#176 First hike in Taipei

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Alright, I'm getting my first taste of hiking in Taipei. So far, so good. This is the Jiantanshan Trail, J-I-A-N-T-A-N, Jiantan Park, S-H-A-N Trail. Pretty close to my Airbnb. It's like two or three... Yeah, a little more than two subway stops away. Pretty close, right in the city. Nice little hiking thing. Man, though.

I was starting to think maybe I should have taken the subway, even though it was only two stops. And I always interchange all the terms. It's an above ground train, so it's really not a subway. It's a superway.

But yeah, as I started walking up the steps to get up to this hiking trail, holy fuck, it made me realize like, obviously I did quite a lot of hiking in Japan and a ton in Seoul, Jechon, and Busan. That's when I was at my peak. And then going uphill on Jeju was pretty intermittent. You know, as I walked around that island, I did go up some mountains here and there. But not commonly, and then since I got to Taipei, I've just been in the city. So yeah, once I started going up these steps, I think maybe also I was, maybe I'm just not used to pacing myself as well. Because my body was freaking out. Like, I could just feel my heart beating like crazy, and it's like, fuck me. I can't believe how fast you kind of fall out of the rhythm, out of hiking shape. But then I kind of reminded myself, wait a minute, you know, also, with all my previous hiking, I'm still a super slow hiker. I don't hike at a normal walking pace, which I guess is what I was kind of doing. I got to go real slow, take a whole breath in, take a step, whole breath out, take a step, take your time, and then I was fine after that.

But yeah, so far, if this is any indication of how things are going to be, it's pretty sweet because...

South Korea has really good hiking trails, really well-labeled. The only place where I kind of ran a foul of it a bit was Jetchon, because it's a much smaller city. Everywhere else, super well-developed hiking trails, really well-labeled. You'd have to really try to get lost.

There's a bunch of shrines up in this mountain. That's where this music is coming from. Let's see the shrine itself though, the past one earlier.

But yeah, Japan, on the other hand, very easy to get lost. It's much more the sense of, you know, there's basic signs and stuff.

But the hiking trails are really based on just previous people. You know, you just got to follow a trail that someone made previous to you just by walking. And they might tie ribbons to trees, and maybe there's an occasional sign, but it's very easy to get lost in Japan. And Japan is like very rough and rugged hiking. Very, you're on your own style hiking.

Where yeah, if this is any indication, I don't know if it is, because this one is right in the city, so maybe it's a little more developed, but this one. Yeah, it had super well-made awesome steps all the way up. The actual trail isn't even a trail. It's like stone, like flat stone the whole way. And these signs are nuts, man. I've never seen signs this good. So just for example, these signs I'm at right now. There's an observatory 80 meters back that I just passed. Let's see, if I go this way, it'll take me to the Jantan branch line. Yes, the subway I passed to get here. 0.9 kilometers, and it even says it'll take about 45 minutes. And this is all in English. I don't even have to translate this. You know, English and Chinese. 280 meters to attraction four. I don't know what that is. 200 meters, 200 observatory, both in the same direction. The plain spotting platform, 1.8 kilometers, about 80 minutes. I don't know, maybe I should do that. Like that's not the... There seems to be two things. There's the plain spotting platform, and there's actual hiking trails. The hiking trails are just kind of listed as hiking trails.

I'm not really sure. I mean, they're both sending me in the same direction. So for now, I'll just go that way and see what happens. But I guess I'm not too sure because... I mean, this seems like not only is it well developed, but since it's right in the middle of the city, I don't think you could really get lost. I don't think this could go too poorly. There's people sitting up here having a little picnic or something at one of the tables.

But yeah, this is pretty a pretty safe hike, very well developed. Surrounded by city on all sides. But it has been raining today. None of the like super insane crazy rain. Just little pitterpatters here and there coming and going. But it's like that weird middle ground where I eventually did pull out my umbrella a couple of times on the way here.

But it's right on that line of like, do I even really need the umbrella? I'm not sure.

