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| Taipei airport very early in the morning |
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| My gate |
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Bored... taking pictures of myself |
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Hello Kitty |
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| So nice when it's not crowded |
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My definition of Hell on earth... a perfume store |
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| Some of my fellow passengers to Hong Kong |
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My ride to Hong Kong from Taipei |
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| Escalator in Hong Kong Airport |
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These apartment buildings facinate me |
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| They're so narrow |
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And there are so many units |
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| Suspension bridge |
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| Tai Lam Tunnel |
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Inside the endless tunnel |
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| Hanging clothes |
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Must be laundry day |
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| Can tell that we're getting closer to Longhua... the vehicles get more and more sketchy |
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Until finally... we're on the streets of Longhua... the streets with no lanes |
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| Early morning smog |
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My traveling companions |
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| Foxconn Longhua campus |
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Abby Road |
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| This is A2... the building where I spend most of my time |
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| The VIP center on the left |
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Looking down the street on the LH campus |
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| Terry Guo's offices |
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The overpass |
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Food stalls at street level |
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Our taxi |
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| The taxi drivers don't take any chances |
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| Ken and Allison |
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The front of the Dragon Springs... my hotel |
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| The inside court at the 'Dragon' |
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Not sure what this was... some bracing over the court yard |
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| Court yard fountain |
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The view from my room |
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| Close-up of the garbage pile under my window |
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| Interesting signage |
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Folks who appeared to be living on the roof across from my room |
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| Night signage |
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| Air pollution... gahk |
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| The moon! My Gawd... Nature! |
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Rework? Do they have an SOP? |
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| Service area outside A2... the building where I worked |
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Looking the other way |
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| My dream job |
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The pool... it was bitterly cold... somewhere in the 60s I'm guessing |
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| Nice pool though... but next time I'm bringing a wetsuit... I'm not as studly as these guys |
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| One of the many golf carts parked in front of A2 |
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Jakub... isn't he a stud? |
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| Ken.. trying to keep a straight face |
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Reggie reacting to the traffic... my trick was just not to look |
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| Here he is trying to look all calm |
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| My favorite sushi place in Longhua... actually the only sushi I've ever had in Longhua |
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Yiho! |
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| Yiho and Jakub |
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Some kind of pre-work cerimony |
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| All done... time for work |
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Reggie and Ken said nothin' raw... at a sushi place?! |
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| Nasty |
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Once again I ate too much |
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Two crazy vehicles... but typical... dad taking his family on the bicycle... and then one of those moving van tricycles. |
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Oh! Here is one of those crazy guys riding a bicycle through traffic carrying three propane tanks... it's like he's a bomb! |
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| Just after this picture was taken... he buzzed right through a red light without a care |
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| Family hauling company |
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| This was a picture of a dead chicken in the elevator at the Dragon Spring... irrestible huh? |
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| Sun setting over Shenzhen |
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Rush hour |
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| My Hong Kong hotel room.... |
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Very nice after two weeks in Longhua |
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They upgraded Jim and me... |
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| Out and about in Hong Kong |
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Jim on the ferry |
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| Hong Kong from the ferry |
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Ferry landing |
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| Street in Hong Kong |
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| Ally in Hong Kong |
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The Peninsula Hotel |
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Fountain in front of the Peninsula Hotel |
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| I like this picture... the tower in the background just seemed to float in the night sky |
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More pictures of my hotel room... this was one of my bathrooms |
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| Next morning... picture out my window... you can see me in the reflection in the window across the street |
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Ferry out in the harbor from my room window... |
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| Tai Chi practitioners across the street |
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Reflections of flags in the morning |
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| Sat with my coffee and watched the harbor much of the morning |
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View out my bathroom window |
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| Gorgeous building you could see from my room |
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| Reflection of penthouse in building next to my hotel |
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| Hong Kong across the harbor |
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| Water flowing down a sculpture |
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Cool sandbox thing... would be fun to do something like this in our house |
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| The front of the hotel |
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Across the street from the hotel at street level |
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| Random Hong Kong scenes |
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| Shipping traffic in the harbor |
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Cranes for unloading ships |
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| The top of one of the suspension bridges |
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Hong Kong airport |
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| Good advise when driving in China |
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The guy next to the black guy is/was the rudest person I've ever experienced on an airplane |
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| EVA airplane scene |
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We sit in the very nose of the airplane on EVA |
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| return to travel |
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