Scooter trip - Day 3 - He Huan Shan To Hualien

I woke up to a sunny day. 

I write I because my father was still asleep.

 I put on my clothes and went outside.

The air was fresh and I wanted to climb a mountain top. And so I did that. 

I made it to this top and from up there I could see for miles and miles.

I wasn't alone.

Here is a kind of a panoramic photo of the valley that we had outside our hotel window.

This was the road that we came in on.

It would also become the road that we would use leaving.

 Some mandatory "Been there done that" photos.

I didn't want to miss out on breakfast so I made it down to the hotel again. 

My father was still asleep so I had my breakfast by myself and when I was done I went up to the room to wake him up. 

He woke up happy as a can be and after he had had his breakfast we started for Hualien.

But first we made some friends.

Most of the people I talked to didn't speak English so I had plenty of opportunities to practice my Chinese.

And then it was time for the road.

We had some breaks.

Sitting on a scooter for that long makes your butt hurt after a while.

I have a remote control for my camera.

And yes... Those are my fathers teeth.

Lower and lower we came.

I never did see the monkeys but I heard them and I did see the trees move.

Often when I travel by myself I end up with no photos of myself. Well on this trip I had my dad with me.

We came to an old tree.

A rest stop in the clouds.

And another one below the clouds.

We came to a tribal village. There we had some food and my dad bought a little souvenir. It was a key chain canoe.

On and on we went until we came to Taroko gorge.

Its one of the places to visit if you do go to Taiwan.

After Taroko gorge we came to this Buddhist temple. 

There we had time to contemplate upon things that were important to us. Upon life in general.

There we had time to send out a prayer to whatever might be out there.

I went for a walk. There was a bell tower up along a mountain track.

But first you had to cross this bridge.

I made it there by myself.

It was all quiet but for a whole bunch of frogs in a pond. As soon as I came close to the pond the frogs went quiet though.

I struck the bell a couple of times and then I headed back.

There was something special with that place but I can not put my FINGER upon it.

Well we did leave that peaceful place in the end and we made it to Hualien.

There we had some food at the local Night Market.

Yes... I was tired.

Back at the hotel there was an electric guitar...

I played and sang and my audience was made up by my dad and the owner of the place.

We had a really nice evening together.

We both fell asleep to the sound of waves that night.

To Be Continued...

Now to something I feel very strongly about but I leave for you to make up your own mind about. 

GMO

Here is a YouTube video that talks about the topic. Its a little bit more than 1 hour but its well worth seeing. It might change the way you live your life...

Trailer: Seeds of Death

Full Movie

Stay awake. 

Love Ove.