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Taking sips, not gulps
Life, Su-Mei Yu, Published on 07/02/2012
» After a 14-hour flight from the US, I arrived in Taipei on a morning when the sun was hidden behind a cold, grey mist. Dripping wet from the rain, I stepped into a car. It wasn't exactly an auspicious beginning to a vacation I'd been looking forward to for weeks. Before I set off to spend the Christmas break with my brother and sister-in-law in Taiwan, I'd been struggling through an unusually cold, damp California winter, hoping and praying for a sunny holiday. What greeted me was worse than what I'd left behind. A near-constant drizzle and a sky so dark I was convinced the sun had left to take a holiday in another part of the world.