I'm in a Youth Hostel in Taipei, Taiwan right now, just outside the main station. Since I neither read, write, speak, nor understand Chinese it's a bit bewildering. But I do have a local contact here (Anne) and I'll carry on as best I can. I've got lots of stuff to write about, but no time right now. So in brief: I made friends on the ferry, they took me from where the ferry docked (Keelung) to Taipei. I just got back from Anne, her boyfriend, and her sister taking me to a Night Market for a dinner of random (and in some cases unidentifiable) food.
Oh yeah, and
cjthomas, that GPS receiver might just qualify as "Best Gift Ever".