On Fri November 10 2006 12:59 am, Ed Greshko wrote: > Ahhh, Yangmingshan! To be up there now. I live in the heat, errr heart, > of the city. It is warm, but low humidity, 33C here now. Up on > Yangmingshan it is a cool 23C. When I lived there, it was a two lane road going up, largely populated by a few hamlets and farms. There were a couple of 'modern' rental houses about half way to the top, one of which we occupied. At the top, there was a U.S. military housing compound. One night, a drunken sergeant caught a poor Taiwanese guy looking in his window at his wife showering, who had somewhat of a shall we say exhibitionist proclivity. The sergeant shot and killed the poor guy - that led to rioting and the sacking of the U.S. Embassy - I was evacuated to Okinawa by helicopter. It was otherwise a very pleasant interlude of my young years. I'd love to see it now. I guess I better stop digressing before the natives get restless about this OT. -- Claude Jones Brunswick, MD, USA
