Location: Taipei, Gorgeous Hotel, Japanese-style Hot Pot
Travel note: At noon today, Jason, a big brother who retired from the tech industry a few years ago, took the high-speed rail from Zhubei to have lunch with me. The weather was a bit chilly, so of course, we had hot pot :P. So we casually had a meal at the restaurant above the hotel where he was staying. Due to work and his love for travel, he has been to many countries (Europe, Japan, North America, mainland China, Southeast Asia, Australia, etc.) and has a very rich and exciting life. Listening to him tell stories—like encountering a warlord in the mountains of Myanmar who said he could mine gold if he paid, riding a minivan on a dangerous road in Yunnan with boulders blocking the front, cliffs on the side, and a big river below, or sleeping alone in a Citibank in the Netherlands on a winter night because of language barriers, or drinking too late in Japan and forgetting about a client visit the next day, thinking the deal was off, but then things took a turn, and it turned out the Japanese company president happened to know the same friend as him... "To be all you can be." That's how I described his life, and I a…
