Thursday, July 26, 2012
Africa 2012 - s. africa - cape town
Thursday, March 5, 2009
APAN 27 in Kaohsiung
2009.02.28 at 10pm, arrive Taipei, TW. Met by Syu-Je WANG who escorted me to the Howard (Plaza) Hotel.
2009.03.01 (Sunday) 9:30am met up with Syu-Je WANG and Stanley WANG for city tour. Chiang Kai-Shek memorial. We were lucky to get there just at the changing of the guard. Visited Botanical Garden across from Jonathan's High School. Organic Tapanyaki lunch near the 101 Buliding. Visited the National Palace Museum. Tea/coffee time at the traditional Grand Hotel. Organic Taiwanese dinner in Yang-Min Shan (Mountain).
2009.03.02 (Monday) Hosted by Dr. Eugene Yeh, Director NCHC, visit National Science Council, NCHC... High speed train to Kaohsiung. TEIN3 reception in evening. Stay at Grand Hi-Lai Hotel, Kaohsiung.
2009.03.03 (Tuesday) APAN 27. APAN reception in evening.
2009.02.04 (Wednesday) Tour to Southern Taiwan and Kenting National Park. APAN banquet at Love Pier, river cruise up the Love river.
2009.03.05 (Thursday) APAN 27 meeting. Dinner hosted by APAN-JP.
2009.03.06 (Friday) Breakfast discussion with Mary Fleming of AARnet about the upcoming APAN and perhaps TLPW-AARNet workshop in Sydney for February 2010. Final sessions of APAN 27. Plane to Hualien.
2009.03.07 (Saturday)
2009.03.08 (Sunday) Return to LA via Narita.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
APAC'07 in Perth and travels in Western Australia
Trip to
Saturday October 6th, 2007: Left LA at 10:30 pm on United to
Monday October 8th, 2007: Arrived
Tuesday October 9th, 2007: Woke up early so went for a walk along the beach on the sand (to the North - Trigg Beach). Reached some rocks and found an osprey to take some pictures of – he was posing for me.
Attended the APAC meeting for the rest of the day. Went to bed early since I was tired so I missed the APAC dinner which was at Freemantle Jail.
Wednesday October 10th, 2007: Attended the APAC meeting. Dinner at Oceanus with the DERCAP workshop Organizing Committee in the evening. Greek owner is quite a character. It took 1 hour to get a cab back to the hotel.
Thursday October 11th, 2007: Workshop all day. Workshop went well. Seems the attendees were well engaged and there was good discussion. Dinner in the evening at Frasers in a private room. Excellent dinner. Brazilian waiters. The restaurant proper has a fantastic view of the city.
Friday October 12th, 2007: Workshop in the morning. Went pretty well. We’ll see if we can get delivery on next steps. In the afternoon I got a ride to Hertz at the airport with someone else taking a taxi there. Rented a Toyota Corolla and decide to drive North. I want to make it to the Pinnacles which is quite far ~250km. I try to go through Lancelin which doesn’t go through so have to take a detour. Lancelin looks interesting - small town lots of white sand dunes – no time to explore this trip. I get to Pinnacles about 30 minutes before sunset – good light but not really enough time to explore properly. Interesting place – limestone pinnacles everywhere – a bizarre landscape. I see some pink parakeets on top of one of the Pinnacles. Long drive back to
Saturday October 13th, 2007: Checked out of the hotel around 8:30 and drove south through Freemantle and along the coast to Bussellton – bought Bert a card!. This has a pier that is 2km long. Drove through the Ludlow forest – very pretty. Worked my way around the coast to
Sunday October 14th, 2007: Virgin Blue flight at 00:50 to