Passing car inspection/Carlos Pueblo

Passing car inspection/Carlos Pueblo

Before going to the community center for my language class, I took

my 20 years Q45 to the garage for inspection in order to purchase

a n annual tax sticker. It is a current stress issue of my daily life. I

don’t drive so much as my younger year; however, I still like to keep

this vehicle for my tennis games and some other errand. We moved

the vehicle from Arthur’s primary use to work. Moved Michelle’s

07 Camry back home for him, Michelle took 13 Maxima, and Amy got

a brand new Camry to satisfy the car need. I don’t mind to have this

old one instead of waiting on the line to use available one on the

driveway.

The issue is that the old vehicle has an engine light on problem. We

paid money to replace a new starter and the light was off; however,

the owner indicated the knock sensors, connection, and both intake

gaskets needed to be replaced as well. I was advised to watch the

Youtube video to see the complicated job. After 150 miles driving,

the engine light hasn’t been back; therefore, I return to the garage

for exhaust inspection and I pass. I bought the sticker immediately

and put away my stress away one more year.

During the weekend, I noticed the air condition of the vehicle was gone

for the first time. It doesn’t bother me at all because I can still open the

window on the driver’s side for air. I feel more confidence when I march

to the bus stop for my long haul transportation to the airports.

漸入佳境/莊峻華

漸入佳境/莊峻華

昨日攜老車上車行，年檢排氣管廢氣濃度，德州交通安全，規

定甚多，日本製品，廢氣本非問題，主要是顯示盤內，不許紅

燈出現，上次紅燈是，引擎發動器，換新後，紅燈消失，但師

傅告曰，需開120哩後，電池運作，始能恢復正常，若檢示盤

無紅燈始能檢驗，檢驗及格，始能購買一年汽車稅，通行許可

，為此驗氣，急死老人，前日，再攜鋁梯到明雄府採柿，開上

一百二十哩，心想紅燈不亮，應可送車檢驗矣。

其實，老車引擎內，活塞撞擊控制器和連接器，小電腦說有問

題，若要換新修理，整個引擎要拆解，大工程約一千六美元，

連車行老闆皆曰不值，這變成我之焦慮，此車棄之可惜，而且

我也需要開車打網球，家裏每車，均是專人專用，好像載鋁梯

，則需此笨重老車，打開天窗，塞入車內，否則需要小卡車，

家中並無小卡車之需要。

檢查通過前日，老車冷氣機，，告老返鄉，我也無所謂，此車

開不動後，就贈送給有用者，我大概也無需開車，長途者，若

機塲搭機，我可以搭免費巴士，更令我愉快，我之老年生活，

真是漸入佳境，此頭疼老車，可以再拖一年。

Marching to Clifton Suspension Bridge with Sheila/Carlos Pueblo

Marching to Clifton Suspension Bridge with Sheila/Carlos Pueblo

A smiling pretty young lady ran into me in front of a restaurant by

the Floating Harbor across a small statue of Captain Cabot across

the water. She asked me if I was from the Rock & Bowl, the hostel.

She saw me at the kitchen and I asked her where she is going to.

Clifton Suspension Bridge here we came, marching to the Avon

Gorge with Sheila, a Spanish girl just finished her English project and

going home to the Southern Spain on that evening. She was equipped

with an i-phone and I thought that I could manage the long distance

march.

We’re on the west direction toward the Clifton Village on the River.

During the wind power sail era, Captain Cabot had moved half a

million from the City Center of Bristol to the America, we called it

the British Slave Trade in history, of course, there were some other

ports to be functioned for such purposes such as Liverpool, etc. Even

though she had the GPS and I had a city map, I still was accustomed

to ask people on the streets to make sure our direction. We passed

by the famous ocean liner sail with the city’s name now a museum

by the river bank and a bridge to be across to the north bank in order

to get up to the hill like gorge to reach the Suspension Bridge.

We passed by a hilly subdivision of Clifton Village and we were very

close. The suspension bridge is not in a big scale like the San Francisco’s

and yet very scary if we looked down to the river bottom. Pedestrians

are allowed to walk across freely yet the vehicles are under control of

numbers to limit the weight burden of the bridge. We walked across to

the southern end and came right back to enter the beautiful green park

with a pretty church and an Observatory on the Observatory Hill. We

went directly downhill toward the Brandon Hill and I encouraged her to

climb up to the Cabot Tower and see the entire city.

