Confucius Inn Tainan

Today was a much needed rest day, though it really wasn't that restful. All that was scheduled for today was some touring around Tainan City. Alan and Patrick picked us up at 9am and we set off to see the sights. Our first stop was the Eternal Fortress ...

... of this trip I'll be able to stomach eating a fish with the head still attached. After lunch we traveled to the Tainan Hydrologic Laboratory (THL) to get our presentations in order and transferred over the their computers. We were shown to the "Guest ...

... . Dr Wu's enthusiasm is overwhelming. He is like the Energizer bunny. We went to the only late night "Western style" eatery in Tainan, but that actually meant that they had forks to eat eastern style food. I had "salad bar" which was a combination of ...

... we go to dinner. Dinner was just us, Dr Wu, Patrick, and Alan. That goodness, no formal dinner. We drove through Tainan City to a small eatery near a high school stadium. Complicating our trip was traffic from people attending a near by professional ...

... promptly at 8:30a, and surprise, surprise, I was late. Today is our presentation day at the National Cheng Kung University in Tainan. It is a very short ride to the university, and even with my tardiness, we arrived with time to spare. Inside, we ...

... and Alan returned to fetch us at 6:30p, and off we went to meet Dr Wu at Pizza Hut. Pizza Hut has one sit down restaurant in Tainan, and luckily it is near NCKU. It is on a corner, and is 3 stories tall. There is an area to pay on the first floor, ...

Today was the first day of the 2008 Geological Society of Taiwan Annual Congress. Patrick and Alan picked us up at the hotel at 8:30a, and we made the very short trip to National Cheng Kung University. Two weeks before leaving for Taiwan, I attended ...

... this site, so it has been very useful. We said good bye to Dr Ting and his companions and set off to return to Tainan City. We stopped about a 1/2 hour into our trip for what Dr Wu described as an "icy dessert". Of course we Americans were expecting ...