what's going on guys - Two Wheel Cruise here
finally just arrived in Taipei last night
and got in late so
I went to bed right away I didn't go out and check out anything
and today we just woke up
we're gonna go get some breakfast and
today's also an exciting day because we'll be
be meeting my wife here in Taiwan
so those of you who are followers of this channel know that
me and my wife have been sort of separated
she's been in Vietnam the last few weeks and I've been in Japan
so we're finally going to be reunited
she doesn't get here until later tonight so we won't be seeing her for a little bit
but first I'm really hungry, so let's go got some breakfast
I cannot emphasize enough how excited I am to be back here in Taiwan
especially here at Taipei in the Ximen area
when I did my Taiwan cycling trip about a year and a half ago
this is where I was saying this is where I was based at and
at the end of my trip I found this awesome breakfast restaurant
I think the name is Yonghe Chinese Type Breakfast
they specialize in their soy milk so I've got some sugarless soy milk
really excited to try this out
actually let's try it out now..
I'm a big fan of soy milk especially no sugar soy milk
I asked for hot, but they gave me cold..
It's kinda hot outside though, so I won't complain..
they also specialize in Taiwanese breakfast which it's just my favorite kind of breakfast..
I love breakfast food, especially this kind of food..
egg sandwiches and bread
anyway, let's start eating!
It's a bit loud in here, so we'll continue later
so that breakfast was awesome
I'm walking along the streets here at Ximen
lots of great memories
lots of places I used to visit..
I want to eat everything, but I need to restrain myself..
myself a little bit so my wife's getting
My wife gets in later tonight and I have some free time now
next, we're gonna get some bubble tea!
this suitcase is a bit annoying though..
thankfully it's not raining anymore
I actually woke up earlier this morning
I was going to rent a city bicycle and go for a ride around Taipei city
but it was raining and so I just went back to bed
I came back out now and there are still rain clouds, but fortunately no rain
hopefully it doesn't start raining anytime soon
anyway, next is bubble tea!
I'm going to visit one of my favorite bubble tea places and hopefully it's still there..
thank you
so I found the bubble tea shop
as they say in Japanese they call this tapioca juice
they say juice instead of tea
they flavor I got is black sesame
it's the main reason I came to this shop, because this flavor is a bit more difficult to find
the last time I was here I fell in love with this tea..
I was really lucky
they only sell this during limited hours
I would have been really disappointed if they didn't have that flavor
It's a bit quieter here so hopefully we can talk a bit
I want to talk about our plans for our Taiwan Trip
later today we'll meet my wife at the airport
We're going to Hualien tonight
on the east side of Taiwan
actually in Taiwan right now there's a typhoon in the South
We hope this doesn't affect our plans..
we'll meet at the airport
hopefully, she can enter through immigration
it's my wife's first time to go to a new country outside of Japan and Vietnam
it's really hard for Vietnamese people to get a visa to go anywhere but
supposedly because she has her Japanese resident card she's able to come visit Taiwan
so we're hoping crossing our fingers that she won't experience any
difficulties and going through immigration
and then we're gonna hop on the high-speed train over to the east side of Taiwan to Hualien
and there we're gonna be cycling a little bit
there's a really big national park there (Taroko National Park)
really beautiful area we're really excited to go check it out but also
really hoping for some good weather
we've got some bicycle rentals lined up through Giant Bike Co
bikes lined up and we're just hoping for
So I'm in Ximen right now
I've got some time
the first two things that I wanted to eat was the Taiwanese Breakfast / soy milk combo and bubble tea
breakfast you saw earlier cost about 85 Taiwanese dollars
which is less than three dollars USD
u.s. dollars which is really good and
this bubble tea on the other hand is quite expensive this was about 65 dollars
you're better off getting the breakfast
the regular just milk tea bubble tea is usually cheaper though
these are 2 things I really like about Taiwan
there are more things I want to eat, but I'm waiting for my wife to arrive
I'll try to keep my rambling short today..
I wasn't planning to make a video today, but I though it would be useful to talk more about our plan
I mentioned we're going to the east side to Hualien we're gonna stay there for a couple days
Hopefully ride into the Taroko national park
Then we're planning to ride our bikes South from Hualien to Taitung
which is about a 170km ride
split that up in two days on the rental bikes
as long as it's not raining too bad
if it rains, we'll still ride..
my wife's never really cycled in the rain..
so she might not be too happy..
that's our plan..
but it may change depending on the weather and the typhoon
because of the way we're traveling I'm
not sure how quick we're gonna be able to edit videos while we're cycling between cities
we're going to ship my computer and our big luggage via train post
so I won't be able to edit videos during most of the first week..
worst case scenario, we'll just edit these after the trip..
So our updates may not be very frequent for the first few weeks
I'm going to enjoy the rest of my bubble tea now.. See you at the airport
here we are checking it at the Taipei Airport
it's about a 45-minute train ride from the city center to the airport
I've actually been here for a while I've
been working on editing our website
we've been making a lot of videos lately on YouTube and I haven't been updating the blog so
I had some time to kill while we were waiting here so I've been updating the blog
if you haven't checked out our website go check it out
Just got a message from Thuong, she's made it to the aiport
she's able to contact me
she's in line now to go through immigration we're hoping that her immigration papers will
work out and that she'll be able to get through she doesn't speak Chinese she doesn't speak much English
so hopefully she can work that out
anyway I'm at the arrival gates now waiting for her to come out
gotta keep tunnel so just kidding
was in the toilet myself and then she called me while I was in the bathroom
I had no idea that she went through the line so quick
because it took me like 45 minutes to
get there and get my luggage yesterday and she came through so quick
Found Thuong-chan!
made it to the train station
buy a single ticket or you can get a
sort of IC card that you can charge
I had a nice IC card or an easy card for my last Taiwan trip
and just bought a new one for Thuong
the new card has a different design
we've arrived at taipei station
pretty massive station
after a long train ride we finally arrived in Hualien
that's really strange they got bikes
parked here at the train station
it's the first time I've seen bikes in the train station at the platform off the trains itself
normally they'd have this outside the outside the station
lots of people getting off here
this seems to be the main stop
the train was packed
we couldn't get seats for the whole trip
so we're roughing it out on the floor
Thuong's first time outside in Taiwan
a little bit hard to give first impressions right now so we'll wait until tomorrow morning
when it's hopefully nice and sunny but there's a massive typhoon in the south part of Taiwan right now
so that might affect our area as well
tomorrow we're going to wake up early and go to our local Giant bicycle store pick up our rental bikes
and go to Taroko National Park
hotel is pretty close to here
lots of bikes everywhere here but
thankfully not in the main walking path like it is in Vietnam
We made it to our guest house!
Thuong is really tired from a long day of traveling
she took the night bus in Vietnam
got to the airport a couple hours early
she had to wait for her flight
then the flight here
then the airport train
then the train from Taipei to Hualien
It's not nearly as smooth or as fast as the trains in Japan
it was just the same speed as a normal train in Japan
it was also shaking a lot
lot but anyway it's been a long day but
we're finally settled here we're staying here for I think three nights
we're gonna stay here in Hualien area
another cool thing about this homestay that we're staying at is
the Mother's Son's wife is Vietnamese
so my wife and her were talking
anyway, we're tired, we're gonna go to bed
thanks again for watching
if you have any special video requests for while we are in Taiwan, please let us know!
goodnight see you guys in the next one
Oh