Won't it Ever Stop??? - Landslide in Taiwan
Taoyuan Country, Taiwan- July, 2001

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It seems that I just can't shake the string of adventures that is surrounding this year. A month after I got out of the hospital after the plane accident, I was finally able to take my beloved little MG out into the hills. Taipei always has gotten on my nerves after a few weeks and I need to get some fresh air and ride around in the mountains to get away from this concrete.

After tooling into the mountains, I had managed to get myself into a backwoods road which made it very clear that somewhere way back I had made a wrong turn. I had branched off on what is a common occurance, mountain roads that just dead-end in the middle of nowhere. Reaching a few abroginal huts and nothing else, I turned the car back around to go back the way I came. Unfortunalty that little ticking feeling telling me it was time to go on back was about two minutes too slow.

Backtracking along the road, I jamed on the brakes just missing a bolder which rolled down not ten feet in front of the car. Immediatly after, the mountain came forward and devoured the road moving out and over the side with dirt, trees and debris. The landslide happened in the blink of an eye, and much faster then I could put the car in reverse. Since I'm still in the body castI couldn't turn to look behind me but just through the car in reverse and held my breath.

After about ten minutes, the mountain had calmed down a bit. There were still bolders rolling down but most of the bigger trees and such seemed to have already snapped and things quited down. I was soon joined by a few abronigals who in their upset started yelling at the mountain and cursing in any number of dialects adding a needed bit of comedy relief to the situation.

Not long after I crawled over the slide with my body-armor and cane for a good 24 hours of being trapped with the worst of local television in a small country curch. It seems that just being out of the hospital isn't enough to stop these adventures!

See the video (Windows Media Format - 4.5 MB) for a lively account of the fun!