In the summer of 2017 I borrowed a scooter to ride to a music festival in Nántóu 南投 and didn't return it for several months. It wasn't a continuous road trip—I'd leave the scooter parked at various HSR stations as I slowly made my way around central and southern Taiwan—but each leg of the trip usually involved 3 or 4 days of riding. In the end I gathered enough material for 60 or 70 posts, only some of which have been published.