The Air in Taipei
Speaking of fresh air, Nono and I recently moved from our place in downtown to a nice suburb called TienMu. It’s north of town, borders the mountains and a national park (Yang Ming Shan). The temperature is a bit cooler than in downtown, and the air is better. I took a bus from our new house to downtown recently and was really Shocked at how much of a difference there was in the air.
Last weekend Nono and I had signed up for a 10k run in Taipei. It was put on by Puma and took place on a Saturday night at 6:30pm. I hadn’t thought twice about it, but it ended up being a bad idea. I believe Puma chose an evening run because they wanted to have a post-run party and concert. There were some semi-famous names there for the performances after.
May is really hot and humid. There’s frequent rain and the weather isn’t ideal. So, on race day the weather was typical. 85 and humid. Saturday morning I bought the newspaper and looked at this:
I had to teach a class in the morning, it’s on the 25th floor downtown. Here’s what the air was looking like at 10am. Add a busy day of 500,000 scooters, cars and everything else, the air is only going to get worse too. We decided to skip the run and saw a movie instead 
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