17 Jan 2017
Greetings from Kaohsiung, Taiwan !! I’m still jet-lagged but doing my best to pretend that I’m not !! Uncle Jason & Auntie Juline have been wonderfully welcoming … I could not have asked for a better welcome party. ;-D So far, we(/I)’ve done a little bit of this and little bit of that … karaoke, tai chi, Mandarin lessons (yikes!), biking, farming, painting the town red … here are some pixels ;-D …
I’m still horribly jetlagged and my Freddy Krueger Skin is the talk of the town (well not really but I do wish people would keep their thoughts about it to themselves … alas, I am in Taiwan … so it goes … ;-D).
The other day while I was wandering around, I came across a wee little bike shop which of course I had to check out !! The owner (/ manager?) Terry was a sweetheart … turns out he spent some time studying English in San Francisco ;-D … I bought a “H2O” bottle, asked about bike rental, tried out a used bike that he was willing to sell me (’twas a perfect fit !!). Upon my return “home” I bludgeoned my way thru a conversation with the apartment receptionist regarding bike parking … it was a clumsy discussion but we sorted out that if I bought a bike, I could park it near the scooters … good news … ;-D
The following day, I combed the neighborhood for a nearby bike rental station … asked a few unsure (optimistically helpful ;-D) peeps who kindly pointed around and told me “inggai keyi” (“you shoouuuld be able to”) … after searching for awhile I gave up on the idea of renting a bike and splurged on the purchase of Terry’s used bike …
Yeeeee-haaawww !! Yeeeeeahhhhhhh !! Provided that it doesn’t get stolen too quickly (it looks pretty grubby but rides well => perfect combo ;-D), I hope to have some fun on it !! I took it out for a few hours yesterday and had a blast !! I’ll probably give it away upon my departure in mid-Feb so if anyone (here in Kaohsiung ;-D) reading this is interested in having it, please let me know … I’ll aim to take some snaps of it at some point !! ;-D