When I found out that Public Image Ltd. was touring in the US, I was determined to make one of the shows. We ended up picking the New York show because we knew someone else who was making the trip for that show. For a number of reasons, we dropped our original plan to fly up and stay in a New York hotel for a full week and instead decided to drive up, make some stops on the drive and stay in New Jersey. At first, our plan was to leave on a Friday, drive up to Charleston and stay there for a day before heading back up towards New York.

In 1994, Syracuse hockey fans hailed Howard Dolgan as a hero when the Hamilton Canucks relocated to the upstate New York city. Syracuse had been without a regular minor league team since the Blazers folded in the late 1970s. In 2010 it happened again as he brought the AHL's first outdoor game to Syracuse. In the vein of the recent NHL Winter Classics, the Mirabito Outdoor Classic was held at the New York State Fairgrounds on February 20 between the Crunch and the Binghamton Senators.

Our last night in Taipei, Julia took us to Danshui. She explained it as basically the Coney Island of Taipei. It's a waterfront area out of the main city a bit. To get there, you take the red line north all the way to the end.

After our entirely too-filling lunch, we visited the Chiang Kai-Shek memorial (which is now called the National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall. Mike remarked that the whole thing had the feel of something like the Nixon Presidential Library. All of the exhibits talked about how great General Chiang was, and included a strange assortment of personal artifacts.

On Sunday, we relaxed a bit. We spent the morning sitting in the room looking at the internets and looking through our pictures.

After the bubble tea, we hopped on the Metro and rode back to the main station. We caught a cab back to the apartment and made a brief stop at a 7-11 up the road. For the record, there were at least three 7-11s within a five minute walk, plus a FamilyMart.

We were slow to get around on Saturday. We spent the morning eating the remainder of the bread that Julia left and drinking Dr. Brown Coffee and milk tea that I bought at the Family Mart down the street.

We sat around most of the morning eating breakfast and drinking tea. We finally left around 1:00. We spent the day wandering around near the train station, looking at electronics, with a break in a coffee house. Later, we rode the MRT to the Breeze shopping center and went to Muji and Tokyo Hands, where Liz bought little containers and weird things.