Rice Paddy and Rice Paddy with Old Building

This is the ride home from Changhua to Taichung. The price of rice, wheat and other food staples has risen and continues to rise a lot. Here the answer to the high prices is very Capitalist. Plant more rice. This is a common field of rice seen all over Taiwan. In some areas of the country farmers, really small farmers, plant only 1 time a year. In other areas they plant up to 4 times a year. The dark green rice paddies are very beautiful.

Another Wonderful Sunday Morning Trip - Oyster Beds

The sticks show where the oysters are.



I have started to really love these little trips with Annie on Sunday mornings. Really fun exploring the area on scooter. Scooters are really fun. If you get the opportunity, try one out.

Back to the Sunday morning, it's like the weekend is extended another day.

Couple of oyster workers walking on the flats. I do love the oysters here.
Honey and I, with lighthouse in the background.

Here are some movies of our early morning scooter trip to the oyster beds in Changhua County along the Taiwan Straight. The first one at night is the bridge I have to cross when I go to Changhau from Taichung. The rest of the videos are of the oyster farmers going to work. I suggest watching them all in a row. They're pretty interesting. I would have made one movie but it'd take too long to download.

Sunday Morning Ride

The hippy couple. I wear the orange jacket so I can be seen on my scooter.

I decided to do something different this morning. Now that the weather is warming it's nice to take a morning scooter ride. So I took the back roads to Changhua (from Taichung) and picked up my wife. We went to see the blooming flower fields but they were changed to rice paddies. I guess the price of rice is up (maybe because of the food to gasoline process going on now?).

Scooter Accident in Front of our Apartment

Scary, scary and more scary. This just happened a few minutes ago.

I drive a scooter almost every day. It's the way to get around most of Taiwan. In the largest cities, Taipei and Kaoshone, you can use the mass transit mostly because they have an MRT. But here in central Taiwan, I have to use a scooter.

Today I'll drive from Taichung to Changhua, about an hour and ten minute drive. I will have my 360 degree sensors on but what can you do if someone just smashes into you?

This is what happens after a scooter accident. It looks like a van didn't stop and hit the scooter which had the right of way. It's the first day of Chinese New Year holiday and everyone is trying to get home for dinner tonight - including me.

Vacation to Taroko National Park

This is Taroko Gorge National Park. What a place. We went there as part of our winter break \ Lunar New Year trip. Good fun!

Rain wasn't too bad especially if you're equiped with a plastic baggie rain coat (it came with the scooter). The flip flops or slippers weren't a probelem up to this point. I changed here because of the cold.

We took a scooter ride to Taroko Gorge National Park. It was really awesome to be on the scooter. Almost like riding on a "real" motorcycle. We rented the scooters so they were new and in good shape. Taroko is one of the most beautiful places in the world.

This shine was built to honor those who died building the road. I think there were 80 or so who died.This is one of the higher cliffs in Taroko.