I brought her to the Palestine Museum to have a vegan plate for a late

Lunch. She has been a vegetarian practitioner for years. I gave her Neal

Barnard’s Reversed Diabetes for a future reference on vegie diet. She

took me to a mall for some table tennis, Ping Pong. I wished I knew that

I would play with a pretty girl with a strong back hand during these days.

Sheila is one of my adopted daughter during these 4 weeks stay in England.

克利夫頓吊橋行/莊峻華

克利夫頓吊橋行/莊峻華

克利夫頓吊橋，建設在阿豐河峽上，附近有彩色峭壁，遠處可

看到懸褂橋落，我在一河畔餐廳出來，遇見一年輕貌美女郎，

對我微笑曰，是客棧來者，原來早餐相遇廚房，席拉小姐，在

英國南部工作結束，準備傍晚搭機回西班牙南部故鄉，今日準

備參觀吊橋，我問是否讓我跟隨？於是就成，克利夫頓吊橋，

隨美女席拉行，她隨時翻閱手機，因此我無需看市圖。

我們啟行位置，應該是浮動碼頭附近，就在卡布特船長小銅像

對岸，離那艘古帆船布里斯妥號博物館不遠，經過帆船，過門

而不入，然後一路問路，走向西方，遇見一群中國女遊客，詢

彼是否從吊橋來？曰走路十五分鐘可達。繼續西行上坡，經過

滾石住宅區，一先生滑手機，指示方向，也遇見愛犬女主人，

也肯定方向，吊橋就在小丘山坡，旁邊是一美麗公園，有一觀

望台，一美麗之大教堂，我們走過吊橋，再順路走回，穿過公

園，然後就是下坡，走回市區。

先達布蘭登山公園，我鼓勵席拉登上卡布特塔，我就在塔下座

椅等候，前日我在雨中登樓，感慨萬千，是有書中登岳陽樓之

感，我解釋卡布特船長，帶來布市之歴史。我們穿過市中心，

回到客棧附近之巴勒斯坦餐廳，她是長年素食者，答應閱讀我

介紹尼爾巴納德之反糖尿病素食之說法。飯後，她尚有時間，

帶我到大商場二樓打乒乓球，她有一強勁之反手，我答應回家

後，開始增加乒乓運動，她答應當我女兒，我真是老來運轉，

這次英國行，我收了四位女兒，將一一介紹。

席拉準備當學校體育老師，據說需要再讀研究所，我相信她可

以達到目標，也祝福她，一切順利，也感謝她一直和我通信。

Palestine Museum of Bristol, England/Carlos Pueblo

Palestine Museum of Bristol, England/Carlos Pueblo

Palestine Museum of Bristol, England is a very small function yet

with a significant mark on the map. It is located outside of the

St. John on the Wall not far from my hostel and the Castle Park of

the Old City. I was curious when passing by and entered for a visit.

The Museum is on the 2^nd floor and the first floor is a vegan restaurant.

The museum is only open during the weekend while the restaurant

Is open four hours a day. After listening to my visiting purpose, the

restaurant owner invited me to go up stair to visit the facility. After

the brief visit of the museum, I came back to the restaurant and chatted

with the employee about the reverse osmosis apparatus of their new

purchase for the making of a Japanese Kombucha tea which took a while

for me to figure out what it was.

I guess that the young lady up stair is a teacher of a day care center and

the museum is a community center during the weekend. I saw some

chairs for children and books on the shelves. I greeted the young lady

in Spanish after I learned that she just came from Spain. I didn’t stay

very long because that the facility was very different in what I thought

of a museum. I came down to the restaurant to continue my conversation

of reverse osmosis with the owner. I have had some experience of selling

and serving the filter since 1992. I also fully understand the principle of

the purification of such drinking water. They were surprised that an old

oriental guy walked in and talked about the reverse osmosis in confidence.

They are making the Kombucha, a kind of fermented tea with some alcohol

content and strange sour taste. Eventually, I find out that is a  tea of sea

weed. Kombu is sea weed in Japanese and cha is the tea. It might have

something with Manchuria because it is also called on that name. It is

costed 2 British Pounds for a small bottles. Jars of fermented products are

stored on the shelves of the restaurant. I had had three vegan meals during

my stay in Bristol.

