good morning Taiwan!
welcome to day 5 of our Taiwan cycling trip
yesterday we started our ride from Hualien to Taitung
we're cycling along the Taiwan east coast
from north to south
we had a long ride yesterday
we had a bit of rain and some mountains to climb
we arrived at our hotel at about 6:30pm
we were really cold from the rain
so we took a hot shower and fell asleep right away
it's about 7:30 right now in the morning
and we finally got some daylight
there's no rain currently
lots of room for our bikes in this hotel
about a thousand Taiwanese dollars ($30 USD)
pretty good price considering the space
we had some bad rain last night
these pannier bags have been pretty good so far, but they're not waterproof
some water did enter in the bottom..
we wrapped our stuff in extra plastic bags, so no problem
nice big bathroom
we washed all of our clothes
everything's nice and dry now
got nice sunny weather outside
today's breakfast... rice porridge?
snacks to mix with it
so I was wrong about the weather
we are gonna get a little bit of rain
hopefully just a little bit..
nice and cool out right now
it was really hot when we started yesterday..
believe we're starting our ride with
jackets today but that's the amazing
range of temperatures you experience
riding here in the mountains I guess one
minute you're really hot another minute
you're freezing we're about to begin our
ride about 90 kilometers today if
everything goes according to plan
bikes are packed waterproof cases are
over the bags sometimes ago yup
absolutely beautiful area where we
stayed at last night we couldn't see the
view last night because it was really
dark but it's all like this along this
straight on the East Coast beautiful
misty mountains another great thing is
the canopy trees on these roads so this
roads a bit wider but on the more narrow
roads you get some really nice canopy
trees and in any case they're just nice
trees lined along the road with this
nice wide bike path next to the main
road beautiful nice cool breeze right
now no rain yet
and always random interesting colorful
buildings
decided to write on the sandals today
just in case it rains our shoes are
still wet from yesterday and these tend
to do the job pulley kit it up with
sandals
found combini stocking up on some bread
for the road ahead just in case sports
drink and we found a hamburger shop
right next door as well so we're getting
some hamburgers looks good oh she's so
named happy old this bread also looks
really good
watch this on it good little break
great little burger actually was pretty
big burger and back on the road
one that was about 30 time when these
dollars mine was about 50 so about $1
dollar 15 not too bad but supposedly
these keep you really dry and I don't
want to be wet all day like yesterday
we've been getting hammered with rain
and the ridiculous headwinds for about
20 kilometers so far taking shelter for
a bit gonna rest eat some snacks in this
covered basketball court
we're about halfway done with today's
ride stopping at another convenience
store getting a nice warm beverage to
warm up still lots of rain outside but
lots of people cheering us on every
everyone so we get someone who screams
at us like Jo which is pretty good nice
and encouraging anyway continuing on
with today's right
so it's been this situation for the
entire ride so far we've got about 25 K
to go from about 90 total today it
started raining about five kilometres in
it's been like this the entire way
nothing we can do about push through it
and to Hung's of being a big trooper she
said that after this ride she'll never
want to ride in the rain again bikes are
holding up great the rentals we got from
giant hopefully our equipment is doing
good inside feet are doing good since we
were wearing our waterproof shoes really
glad we bought these things these rain
jackets sorry we don't have any better
footage to show you guys but let's keep
pushing through 25 more k to go and then
we'll return these bikes with the giant
shop we just finished our ride down to
the Thai Tony I think Tony had a fun
time
oh good experience
we're gonna turn back in the bikes to
giant right now so a great program we
rented these in Hua Lian and we're
returning them down here in Titan's so
great service well it's got a some
Giants thanks for carrying us around
we were really worried if our luggage
was gonna make it here or not we sent it
aboard the train so I guess you can send
luggage from train station to train
station it's really cheap it only cost
about 150 Taiwanese dollars which is
like four or five bucks we said both of
our giant luggages you can see here from
Hualien to tae yong station so we cycled
here the last two days and we're really
hoping that these were gonna be here
when we got here and they are thankfully
we just picked up our luggage so one
less thing to worry about now if we're
gonna take a taxi back to the hotel and
dry off
we made it to our hostel safely all our
clothes are hung up to dry we're really
hungry though so we're gonna get some
food before we show you guys the hostel
I'm thinking beef noodles after a long
hard day in the saddle in the cold rain
nothing beats a hot bowl of noodles and
meat and we've got so got some egg here
is love really excited for this meal got
some lemonade and some vegetables and
tofu to mix it up
I think Jones also pretty excited for
today's meal
Palomar Atacama
next stop after dinner is dessert in
Japanese we say pizza bara which means
separate stomach there's always room for
dessert
we've got one of each of the two main
desserts here this is a hot kind of bean
soup here and it mix with all these I
think they're kind of like potato balls
the nuts looks really good and then we
got the cold one here red beans and
looks like there's some sweet noodles in
here as well and some ice looking
forward to both of these documents Jones
busy getting our Instagram photo round
three of dinner dessert dinner I
promised oiling that we get some meat so
we got some got some fried chicken
so tongues reward for a hard day in the
saddle in the rain and also some healthy
fries a healthy dinner crowd I want need
you
I saw tiny ketchup it they never give
you catch up in Japan unless you ask for
it but here in Taiwan they they know
it's up so they give it to you right
away we're gonna enjoy our nice little
meal here this is about 125 Taiwanese
dollars so not great not bad but anyway
eats a turkey much
finished with our food for today heading
back to our hostel we're back in the
rain there was a really bad typhoon in
the south side of Taiwan and apparently
it's still back or another one came and
it's not looking very good on the radar
we haven't decided our plan for tomorrow
yet this is our last hotel we have books
for right now so we need to figure out
where we're gonna go we were thinking to
go to Titan next but we're not sure if
the bad weather is going to stretch
there if it is we might as well jump all
the way back up to Taipei so we're gonna
figure that out
tonight once we get back to the hotel so
here's our hostel that we're staying up
for tonight
pretty cool place they get a nice little
table and common room area unfortunately
with the typhoon going on in this area
it doesn't seem like there's many people
out tonight but thanks again for joining
along on today's ride watching today's
video if you've watched to the end sorry
we didn't have too much beautiful
scenery to show you guys today but if
you didn't watch a part one of this
video yet where we cycle the first half
down to Titan from hua Lian make sure to
go check that out and you can also check
out the rest of our videos from our
playlist here from our time in Taiwan
this time and also I was here before so
I've got some other Taiwan videos as
always thanks for watching and we'll see
you next time here on to go cruise