I really enjoy making free long distance call to clients, friends and families in USA from a moving bus in Taipei, but it’s even better for me to move around the Taipei City freely. The city government offers a free bike ride for the first 30 minutes to members of YouBike.
If you stay in the main area in Taipei, you can ride a bike at very low cost. Mostly free. Here are the steps.
It’s good to come back to my home town, where I grew up and lived for 26 years. Many of the foreign travelers from US may wonder how to call their families or friends in the US. I am actually amazed by the Taipei Gov. Now I can actually dial my my friends in US from any one of the 800+ moving bus in Taipei. With the free Wi-Fi offered by Taipei city government, I can check email, making a free US domestic calls on a moving bus, at major city facilities, hospitals and subway.
I have never heard or seem any city bus in the USA offering free wi-fi. Obviously, Taipei is much more hi-tech than USA. At mean time, you can also enjoy FREE BIKE RIDE in Taipei!
I you are interested in traveling to Taipei and make long distance calls to people live in USA or Canada, you can actually make free calls. Here are the setup you need.
Image Source: YiLan, Taiwan by Me – This image has been enhanced!
Thanks to my brother. He took me to the wonderful place in YiLan Taiwan. While I am traveling in Taiwan for Chinese New Year, he is very kindly took me to the mountain. The forest in YiLan is very beautiful.
The air is breath taking. It’s so fresh that you can smell the pine tree. There is no doubt that breath the fresh air makes me happy. The only thing that is not perfect is a missing person. I wish my wife were here with me to enjoy the raining afternoon. It is very uncommon to see the rain like this in the hot sunny Arizona.
Here I am! After 13 hours flight from LA to Taipei, I am sitting in front of the free Internet store and type this blog. I will fly to Hong Kong in just about two and half hours. The funny thing is that I use Yahoo Messenger to call my brother in Taiwan. It’s actually connect to the Yahoo voice server in the US and calling to Taiwan from there. So the voice delays, but OK.