9-28-13 8:25pm Sat. (1)
I took a
long bike ride this morning and discovered the Taichung Airport terminal. I
took the Han River bike path through Tan-Zih to the Sugar Cane bike path to
highway #10 west and rode another 5km-3 mi. up a hill to make a right turn to
special route 10 to the airport terminal. I chained the bike to a nearby pole
and walked a few minutes into the terminal. It took about 1 hour 10 minutes to
get there, about 25 km- 15 miles, the same distance as from Sheepshead Bay,
Brooklyn to JFK Airport, but one could never ride a bicycle to the JFK airport;
it’s too large and there are no bike paths. The Taichung Airport is one
terminal building off a simple four lane two-way street, not a limited access
highway. Furthermore, I can chain my bike to a pole and I think it will be
still there when I get back; no such luck in Queens, NY.
I will ride the
bike to the airport next Saturday morning on my way to take a flight to Hong
Kong to visit Ariel. The flight leaves at 8:30am so I should get to the
terminal by 7am, I think. I’ll have to be on my bike by 6am to go there. I’m
not going by bike to the airport to save money though a taxi would cost perhaps
450NT ($15us) and it’s an 18km (11mi) ride from Taichung Train station and it
takes 36min, according to Taxi Auto Fare Website, if they don’t rip you off. I
think it would be a nice experience; the bike paths are right-of-way and
beautiful. Coming home, I’d be riding at 11pm at night. I have to be careful of
the dozen parts of the path they scraped and left raw instead of resurfacing
them immediately; typical half-assed Taiwan workmanship.
Today I rode
almost three hours on the bike! The longest ride I have ever taken, longer than
the 26 mile NYC marathon. I did this with a painful left wrist that made it
hard to grip the handlebar. I was exhausted but satisfied when I arrived home.
I had a slight headache after a while which could have been from heatstroke or
from the trouble with the new dining area ceiling light we were having
installed.
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