In Taiwan, Everything is Easy

The Beach: After Liyushan, go to the Taitung beach. Liyushan`s Least Wanted: White tops and bald ladies pierce your inner drum with horrible Karaoke. Your kid``s church choir group sounds like Beethoven compared to these microphone train wrecks. The Liyushan trail won't exactly win Lonely Planet's best unkept secret award. It still won't be nominated for The Shittiest Trail award. The nature and the stroll will make you smile. How to get here:  Spend most of your afternoon trying to go five minutes without staring at your phone on the long haul from pretty much anywhere else on this island. The annoying voice of your Taiwanese coworker who warned you " Taitung is too far ," will haunt most of your trip. Once you arrive in Taitung, look at Google to get to the trail, you fucking idiot:) The Tower Look at that view. What a picture that would make from the top!! Don't Frommer (travel guide) Jolly yourself too fast.  You can'...

By Joshua Dent Screw Air B&B Tonight! I left the windows open, and the keys in the ignition. My left hand swung the driver side door open. I planted my two feet on the ground. I didn’t have the same ring of sweat in the middle of my back as I did last year I did not stop because I wanted to take in the sunset. I did not stop because I wanted to look at the mountains behind me. I did not stop because I wanted to go swimming. I stopped because I needed to retrace my steps from the previous year. I needed to retrace my steps just as quickly as I abandoned my Air B&B destination of Fangliao for the night. Have You Heard?  Last Year Sucked (for me), This Year Rules (for me) I was at this same beach, in Fengshan, in one of the most desperate times of my life last year. At 4 p.m., on a 34 degree day (34 Celsius, 34 Celsius= 94 Fareneheit), I came here the previous year. Last year, I jumped off my scooter. I headed right for ...