Driving or Taking Your Life in Your Own Hands – Taipei, Taiwan

Driving or Taking Your Life in Your Own Hands
Taipei, Taiwan

When in Taiwan, do as the Taiwanese do, drive like maniacs or take your whole family on a scooter for a game of chicken.

Scooter parking lot = Sidewalk Does any of that make sense? No? Welcome to driving 101 in Taipei. Once out of the city it was really nice. But inside Taipei, after the most nerve-wracking 1 hour 45 minute drive; dodging scooters, busses, bikes, walkers, dogs and other cars; to get a few miles, we then had to circle and wait over an hour to park the car in the vicinity of home. NYC cab drivers are civilized in comparison.

FYI – sidewalks are also called the carpool lane if you’re at all in a hurry.

And remember:
I have a helmet, it will protect me!!!
I believe, I believe in the power of the helmet!!!
I think I’ll take my chances with the scooter!!!!!!!