One day, I went to the Clifton Suspension Bridge with Sheila and took her

to the museum restaurant for a plate of vegan food. She is a vegetarian

and enjoyed it. On the next day, I tried to inform the owner what I found

on the Kanji edition of Kombucha; however, I missed my afternoon partner

and the next day was my day of checking out. I left before the restaurant’s

open schedule.  

巴勒斯坦博物館/莊峻華

巴勒斯坦博物館/莊峻華

剛到布利斯妥客棧，經過巴勒斯坦博物館，是一微小兩層樓房，

就在聖約翰教堂，城牆拱橋一端，一日行軍城內回來，路過好奇

入內，博物館僅週末開放，樓下素食餐廳，聞我興趣後，邀請我

上樓參觀，原來是一托兒所，有些兒童閱讀書籍，顯然有些巴勒

斯坦文化收集，管理小姐剛上任，可能是托兒所教師，教授阿拉

伯語文，我未多留，下樓後，和店主人聊天，他正在研究如何安

裝逆滲透過濾器，是裝置在水台下，和我販賣之桌型裝置有異，

但我仍可解釋逆滲透之學理，餐廳準備利用淨水，釀製昆布茶，

我看架上置放一整排產品，顯然銷售量大，我喝一小瓶，要價兩

英鎊。

昆布茶，是日語發音，酸味有酒精，我回客棧後先查英文版曰，

滿州茶，顯然在中國東北開發，店東也不知何物？第四日，我按

日音翻譯，找到漢字昆布茶，然後豁然開朗，餐廳只售純素食，

我曾採用該素食法七年，圖逆轉糖尿病不果。

連續三夜素食，第三夜邀請西班牙素食愛女席拉共餐，她不喝昆

布茶，但曾索尼爾巴那特醫生之純素食暢銷書名，離客棧前，想

通知餐廳該茶真名真意，但餐廳尚未開張，也不知何年何日，得

以重訪。

Visiting Bristol, England/Carlos Pueblo

Visiting Bristol, England/Carlos Pueblo

Bristol is located on the southwest of England, a lovely city rich in

history. I was recommended by a local guest at Manchester hostel

kitchen and sanctioned by Pei-ven at Birmingham to make such visit.

I came to hostel through a river bank to the Castle Park and got lost

at the hilly alley nearby. On the second day, I marched to the City Center

to visit significant view of the city; then on the third day, Sheila took me

to the famous Clifton Suspension Bridge; on the fourth day, I accompanied

Dorien to register to her physician and to visit the city Library.

A gentleman advised me take the river bank to the Castle Park due to the

new construction on main streets. The river bank is called the floating

harbor, one of the two rivers concurrent at the city and the other is the

River Avon. It was very busy traffic during the wind sails time of Europe

to the rest of the world. The ocean liners could follow the rivers to the

city. Captain Cabot and his colleges had shipped more than half a million

slaves from here to America. I reached to the Castle Park, a small park still

preserved the original Castle of a lower rank of Royalty and a lovely park

with an extension of castle wall to the streets where I got lost. My hostel

is on the corner of a church called St. John on the Wall, there is actually a

wall on a side of the church. There is a Palestine Museum caught my eyes.

Several Chinese restaurants and grocery stores are located near the hostel.

I marched to the City Center on the next morning through the Old City, a

very well maintained city square with several erected persons of distinguish.

I saw my first view of plaque of memorial of local to the Burma Conflict

1941-1945. It has reminded me many things of the historical study of myself

about that conflict involving the British, American, and Chinese forces versus

the Japanese Imperial Army. Japanese was one against three at that time.

Then, I came to the floating harbor again and visited the beautiful College

Green surrounded by the beautiful Bristol Cathedral, Central Library, the

City Hall, the University of Bristol Tower, and the Bristol Museum & Art

Gallery.

It was raining, yet my march went on. I reached the top of the Cabot Tower on

the Brandon Hill. It is a huge park with green everywhere. Captain Cabot was

the famous British slave trade figure. I am going to travel to the Caribbean

again very soon and I’ll have an additional knowledge of the previous slave

trade history. The figure of Bristol only was 500,000 plus.