Hike to Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum

  One thing that is different this year from last year is the guy time on campus. Chad, Mac, and I are spending 2 - 3 hours, every other Saturday, to hang out with students.  Two weeks ago we went for a hike up to Sun Yat-sen mausoleum who is some what of a hero to the Chinese.  I've attached a quick bio from Wikipedia so you know who he is.  We also had a visitor in Brett Hildreth who was traveling around China on business, with IBM, and wanted to check out what we were doing in Nanjing.  Meeting him could be a whole other blog entry as it was extremely strange how close he and his wife paralleled Sharolyn and my life.   Anyway, enclosed are some pictures as well as the bio on Dr. Sun Yat-sen.

Sun Yat-sen (12 November 1866 – 12 March 1925)^[1] was a Han Chinese doctor, revolutionary and political leader. As the foremost pioneer of Nationalist China, Sun is frequently referred to as the "Father of the Nation" (國父), a view agreed upon by both the People's Republic of China^[2] and the Republic of China.^[3] Sun played an instrumental role in the overthrow of the Qing dynasty during the Xinhai Revolution. Sun was the first provisional president when the Republic of China was founded in 1912 and later co-founded the Kuomintang (KMT) where he served as its first leader.^[4] Sun was a uniting figure in post-Imperial China, and remains unique among 20th century Chinese politicians for being widely revered amongst the people from both sides of the Taiwan Strait.