But it's keeping the sun away a little. It's obviously really humid, but it's less hot. So I feel like this might be a better plan, even though I could conceivably get caught in the rain. It seems probably better than the alternative of coming up here on just a pure super heat sunny day. Because yeah, I'm just not sure if I want to do that at all. No matter how close the hiking trail is to the city. I just think August is not the time to be outdoors in Asia. It's just not. It's fucking horrifying. But so far so good. And yeah, I mean, I'm still following stone steps on the way up. This is a super easy hike so far.

And I'm starting to get some nice views. Once in a while, there's a break in the trees. I can see an expressway, a big mega expressway. I don't know if you can hear it, maybe a little. And yeah, I can see out across the city. It's pretty nice.

Man, the kind of buzz of cicadas and various insects and stuff. I can't see any, but just can hear them. It's like uniform enough that I was like, I guess because there's also the expressway in the distance. I was like, is that just natural nature buzz or is there like some kind of weird construction sound that I need to get away from? It's like, no, that is just nature. Nature's fucking loud. Anyway, this is kind of cool. I'm up at like an observatory thing and I saw the Taipei 101 Observatory Tower. The tower that I bumped into by accident when I went to the night market. Turns out those night markets are all over. Actually, they're dotted all around Taipei. Probably all around Taiwan. And then I went to the other side of that tower and went to a big cool cemetery thing, but that day was so crazy hot that I bailed out. But that's interesting. That's what I'm looking at. I'm able to situate myself. I'm across the river now. I'm on the other side. So that expressway I'm looking at is the expressway that in circles Taipei, although on this side, it's not a wall. You actually can see under it and through it. That's nice.

Oh, here comes a fella. Here comes a local. Maybe I'll stop talking to myself for a moment.

There's some kind of big traditional looking building here. I still don't have any kind of a sense of, you know, there was like fairly distinct shrines in Japan. And then super distinct shrines in Korea. Like they all look the same. Not totally sure what the deal is here. The Chinese style stuff. I don't know much about it yet. But yeah, it's neat to see these very tall buildings. There's one other one that I don't know what it is. The 101 is to my left. Over to the right. There's another similarly tall building, but I don't know what that one is. Yeah, I'm across the river. So it's like looking over. I'm like, oh, cool. Like there's where the mountains behind the Taipei 101, that's where I had started to hike to. And I can see from here. Yeah, it's just endless after that. The mountains just go and go and go and go and go. However, the other thing that's a bit unfortunate. I mean, this is very cool and stuff. Very nice view. And it is maybe because it's been rainy today. I think maybe it's a bit additionally gloomy. Maybe then it would normally be. But it's definitely not just bad weather I'm seeing. It's bad weather mixing with pollution. It's just undeniable. The look of this tower reminds me extremely of how Latte Tower looked from when I was hiking in Buchanan, I could see Latte Tower way across Seoul. And you could barely see it in the dimness of the wintertime pollution. That's unfortunate because yeah, we're summertime now. We're mid-August. And it looks very similar. I mean, that tower, the 101 is a lot smaller than Latte Tower and it's much closer. So it's a similar look. Actually, it looks about the same size from where I am. But it is obviously smaller and closer. But it's still very dim. It's like really fading into the background. That tower does not pop against the mountains behind it. It all just looks like one flat, gloomy, dark plane. This is actually darker even. 10:00 I mean, the pollution in Seoul had a desert look. It was like light brown yellow. I mean, they call it the yellow dust. This is like black. This is like gloom. It's very eerie. The pollution is definitely no joke here. The more I see it from up above.

So yeah, this is a combo feeling. I'm like, oh, cool. There's the tower. Neat. Oh, man, it looks like fucking hell. It looks like it's going to open a gate to Motherfucking Gozer or something.

Okay, here's the arrow to attraction four. But I don't know what attraction four is. And then the hiking trail is a different way. And also to attraction six. So I mean, I guess I'll just keep going toward the hiking trail and attraction six because I don't know. It's four better than six. What are you fucking talking about? What is this stuff? It's funny to just label them with numbers. I have no idea what you're talking about.

Oh, here's a rail. I saw one of these in Jeju Island. It's like a single rail. And they use these, I guess, for transporting stuff. Maybe up the mountain as well, but definitely down the mountain. You know, they put it in a bucket, put it on the rail, send it on down. Cool.

