Double-Dare Dating in Hualien and LuYe

2-16-16

When Ellen, George and the kids came over Friday, Ellen mentioned to Leona going together to Hua-Lien on the Feb. 28^th weekend; there is a holiday Monday, Feb. 29^th. Yesterday, Leona and Ellen were working out the plans for the two night stay-over; one night in a bed and breakfast, the other night in a spa hotel in Lu-Ye that her aboriginal classmate’s friend’s wife works at. We will go there Sunday, Feb 28^th via the north route by HSR and train and come back by train and HSR Tuesday, March 1^st in time for my 4:30pm class. 

3-2-16 6:37am Wed. (1) [entries from 2-28/29 and 3-1 are in Hayashi road journal]

      Like the photo selection I uploaded to Facebook that didn’t register, and the sixteen pages of three entries in the Hayashi road journal, the three days and two nights from Hualien and Luye I take back with Leona remain pleasantly in my mind; the same three days with George and Ellen, expunged. Not that my personal computer journal is pure; there are plenty of smudges in my life outlined here, but why rehash what has been written about? Suffice it to say, Leona and my trip, as good as it was, could have been even better if Ellen wasn’t the kind of person that she is, or if she wasn’t there at all. Read Hayashi if you want to know more.

      I took a taxi from the HSR station and arrived at American Eagle at 4:15pm, just in time for class. Leona got on the Taiwan Railroad local with Ellen and George, said goodbye to them at Taichung Station, and stayed on the train to go home. They waited there, unnecessarily, for ninety minutes, for their train back to Taoyuan. I heard George was exhausted when they arrived home, unnecessarily exhausted by his choice of discombobulated female companionship. The day he says, “Frankly, Ellen, I don’t give a damn,” should be one of the happiest days of his life. 

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