Lin SF's assistant send us to the Taipei Bus Station, buys our ticket for Yilan about an hour's trip to meet HSY. The bus ride must have been comfortable because I fall asleep, and when I wake we are at the Yilan bus terminal.
The architect for the terminal is there to meet us, and immediately gives us a tour of his project. He then drives around town for a quick tour as dusk falls. Dinner is at an out of the way family restaurant, in the rice fields not far from the sea.
At 8pm, we arrive at our home in Yilan. There is another family there, who knows HSY and one of his staff, Ching Han - a fan of HSY obviously as he has stayed here several times. As the architectural tour continue, the house owner arrives and greet HSY like an old friend. He brings out two of HSY's books so that the master can brief this 2 backwater tourists.
Eric texts 'how is everything?' 'All good, eating watermelon, he's talking'. And he does - about work, life, staff, teaching, his wife, family life, succession. I realise that he and I share many common traits regarding how we work with our colleagues-
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