H.O.S.P. I

When I first moved to Taichung Aaron and I would sit around drinking Yan Jing Beer- remember that one?- straight out of the can- a RED one at that. God we were cheap. Anyway, one afternoon we wanted to know what the tiniest, smallest, most inhospitable places on Earth were. So we did. (Hat's off to Kevlar for making language so simple) Well, we found a few before moving on to the next thing. Here's one of the first in our History Of Small Places series- Kerguelen Island, a lumpy, barren, windswept, glaciated and fjorded rock that eventually landed its' namesake in prison for stretching the truth as to the potential of his discovery.