I'm at 153 meters. I'm at a lookout now. Not bad. Again, just to get back into hiking shape. 153, relatively small. But enough to fuck me up.

Alright, more steps heading up. I think that is my sign to turn off this recorder and just put some hiking in.

So I finally pulled out my phone to see where the heck am I? What's going on here? The trail is still really well developed, really well marked. I keep seeing people hiking by me and stuff.

And I can still just see, I just passed a weird name. Old Place Airplane Observation Deck. And it was actually like a big observation deck built out over the cliffside. I didn't really, there's a bunch of people out there already, but I didn't really want to go out anyway, because that freaks me out. But it's still just a view of the Taipei 101. So I'm still just walking along the edge of that river, the Keelung River, K-E-E-L-U-N-G.

But yeah, I was looking at just on the map and it's like, oh, it looks like I'm about halfway or so to just that inevitably, this has to end because I'll just hit more city. And a lady just walked past me with an A6 shirt. Is that a Taiwanese company or just a random shirt? Who knows.

Yeah, gravel. The trail is getting a little more natural now. Still though, still steps built in. They're just gravel steps now.

But yeah, I figured like there's no way I can possibly go much, much further because I'll just hit a road. But then I realized one of these roads that I'm heading toward is actually not a road, it's a tunnel. Zik-Yang Tunnel, Z-I-Q-I-A-N-G. I learned that in Japan that these brown roads on Google Maps, those aren't roads, they're these B tunnels.

So it's like, oh, no, if I bump into that, I could just keep going. And then from there, it just, I don't know, maybe there's a road past that?

Yeah, I think there is, because I was like, geez, the hudders and that. Then you could just go on and on and on and too. You could go very fucking far.

And yeah, it just eventually sort of becomes the Yangman Chan National Park. So I am going to have to deliberately bail out.

Hmm, that's interesting though, if I go north, there's a distinct trail. Oh, no, there's not. Actually, I'm not sure, just based on the little trail markers on here, I'm not sure how to get out of here, necessarily.

But actually, it looks like if I head south, the brown line on the train, wouldn't be optimal. I'd have to go way down south and loop all the way around to go back up north. That can't be the best method. But I could get to a train, but if I can figure out how to bail out to the north instead, I could just walk back home, because I'm really not that far. 15:00 Hey, we'll see though. I guess I'll just keep going and see what happens.

That's a nice thing. You know, it's just so hard to notice things that are absent to think about things that aren't happening.

You know, like I was thinking of like when you're sick, it's like, oh, God, a heapy and sick. But when you're not sick, it's very hard to think about that. Like, ah, how nice that I'm not sick, you know, just doesn't come up. I just noticed while walking. I was like, oh, I don't think my shoes squeak anymore. Maybe a little, but nothing like excessive, you know, normal shoe sounds. I remember after I got my shoes wet on J.J. boots. It was ludicrous. It was like I was on a fucking basketball court every second of every day. I had to kind of change how I walked just to put less pressure on the heel of my boot, because it made this loud, obnoxious squeaking all the time. And I couldn't seem to dry it out. Nothing I did helped. I was like, this sucks so hard. I kind of like ruined my shoes by getting them wet just because the noise they make is so annoying. So I don't know what point they stopped finally squeaking because that went on for weeks. It was so fucking annoying. I just thought my boots were ruined forever. But I just realized now, like, oh yeah, no, my shoes don't squeak anymore. I don't know when that happened. I don't know how that happened. But it did. So I guess I'll just, now that I finally realized it, now that it's finally occurred to me, I guess I'll just appreciate it, that I just make normal amounts of noise. And I'm not like a cartoon squeak toy anymore.

And this is so weird. Doesn't that sound like rain? Sounds like a little bit of rain, and there's some droplets of water on my phone screen, but I don't see. Oh, there we go. I felt one on my arm. I can't see the rain at all, but it's definitely a little bit of rain. That's fucking weird. Anyway, I met a literal crossroads here. I was just walking along, dude, dude, dude, dude. I was just going to keep going. But I did see a sign. I'm on Taipei Grand Trail Section 5, and it's 7 kilometers to Bishan Temple, 172 minutes, and only 800 meters, 17 minutes to the Wenjian Mountain Benchmark. Both those sound doable. Oh, and there's some people. There's some joggers coming behind me, so at least I'm not just all alone. That's nice.

