For better or worse, I’ve developed a habit of writing some notes after each of my holiday trips. I probably have less to say about this particular trip than usual and I’m been so busy at work handing over my job to the new hire that I’ve only been able to work on this in fits and starts, but I’ll do my best anyway:
- This was a family trip. The original plan was to travel together with Shan’s parents, sort of as a filial gesture I guess. But then Shan’s mother started invited her friends along from her choir group, all elderly women. That made us a group totaling eight people. Some of the most amusing things about the trip involved interactions with these friends, but it would be rude to recount them in a public blog. Suffice to say that contrary to my fears, they were more pleasant company than expected and Shan and I were largely left to our own devices.
- Shan was in charge of organizing the trip and had found us a driver / tour guide through a travel forum. We basically hired him to drive us around the northern part of Taiwan for four days, leaving the last two days for us to wander around Tapei on our own. This made the first part of our stay more of an extended road trip and was a bit too sedentary for my tastes, but given the company we had, it couldn’t be helped.