Taxis in Taipei are a hair-raising experience.
Two of my colleagues and I went to a department store right before Christmas.
The taxi darted in amongst scooters with whole families on board, and had one after the other near misses.
I just tried to look at the floorboard so that when we inevitably hit someone I wouldn’t see the carnage.
I heard my male friend yell “look out” several times.
When we got to the department store it was wall to wall humanity.
You couldn’t stop to look at anything, you just had to go with the flow, wound up being swept in one door and out the other.
Got separated from both colleagues, but since one was a head taller than everyone else and black and the other lady was also quite tall and Hawaiian was able to keep them in sight.
The Taiwanese were very friendly and seemed to like Americans.
Mirrors my experience in Kaohsiung, but the drivers and cabbies were more or less sane.
Yep. Taiwan was a great liberty port when I was on a Destroyer back in 69-71. Very friendly to Americans once you get away from the port area. All port areas are shyt holes.