Fifi

Practising my driving in a random little area of Taichung

So the last time I wrote about my scooter, it was all in the pipelines. Now its mine. Bought and paid for. The papers are all in my name and I officially own my first set of independent wheels (as my dad calls them) I have named her Fifi. There is a logic behind this bizarre name. She has Fever written on her side and Taiwan is Formosa so I went with the two 'F's but lets be honest Fefo doesn't really work. So Fifi it is.


Needless to say I am loving the independence of having wheels. It took me a few try's to get steady on her. Last weekend I was in Taichung with Chuck and Molly who were looking after Fifi for me until I could drive her home. And Venus came over to help me get used to driving around. Now anyone who has been to Taichung will know that its not the best place to learn to drive a scooter because of traffic. Fortunately Venus found a quiet little suburb and I practised ridding there. Then we went to buy a helmet (its the good looking thing you see on the left) and after that I was a for away.

I didn't ride home on Sat though cos of traffic, I waited till Sunday after church on the hope that there would be a lul in traffic at the opportune moment. I was also covered with the prayers of my church (just before I left Chuck announced to the WHOLE church that i was going solo... I'll admit to a little embarrassment)

So my trip home was good all round. I had to turn around once or twice cos I thought I was lost... both times I wasn't and ended up driving the same road twice. But I'm not to phased cos it was quite a distance a good 20km.

And now that she's home, i'm zooting around as often as possible. I'm going to make the drive back into Taichung this weekend for Church, and hopefully all goes well and I don't get 'not lost' again.


And this is evidence that I got home safe, tired but safe ;)