Jack's Space: Cycling Formosa - Day 1 - From Guandu station to Hsinchu

Day1, all dreamers congregated in Guandu station. Before this journey, the captain hoped that we could worship the Gods, including ruler of heaven, Muzu, and The Mercy Buddha. However, one of the dreamers whose nickname is Meimei was late about 45 minutes. When we called Meimei, he was still on his bed. Our schedule had no choice but to be postponed. The only thing that we could do was to introduce ourselves and chat with each other. Perhaps it was a good opportunity to know each other more at beginning. Finally, Meimei rode bicycle extremely fast, and he only spent 20 minutes from Shilein to Guandu. After Meimei arrived. We went to Guandu Temple. Unfortunately, the second incident happened. Because it was the first time that all dreamers rode together, we were not familiar with the speed of group. As a result, we only passed through one traffic light, and our group was separate soon. The leader readjusted the speed of group. We succeed to arrive Guandu station and worshiped the Gods. After that the leader gave some suggestions about routine again and reminded us of some trivial. At last we initiated our journey of cycling Taiwan.

Our first goal was Hsinchu. We rode along Provincial Highway No.2 and then turned to Provincial Highway No.15. We went along No.15. Perhaps it had been a long time that I did not see the ocean so I feel the view was beautiful, and I saw some windmills build along west seacoast. In the afternoon, we found out a cafeteria. The owner comes from Taipei County (Yungho), but most of her employees are Taiwanese aborigines (Amis Tribe). They left from their hometown and found out a job. During the conversation I could feel that they have unique feeling about their hometown and feel their passion after they knew that we are cycling Taiwan. The owner of this cafeteria even gave us a big bag of white gourd teas for free. At the first day of the journey I have already felt Taiwanese enthusiasm.

Left this sweet cafeteria, and then we set out on our journey. When we arrived in Hsinchu, one of our dreamers, Tuna, got cramp in his leg on a bridge. Cramp for a cyclist who would like to cycle Taiwan is a serious problem. If people get a cramp, it means that people even can not walk every other day. And today was our first day, the dreamer was afraid that he could not complete this journey. Whole the dreamers stop to help him. Some gave him massage and applied medicine to his leg. Nevertheless, I thought it was a good time to take a rest and took the picture. Fortunately, after simplicity treatment, Tuna felt better and he thought that we could continue our journey. At last, we arrive our first day of destination.

Postscript:

．about Meimei
Meimei just graduated from Department of Landscape Architecture in University of Chinese Culture . During this journey, I found out that he has talent in drawing and his though is so mature and reliable. I like this guy. He planed go abroad. After cycling Taiwan, he will start preparing TOELF exam because he would like to go abroad for his master degree.

．about Tuna
Tuna was the most unlucky dreamer in this journey. In the following stories, some bad things happened to him again and again. I deeply admired him because no matter what things happened to him he still could face them with positive attitude. He hoped that he could do a job about traveling industry, but his father looks forward to his son inheriting his business about semi-conductor industry. I believe after this journey he would like to pursuit his new dream and give him the courage to talk with his father.