Summer Getaway

I have started sharing an apartment with a good friend for a season now. It was pretty nice having a roommate for a change. Of course life would not be as convenient as the time I got to use everything by myself only, but it’s been very nice to have a great chat with a roommate while we are watching “Desperate Housewives” or “Sex and the City” on TV. The discovery from those programmes is that life is equally interesting and troublesome whether you are single or married.

Also, there is a usual ritual summer getaway in Taiwan that we always get three to four typhoon visitors. During those windy and rainy days, I got to enjoy the drop of temperature, which made you forget about summer for a few days. Of course those visitors always cause some damages, more than some, really. However, it is the case that if you cannot avoid your enemy, you might as well embrace it. Apparently there’s been an unusual visit of the rather new enemy in the States this summer. Guess there is no other way but to start to face and work with “it”.

While it’s been the case, in my view, that it’s just too hot and humid to do some real outdoor activities during day time in Taiwan, I’ve managed to have a few my summer “one night stand” getaways then. Instead of heading to the summer paradise—the beach, I went to a hot spring resort called Wu-Lai up in the mountains where you get the hot water tub, cold water tub, the breeze from the mountains and the discount from the resort (summer, of course, is the big discount season for hot spring).