In Taiwan, Everything is Easy

As I sit here in the Tainan bus station at 3:45 on a Saturday afternoon, I am currently facing two of my biggest challenges this week. #1- Keeping My Eyes Open #2- Keeping My Head Up and avoiding the embarrassment of falling of the bus stop stool while passed out. The one bit of solitude I do have is that the weather is absolutely perfect outside. There is not a cloud in the sky, and the temperature is hovering right around 75 degrees which is absolutely perfect for my own liking. I also have trusty two month old Madgun brown and yellow guitar in its ugly black ripped gig bag. The bus stop is a hybrid between a station and just a very large stop. It probably has about 15-25 people waiting around for the next bus. I am on my way back to Jongli.  Not one of them is of Western descent of course besides me. I am so tired that I can actually see stars coming out of the corner of my left eye. And, I know the other one is droopy. If you are wondering why...

Welcome back to Taiwan. I invite you to take a brief moment and think of some of your favorite writers or musicians. Are any of them "normal" ?.  Probably not, huh?? I would also imagine that drugs and alcohol had a huge part of their writing style. This next work was no different for me. It was written around the time of my first Chinese New Year celebration in Taiwan. I had spent the previous 4 nights getting absolutely annihilated on some of the cheapest booze Taiwan has too offer. One of the nights even included a $500NT= 17.50 US dollars all you can drink party at a cheesy night club where I was the toughest guy there at 165lbs. Let's just say I got my money's worth. I am not always proud of how much I drink. And, I actually had to be woken up at The Armory (a local bar) , in Tainan at 7am as I was sleeping outside in the grass. But, there really is something magical about how in touch you get with your soul after some HEAVY drinking. You are re...