Fortunately, Hong Tao didn't express his conclusion, otherwise he would be despised by the bus driver. The black driver would definitely say: Hey, brother! Wipe your eyes and look again. That's not snow, that's ice, that's glacier.
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But Hong Tao soon figured it out, because there were many small icebergs floating in the lake. They didn't look white in the distance, but light blue. Hong Tao even went down to the lake and reached out to fish out a piece of floating ice.
, and asked Irene to take pictures with the glacier as the background. This piece of ice is different from all the ice that Hong Tao has seen. It is not particularly transparent in texture. The ice is filled with porcelain-like fine lines and countless small bubbles.
At first glance, it seems that it is not frozen directly with water, but more like it is pressed together with snow.
Hong Tao didn't pay too much attention to the glacier opposite. There was nothing to see there. One glance was enough. Unless you majored in geology, it would be useless to look too much. Hong Tao paid more attention to the lake in front of him. Just now he took action.
When fishing for ice cubes, I deliberately put my face close to the water, facing the wind and smelling the smell on the water.
The result made him very excited. There was actually a faint fishy smell here, which proved that there were fish in the lake. Since there were fish, Hong Tao instinctively began to observe which location on the lake shore was more suitable for hanging, and which part might be possible.
It is a fish passage. If you come here to fish, you should choose the best locations...
"You violated the rules! You said you would come out to play with me instead of fishing, but you turned out to be thinking about fishing again." Irene couldn't stand it anymore. You took pictures of me, and I took pictures of you.
There were also those who went for a walk by the lake. Only Hong Tao had his hands on his hips, standing on a high slope and looking at the lake in a daze, just like the revolutionary predecessors pointing out the country. Irene was so familiar with him, he must be thinking about the things in the water.
Where's the fish?
"Oh, I won't do it next time! I won't do it next time! I didn't mean it, it was all done by chance, I apologize! I plead guilty!" Looking at Irene's pouted mouth, Hong Tao realized that he was distracted again. But it doesn't matter, American girls and China
Girls have different habits. When they are angry, as long as you apologize sincerely, everything will be fine immediately. As for the root of your thoughts, whether you will do it again in the future. They basically don't care about this. They just apologize next time.
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After watching the glacier, we returned to the dock. It only took more than an hour to come and go. The cruise ship would not leave here until dinner, so there were still a few hours to spend. Spending is a waste, but there is nothing to buy in Juneau.
Hong Tao and Irene asked around and finally found a restaurant. Let's settle our stomachs first and then talk about things in the afternoon.
There were fewer people on the street in the afternoon. Hong Tao and Irene didn't want to take the cable car to climb the mountain, and they didn't want to get back to the boat so early, so they had no choice but to walk hand in hand in the small town. Not to mention, they had no intention of planting willows.
The two of them found a small museum about gold diggers.
It is said to be a museum, but it actually looks no different from a small hotel, except that there is an extra line of words on the wall outside the door. The owner of the museum is a middle-aged man named Ian Bridge. According to his introduction,
His ancestors had participated in the site selection and construction of this city, and were also one of the many gold diggers who struggled here.
Ian himself is an electronic engineer who originally worked for the Boeing Company in Seattle. However, after he accidentally opened a diary left by his grandfather, he became very interested in the life of the gold diggers back then. So he put his work aside.
I resigned and ran back to Juneau. With the support of the city government, I raised my own funds and began to collect all the information and items about the gold diggers back then. After four years of hard work, I finally built this small
Small museum.
The museum only has a total area of 4 small rooms. It tells the story of the life of gold diggers before and after the founding of Juneau City. Most of the items are tents, lanterns, pickaxes and other items used by gold diggers at that time, and there is also a small gold digger.
Process model. The most valuable thing in the entire museum is
A small bag of placer gold, about 10 grams in weight, is filled with small golden particles of low purity. Back then, those gold diggers dug sand and gravel from streams in the mountains, and then used the impact of the stream water to make simple
Wooden tools are used to scoop out these small particles from the massive amounts of sand and gravel.
What interests Hong Tao most is not this museum, nor how gold was mined back then. You don’t have to travel so far to see this. You can understand it all by just looking for a documentary. What interests Hong Tao most is Ian. He is very difficult to understand.
Imagine an engineer working for a large company like Boeing
, why would you leave your well-paid job and go back to this small city that is not even accessible by trains or cars to build a museum? Moreover, this museum is free to visit, except for the small amount of funds allocated by the Juneau city government every year.
