Back on the Long Haul Trucker

Richard was able to get away from his Mr. Mom duties long enough for us to go on a short ride. He didn’t want to take the ride to FangLiao which is the equivalent of riding to KenTing but not having to ride home again: about 110Km. So we went in the general direction and went up along a river to a place I knew we could jump in and cool off.

First of course we stopped for breakfast across from PingTung Technical University and enjoyed the scenery while we ate. As it is a usual stop we chatted with the owners and they wondered where Johnny was. At school of course, but I promised to bring him in again soon. My son: the chick magnet.

We arrived at the river and sat in the water while solving the problems of the world. The temperature was just right, not too cold yet cool enough to lower the body temperature from riding. And the sun was warm enough to give Richard a little sunburn.


Upon leaving I wanted to check out the other fork of the river to see what improvements had been made. I didn’t want to go far as the road starts climbing away from the river quite radically after a little ways. We saw some people following the river on the right side past where the road goes over a bridge and continues on the left (and proceeds to start climbing) so we followed them. In doing so we found the river had been dammed up creating a beautiful swimming hole. We stayed there and swam for another hour, talking with some of the other swimmers and a cyclist. This has turned out to be a new destination that can be accessed by both bicycle and motorcycle, even a car. Hopefully it is not too far for Johnny to ride to. I will remember to take pictures of the good swimming hole next time……..