Day 17: Fairbanks

       I stayed in my room all day long and rest my leg as long as possible. I found that a lot of things have been happening in Taiwan after reading Taiwanese news, which I haven’t read for a long time. I come here to see what is happening on this side of the world, and it is inevitable that I have to ignore what is happening on the other side of the world. I rethought the question of the limitation of life and unlimited information. It is futile to pursue unlimited information with limited life. The only thing I can do is believe what I am doing is meaningful.

Then I picked up Kindle again and read “The Art of Photography” written by Bruce Barnbaum. I gradually get confused as I read more. Perhaps the work of mater is too difficult for me to read now, or because my comprehension to English is not good enough to read a book like this yet. So I read another Chinese book written by a nominee of the Nobel Prize instead.

I did some chores as a return before Duncan and his family came back. As I was doing chores, Duncan came back from work and showed me his bike, and told me he is going to retire this year then start a bike journey from Seattle to Mexico.

My left leg have fully recovered 2 days ago, but my right leg now is even worse than my left leg a few days ago. Obviously, it is not worth doing what I have done. I estimate that I have to rest for another 4 days. Duncan said it is okay to stay longer than I have told him before, but I don’t think that it’s right to stay as long as I want just because the host doesn’t mind. So I decide to move to hostel in downtown for the last 1 or 2 day. It is also nice to change the way of traveling once a while.

Played with Duncan's dog for a while afernoon

two of Duncan's bikes. It seems like having 3 bikes is the baseline to be a bike lover here.