Things to do when you’re riding a scooter for the first time on a cliff on aboriginal Orchid Island off of the southeast coast of Taiwan in driving rain and typhoon-like winds.
1. Combine style and visibility: wear a yellow trash bag disguised as a poncho.
2. Break your personal 10km/hr limit in order to not tip over.
3. Try to photograph some famous rock formations, get rain in the lens, give up.
4. When you take a hairpin turn too wide and run off of the road and in your agitation confuse the accelerator and the brake and crash into some rocks and the scooter falls on top of you, make sure to do it next to a field where a really nice lady is working so she and a truck full of guys can sprint over to lift the scooter off of you.
5. Brake for goats.
