Florida


You are not in the bathroom,
but yes, those are tiles


Shrubbery!


Walkers on the flowery trail


Public roller rink--too cool


Saturday afternoon madness


If it's big and green, has tiles but
no leaves, you have a post office


Da'an from another school roof


South on a no-mountain day


Little less smog to the north


Banner inside the school--"Karaoke--Singing
songs to learn Chinese"