The captain related an old yarn.

I felt like such a wimp, sitting there with my MacBook and a 2 percent, decaf latte.

The scrubland I'd be crossing looked desolate, but at least it wasn't a desert.

Li Yuan-hung was to assume the generalissimoship. ... Looking back at the chaos of the time, and the childish solution to the controversy of the generalissimoships as if we were playing a game of chess, it was indeed laughable.