I finally got a bicycle!
It's so nice to be able to go farther and faster, let me tell ya.
Its opened up a whole new world of endless possibilities:
• faster travels to the train station and back (instead of a 20-25 minute walk).
• faster trips to the marketplaces (instead of a 30 minute walk).
• faster trips to the "walmart" look-a-like in town (instead of a 35 minute walk).
• back-and-forth from the school in under a minute (instead of a 5 minute walk).
• good workout.
More possibilities will reveal themselves over time I'm sure.
In searching for a bicycle I was on the hunt for an orange one.
Taiwan has orange everything so I was positive they would have one just soaked in orange goodness.
Nothin.
So I had to settle for a black one with a hint of orange which in the end is ok.
Stanley (our supervisor at school who speaks both fluent english and chinese) wrote a note for us saying: "We're here to buy bikes. Can you help us?"...and from there on it was pretty much just point-and-go. Very easy.
Employees helping with getting the bikes down from the rack. Had to pull the ladder out from the back dungeons of the store and walk it to the bike section. I'm sure they were thinking: "These white people are pushin it..."
Buy Buy Buy.
Haven't had a bike since my mission in the AZ.
At first it took me right back to being a missionary again...but then I realized no ones screaming from their cars "CRAZY MORMONS!!" (language has been cleaned up)...so all is well.
Actually I miss the screamers too...they were funny.
2 comments:
All you need is a couple of Book of Mormons and a nametag, and you can get some of those same comments going again. Or maybe you just need to wear a Romney Campaign pin.
Great post Son.
craigley, remember a few blog posts ago when you showed us the crazy intersections/drivers in taiwan? where's your HELMET?! please say you have one.
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