In the US, these two with another nearby would be called “Middle Knob”, “Little Knob”, and “West Knob”. Or something like that.
They are tiny peaks standing below some other sharp hills. They have stairs cut in to them for climbing. “Loving Mother” has 276 stairs, each of which I very, very slowly counted in bad Chinese on the way up. Made for an easy climb.
Found them after some blundering around in the village of P’ing Hsi, which is a narrowing of the road through some stores and such.
The blundering led out of town. Coming back in, I thought I found the right path and went up it. The path led to a couple of houses, one with a barking dog and a women who was either coming or leaving. I showed her the book with the Chinese characters for what I was looking for. She said something that started with what sounded like 200. I presumed “meters” and she was pointing to where I should go. Thanked her, went down the hill, down the road, found the right path and a big sign showing all the sights. Read it for a bit, started up the path, heard honking and saw the woman in her car waving to me to get in. OK. So, I’m male and she’s female, so I guess she’s not up to no good. I get in, she drives me a little ways down the road to where another little road leads up and indicates that this is where I need to go.
Sure ‘nouf. The trail had been blocked or something by the new road.
Since it was Monday, I found myself in the low end of the age range of walkers. Few people out, though. Fun walk. Cute hills.
Caught the same bus back to the MRT (subway). Helped a kid with his English homework and got him to drill me on numbers.
Got back tired.
Spent the evening getting the other half of the hotel I’m in up with two computers on the internet. New WIFI wall/router box. Real hassle. Needed to change an XP box by guesswork (Spanish XP), then change IE to use Big5 so a guy from Singapore could read the wall’s menus. When we got it running, the Ubuntu box could work (it could not before that). And, so this is written from a CD-booted Ubuntu box.
Used this special boot to look at asuka upload. Looks like the last two things were lost. No sweat. One was probably a junk pic. The other was an audio recording that I can easily dupe.
It’s late. I’m tired. So much for computers and the productivity they give to us. 🙂
Tks, Scott. The box did the trick for these guys. Or at least I expect everything to work as soon as this PC’s XP is re-config’d.
Damn these computers enabling you to instantly publish your journal to whole freaking world. 😉 Don’t forget the “instantaneous” development and transfer of your pictures, audio records, and movies.
The note on the differing naming scheme is a interesting thought. I wonder how much of a cultural difference it demonstrates. I can’t help but to think of the Three Sisters.
Man, I give you props on the counting. I probably would have given before 100.