And there's a place ahead of me, Jiantan Mountain Night View. I wonder, should I go a little further ahead 18 minutes to this 800 meters to the next thing, and that's what these joggers are heading to. That's not that bad. Maybe I'll go a little bit further ahead and then come back. But basically, yeah, that 7 kilometers to the Bishan Temple, 172 minutes. You know, seeing the minutes listed, that stuck in my mind a little. I was like, all right, it is quarter after five. You know, I have two or three hours before it gets dark, but it does. Even in the summer, you know, I was like, in the summer, I want to have to worry about things getting dark on the mountain, but it's still, it just gets dark early in Asia. Not as early as in winter, but still pretty early. So I pulled out my phone to look and it's like, oh, I am at the aforementioned tunnel. It's right here. I'm really close to it. And if I pass the tunnel, then it's like, hmm, there is a road. But even if I follow it north, I don't know that it connects back to my neighborhood. Maybe if I go way up and around to this National Palace Museum, not a short walk, though. Then if I go down south, again, I can connect to the brown line. That'd be my best bet, but none of these are quite what I want to do. But then I saw there's a little dotted green line that heads down to something that is unfortunately not labeled in English, but it's got the little castle like a rook from Chess symbol, which I think just means ancient ruins or something.

And here's the path. I'm looking at it. It is just just a little footpath, pretty steep going down the mountain. But there's a sign that I translated, and it's Suchao University. And then I saw that there is a bigger map here, Suchao University. And the slogan that's in Chinese and English unto a full grown man, which is perfect. Perfect Asian phrasology. Technically, there's nothing wrong with that. Presumably, they mean you go to Suchao 20:00 University and you will become a fully actualized adult unto a full grown man. It's just like no one would ever put it that way. What a strange. Anyway, it appears this little, this little janky path straight down the mountain that even has like ropes to hold on to because it's a little steep. I think that might be what I have to do because I think if I don't bail out to Suchao University, I just feel like I feel like then I'm just stuck. Then I'm just going somewhere else, you know, like this hiking trail just goes on and on and on and on and on and on and on.

But all that being said, yeah, let's at least go the 800 meters. I'm not in some kind of big hurry. Go to the 800 meters. See what that is. And then, if nothing else is evident to escape this mountain, I'll look back to here and take the little path. This is neat though. There is more stuff to do up here if I get started earlier in the day. There's a lot more stuff. But this overcast rainy weather is pretty clutch if this was a full on super hot day. I just don't think I'd want to do much more than this. I'm already running out of water even today on a super hot day. You know, a couple hours up here. That's not bad. That's a fun little adventure. But this is not the time for epicness. And here's a place with a barbed wire around it and some military looking trucks and a closed gate. I saw another one of these up here too. Very reminiscent of in South Korea where you just come across random military installations that are likely not listed on Google Maps. A little bit eerie. I'm kind of cool too.

All right. I think this is the end of the line for today. So I'm at Mount Wenjian, W-E-N-J-I-A-N, which appears to be 184 meters. So yeah, that's about as high as things get around here. Pretty doable though. It is constant down and up and down and up and down and up. Ahead of me, things definitely get bigger, but it's quite a bit in the distance. Yeah, this is definitely a very distinct new phase of this whole area. Where there was a little road. I don't know. I don't know where that went to. Maybe I'll go check that out too. It's probably just a view. But at one point, the road did keep going a little further, twisted around a corner. But the sign ahead was very clear that like, no, if you want to keep going to this mountain, to the shrine and to all the stuff that we've been leading you to, you got to take this just this little dirt path through the woods.

So yeah, that's what things are now. Yeah, and the sign is still here.

Six kilometers to Bishan Temple. Type A Grand Trail Section 5.

But yeah, this is all just a natural, like this is Japan style now. It's like the only way you can tell where to go in this path is because many previous people have gone on this path. It's a fully just natural nature trail through the mountains. I had to resist there to say nature trail to hell.

And yeah, it goes on and on and on. It's probably pretty nice.

