The Wanderer » Sun Yatsen memorial http://blog.newsok.com/thewanderer Travels off the beaten path Sat, 04 Feb 2012 23:54:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Travels off the beaten path The Wanderer no Travels off the beaten path The Wanderer » Sun Yatsen memorial http://blog.newsok.com/thewanderer/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://blog.newsok.com/thewanderer/category/sun-yatsen-memorial/ Taipei and back in 61 hours-(Part 9). Off to see Dr. Sun Yatsen and time to go home! http://blog.newsok.com/thewanderer/2009/06/19/taipei-and-back-in-61-hours-part-9-off-to-see-dr-sun-yatsen-and-time-to-go-home/ http://blog.newsok.com/thewanderer/2009/06/19/taipei-and-back-in-61-hours-part-9-off-to-see-dr-sun-yatsen-and-time-to-go-home/#comments Fri, 19 Jun 2009 11:02:36 +0000 sbarrymore http://blog.newsok.com/thewanderer/?p=697 9 a.m. — I dashed across the street to the subway station and headed east to the Sun Yatsen Memorial. Good thing I had taken the trial run the night before! 

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Taipei-Sun Yatsen memorial

The museum wasn’t yet open to the public but I convinced the guard let me stick my head in the door and take a photo of the statue of Sun Yatsen.

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May I present.....Dr. Sun Yatsen

I paused for 15 minutes on the grounds watching older couples do traditional dancing to beautiful Chinese music.

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Taipei -early morning dancing at the Sun Yatsen Memorial

Returning on the subway, I ran to my room, packed my roll-a-board and grabbed a taxi to the bus stop 6 blocks away in front of the Lai Lai Sheraton. No time to walk.

I had 15 minutes before the bus, hurried into the lobby of the Lai-Lai and purchased a pair of earrings for my wife for Mother’s Day. I only had $80, the manager wanted $90, and I paid her $70 telling her I needed $10 to get home from Taipei.

I had been in Taipei for only 16 hours.  What a blast! I arrived at the airport at 12:30; left at 2 p.m., changed planes in San Jose and Dallas and was home at 7 p.m. Sunday to wish my wife “Happy Mother’s Day”!

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