#i hadn't reserved a return ticket cause i was gonna try to hitchhike if the weather was nice

[thistransient]

I got to the train station around 13:30 to find what seemed like everyone and their grandma trying to get out of Taitung County. Trains not running north of Hualien. Well... when you live on a vaguely oblong island, if you can't go round one way, you go round the other. I procured a standing room ticket to Kaohsiung (for starters), sat in a few empty seats til their owners turned up, and have now claimed a corner by the door (competition is fierce). It's the coveted window seat...minus the seat (I tell myself, like a consolation prize or something)