Biking trip: 2nd day

Set my alarm to 6:55, but some how the morning call guy knocked on our door just a minute before the alarm went off. After some preperation, we're on the road again. As a speedoholic, I once again rode to the front pack, then realized that the slower pack was no where to be seen. We stoped for a little rest, while someone finaly came over to tell that there's an accident way back. "Someone droped his speedometer, the one in the back pulled on the brakes, then the others just crashed into a mess." Now what did I say about ridding to close together? Although I didn't see it my self, seems that a girl was quite hurt, bless her.

After breakfast and a little riding, we stopped at a suger plant(台糖花蓮糖廠)for some icecream and popsicles. Although it's winter, it's still so hot around here that it's just right for some icy snack. Not only does the stuff taste good, the sceanary and some building around there were beautiful.

We then wound up to a smaller route that crosses the farms. I don't know about the others, but I'm finally having some fun with the little ups and down. Minute hills compared with the slops near home, but better than the flat roads of the morning. It also has less cars and much better sceanary of the country, with orange trees, rice paddies and fields of flowers. You even get a great look of the mountains in the back ground. Now that winding little route was really a film(or should I say memory?)killer. There was a long down hill of the route, where we speed-a-holics once again zoomed ahead, leaving the rest behind. We stoped at near the end of the slope, when we realized that the people behind was once again not showing up. A phone call back reveiled another accident. A friend who joined the club about the same week as me had a brake lock up and his bike rolled over, resulting in him lying on the ground, nose bleeding. Oh well, seems that he's expecting it...(he said he falls every time he rides)

Later, me and 2 others left the pack to check the path ahead, where we would have games tomarrow. In order to get there before it got dark, I said we should stick to an aveage of about 24km/hr. But seems we're slightly under that, because we are a little exusted be the day's riding before this. We asked a woman how to get to our destination, who started nagged like a mom, telling us how dangerous it is to ride there in the dark. Great thanks for her caring, but we have work to do, so we went on. We thought we were going to climb a mountian, but, oh well, the road was so easy and flat. After we maped out the area, the rest of the pack is still about 30 minutes away. Oh well, guess we are fast enough. We even had the time to have dinner before we meet with the pack and greet everybody "long time no see." We learned later that the others, unlike us, didn't have the time to eat until they arived. Oh well, I'm...speach less.

It was another great hotel on top of a hill, over looking the whole town. And to our suprise, it's got digital TV.