But I did get to one point that was a very distinct outlook, you know, overview of the area. So it's kind of neat to see the path down to Suchau University that I'm heading to now. It's like, oh, okay, that would leave me down there where there's a pretty busy road and buildings and civilization and stuff. And then to the, that's to my left. Now to my right, there's just trees and mountains forever with an occasional little building dotted on it. Definitely a different vibe.

I did see though, on the other side, the 101 Observatory side, there's a Ferris Wheel over there.

Though it is not currently wheeling. Yeah, this is kind of cool then, kind of cool to know. And in fact, maybe, I guess we'll see, I guess we'll see how this walk back goes. But maybe I can just reverse engineer this now that I know about this stuff. Maybe from my Airbnb, we'll see how hard it is to get to Suchau University. Maybe I can just sneak back up this trail and just get started right here right at the point that things get all rugged. That could be kind of cool, but I do think the weather will have a lot to do with it. This relatively mild day is a fucking godsend. 25:00 On a mega hot day, I just don't know. I just don't know, especially, now that I'm heading more out into the great beyond. I mean, I still won't be, obviously like, there's a limit to how far away from civilization I can even be when I'm just on foot. But this is clearly much more away from civilization than before.

Here I am, I met that lookout. So yeah, there's some kind of tempoli-looking building not too far from here. And then you add down toward Suchau University, not surprisingly, buses and traffic and stoplights and all this stuff. Yeah, and it just really, really obviously becomes the edge of town. There's some big apartment buildings here. And specifically through this valley between the mountain I'm on and the one across from me, there's smattering of buildings on the mountains, but there's quite a bit more in the valley in between. But yeah, it's a very clear, like distinct point of city density just stops and it suddenly becomes ruralish mountain density. And way up at the top, there's some building. This is, I saw this building the first day that I was out here. Like I'm looking out at the National Park. There's some particularly big peaks in the distance, but I'm not sure if I can see them all. Yeah, I think there's some disappearing into the distance because of the haze. Yeah, there's this one really big building. I have no fucking idea what that is.

Nice though, this is all very nice. So far so good on getting out of the city, getting back to hiking times. Yeah, there are infinite, infinite options, just like man, it's just just mountainous forests. As far as the eye can see, which is not actually all that far because the ocean's mountains, just mountains in the way. But I guess I know through the magic of Google maps that those mountains don't stop, they just keep going to the coast.

But all right, time to head back to the trail. Well, I suppose actually before I, because there was still that one little bit of the road, where the road just kept going up a little farther. And I presume it just goes up to probably an observatory style dead end. But let's go check that out first.

Oh, no, that's actually pretty clear. I'm not supposed to go up there. This is all in Chinese, but they do have convenient arrows. An arrow that says either go this way, that mountain trail, or feel free to turn around. But this other way to the left, up this road, nope. The ghost busters know. Sign. So I did the little translate. Battle way. Battle ready road cannot be used for ordinary vehicles and personnel to walk down the mountain. No entry. Please return here. I mean, even the fact that they say, uh, personnel. Clearly some military terminology. And together to maintain a clean environment in the mountain area at night, if you need assistance, please refer to the following phone emergency rescue type-ass citizens hotline road rescue network.

