7.19.2004
Ryan and I had a mini trip last weekend.
We drove Lefty's van, the "legendary" van, or "the thing" (what I usually call it) to Taitung, a country below Hualien.
Along the coast, the view was amazing...riding on the aged van was actually not too bad, even a luxury, in some odd way, when you can have one side of green high mountain and the deep blue pacific ocean on the other. We drove along the east coast, stopped at some nice spots, explored a little the little native downs....all nice, when the breezes came blowing on my faces, i felt like being in heaven...
The sun set, and we drove to Taitung city, it started to rain...in the rain we were lost in the streets of this not too busy town trying very hard to open our eyes and see if there were any sign of "Hotel"... People in Taitung could be so nice and friendly that they told ya everything about where to look for a nice hotels, and where to have fun. Yet, they could be extremely rude, too. One guy with driving his scooter with his helmet unlocked and his red betel nut mouth shouted to us "foxy ya!!!" just because we were slowing down looking for the hotel....
Hotel's settled...finally, me and ryan headed to the downtown center to check this cute tiny down. Taitung has changed so much since the last time i was there...well, it was about 3 years ago!! There are so much fun there now. Me and ryan found some cool t-shirts there...I love those tiny shops, they are so different and full of surprises! That night in the town was great! :)
But then , the second day, sunday, the day we headed home...our bad luck came...........
It was a rainy day.
Since we have taken the coastal high way coming to Taitung, we decided to take the mountain inland route back to hualien.....everything was fine, driving the van in the rainy day was actually pretty cozy, too., and the mountain in the rain was so unbelievably beautiful......
Until...the moment ryan said: "hun....funny, i couldn't feel the van moving forward...." And I looked at him and said:" what???" The van stopped........it was on the half way of a climbing bridge. Yup!! we were actually going backward for that moment instead of going forward..........
Oh no.....just when you think something bad couldn't possibly happen to ya, it simply got worse....the van wouldn't start again no matter how hard we tried...so we had to push it to the side of the busy high way....that's when it started to rain BIG!!! Poor ryan had to push it....
So anyways, we finally got the van in a good care, it's waiting to be fixed right now. Sounds like it wasn't a big problem at all...We decided to head home....hitch-hiking! :) Mm...that sounded fun, i think...whatever, nothing can be worse....
And just when we were riding by some nice dad who promised to take us to his town Yuli, I saw a familiar jeep rushing in front of us....."No way.." i told ryan " I think I just saw jackie's car..." So, I called her up, and found out it was her and her boyfriend. They were hurrying back to Hulaien from Kaoshiong.... There, they later "saved" us, and took us all the way back to Hualien....... Can you believe that???? That was actually the first time I ran into Jackie's car since she told me she bought a jeep last year.....
So, that was our mini trip to Taitung and "back"....guess it wasn't all that mini after all...plus i haven't added all those little Coinstances happened along the trip... ;P
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