, the rest of the expenses have to be obtained through begging for donations.
Could it be that Ian has an addiction to begging for help? Or that he comes from a wealthy family and is the kind of person who has nothing to do? After Hong Tao spent a long time writing on the ink, he couldn't help but raised this question in a very Chinese tactful language,
Ian actually didn't understand what Hong Tao was saying. Finally, after Irene told him what Hong Tao meant in a straightforward way, he answered simply.
"Because I want to do this. If I don't do it, I will regret it when I think about it when I get old. Then I may not be able to do it."
As for his source of livelihood, Ian said that his family is not a wealthy one. His wife is an ordinary employee of Boeing Company. His parents are retired and he has two children in school. He now has basically no income every month and relies entirely on his wife.
One person raises a family.
Regarding Ian's very simple answer, Hong Tao can only attribute this idea to cultural differences and different living environments. Hong Tao found that many people in the United States have this idea. As long as I want to, I will do it.
As for whether it can succeed or not, that is a matter of God. They are only responsible for whether to do it or not!
In fact, there is such a person around Hong Tao. His wife Irene plans to quit her job at a law firm and run Hong Tao's half-dead human reselling company. Even people like Hong Tao who don't like to go to work will do it.
I was shocked by Eileen's completely unthinking thoughts.
But if you look back and think about it carefully, the American lifestyle of doing whatever you want and being completely reckless is not without its benefits. The reason why the United States can become a big country in science and technology is related to this kind of adventurous thinking. There are many
New things are created by these impulsive individuals.
Of course, this is also thanks to the country's welfare system. At least they don't have to worry about whether their children will not be able to go to school or whether the whole family will live on the streets if the adventure fails. Even the man in the dumpling shop in New York does nothing.
If you can earn thousands of dollars a month, there is naturally no great pressure in life. Chinese people often say: People are light and airy without pressure! But it is precisely because of lightness that you can have the brain to think about more other problems, and you will do things that seem unattainable.
Only by doing marginal things can we be more creative.
In addition to this small museum, Hong Tao also found a library on the main street of the small town. Although there were not many people on the street outside, there were many people in the library, all of them immersed in reading in their seats. There are both young and powerful people here
There were young and middle-aged people, as well as gray-haired old people. I saw two of them, Hong Tao, an old lady with a cane.
According to the Chinese concept, this small town is at least a border town, just like our remote towns on the Sino-Soviet border or in Yunnan and Tibet. In his previous life, Hong Tao, as a person who worked in a travel company, used to follow important customers around the country.
We have visited many places, even in popular tourist attraction areas.
I have never seen a library set up on the main street of a tourist attraction. This kind of location is usually the site of restaurants, tourist souvenir shops, hotels, or even worse, it is also the location of local government agencies. A library like this is a penny
If you don't make money and still lose money, you should roll it as far as possible.
At around 5 o'clock in the evening, the cruise ship left the city of Juneau on time and continued north along the fjord waterway. According to the itinerary, the next stop should be a port called Skagway. It was just in time.
A waiter from the cruise ship restaurant came to the room to deliver food. Hong Tao wanted to know what there was to do in Skagway, so he tipped the waiter an extra US$10 and planned to let him introduce the sightseeing options in Skagway.
"Can we see the aurora without it?" Hong Tao was a little dissatisfied after listening to the young man's introduction about dog sledding, helicopter rides to see snow-capped mountains, small train rides and many other projects, but he did not mention the aurora.
"Aurora? No, the latitude here is not enough, it is difficult to see the aurora. If you want to see the aurora, you have to go to Anchorage or Fairbanks. It is winter there now, and there is ice on the sea, so cruise ships can't get through." The restaurant waiter said like
He looked at Hong Tao like a fool.
"Fuck! I was deceived again! This grandson!" Hong Tao stopped arguing with the waiter. After he left, he immediately took out his world travel brochure and flipped through the map of Alaska State.
He opened his eyes, threw the book away, and began to curse.
"Who lied to you? Did they overcharge us?" When Eileen heard that she had been cheated, she put down her knife and fork.
"You didn't cheat money. Alas, you can't count it as cheating us. Why didn't we look at the map carefully? This is not Alaska at all. It can't be said that it's not Alaska, but it's just not the real Alaska!" Hong Tao really suffered a dumb loss this time.
, he put the map in front of Irene, and then put the itinerary next to it for Irene to read by herself.