So yeah, presumably that's yet another military thing. They said, don't go up there. That's fine. I don't want to go up there anyway. I'm tired of walking up today. That's enough. That's a fucking enough. Man, I was listening to, uh, I've got kind of like my major podcast. I listened to or just about whatever dumb, nerdy shit I'm into. But then I've got a backup. If I happen to get through all of my main podcast, they do just have a slush folder of like, oh, maybe I'll listen to this other shit if I have time. I don't often get to the backup folder, but today I did. So I was just listening to some random ass podcast about different types of, I don't know, they were just reviewing different sort of, um, health type shit, I guess. And one of them was Saunas. And the guy was talking about like, yeah, I love Saunas. I love just going in, sitting in my sauna. I got a sauna at home. He's like, you know, fucking West Coast guy. I got a sauna. Catch up on emails. He's like, really? And that's how little I know about Saunas. What? You bring a goddamn computer or your phone into the sauna? Okay, whatever. But then his co-host was like, yeah, I've actually started doing hot yoga. And yeah, I definitely am a proponent of the sweat and stuff. It's good to go sweat. And I was just thinking like, this seems so weird to me. I've never tried this stuff. But similarly to how I don't really understand gyms, I don't really understand going to the gym. 30:00 Driving to the gym with your gym clothes, new gym bag, and doing exercise in this room, I just never, I mean, it was never comfortable to me because I don't have a license. So it's hard to get to the gym and I don't like being around and observed by people. It's uncomfortable. I don't want to do exercise around people. But that it's also just this sterile environment. So whatever exercise I get in, you know, it's just functional. It's just hiking and walking exercise. It's very obvious that my lower body is doing fine and my upper body is not getting the workout it should have. It's not perfect, but it makes more sense to me because I'm just out in the world and I'm seeing stuff and I'm walking places and, you know, the fresh air quote unquote, even if it is a bit of a polluted environment sometimes. I just never really understood that. And I was just thinking that same thing about hot yoga and saunas. I'm sure they are nice and stuff. And it's not like this is a normal part of my life. All of this excessive sweating. This is new for me. This is not normal. This is not how my life usually is. But if I was just an Asian guy, this would be. This would have been my life for my whole life. But, you know, I'm getting used to it and I'm not just retreating even in even in August. I walked all the way around Jeju. You know, I think I'm doing alright with all this shit.

And so I don't mean to criticize people who go in sawnas, and I don't mean to criticize people who do hot yoga. I mean, again, I haven't done these things. But I just feel like this makes a lot more sense. I mean, I'm obviously doing a similar thing. Just guzzling water and sweating like crazy. Heat therapy. Presumably this is good for me on some fucking level. I don't know. I don't understand the science of it. But still, I don't know. I feel like this makes more sense to do it this way. We had a good sweat in. Yeah, all right. But why not go for a hike somewhere? Why do it indoors? Why is fucking everything have to be indoors, I guess? Why is exercise indoors? Why is the sauna indoors? Why is hot yoga indoors? It's fucking weird, man. Obviously the weather is a bit excessive here, but this is not exactly unusual. I mean, especially even in Canada, we have hot summers. But in the States, a large amount of the United States is pretty fucking warm.

But I don't know. I just don't really get it. I feel like just going out in the world, getting your exercise, getting your sweat, getting your whatever. It feels a lot more. It's weird for me to say it feels more natural. Where is that other stuff? It just feels unnatural. I just, whatever. Whatever. I think I made my point. There's no sense.

Yeah, I'm ring on about it. All right, I met the path down to Sucha University. Unto a full grown man. Unto a full grown man. But it is pretty steep. So I'm going to put this fucking recorder away in case I need my hands to grab this little guide rope and then presumably I'll just head home. Oh, look at this. You have to be standing at the right angle. But this map, this map of the area, it's like 10. And someone scraped. There's a bunch of scrapes on it, but someone definitely scraped a penis on here. But if you look at it straight on, you can't see it. You have to turn at an angle. And then you can see the reflection of the scratched on penis. Nice work, man. See, that's a nice thing about traveling. You know, it brings us all together. We're all basically the same underneath where I'll just fucking idiots who want to draw dicks on stuff. Nice. All right, thank you for listening. I'll see you next episode, more Taipei adventures. Please join me then, Adios.

All right, one last little bonus bit. So I came down off the mountain into, uh, looks like Fenya Hall, F-E-N-G-Y-A Hall. Yeah, I just kind of came down into a little community center and apartment buildings. Very similar to in Seoul, a lot of the mountain trails would just empty out into a neighborhood. So it would be really hard to find coming in. But maybe now that I've come down this way, maybe I can find it again. It was a pretty steep, rough path, but you know, definitely doable. And it takes me right up to where I was. But what I'm stopping in is I just drank the end of my water and I know I'm coming back into civilization now. It'll be fine. But there's a drink machine, like a big drink machine with tons of stuff. 35:00 It even has cans that from here they look like Pepsi, but I've never seen a Pepsi here. I've only seen Coke. I don't know if that even exists in this country. So I don't know what that is, but I can't find out because it's on the second floor balcony of this apartment building. So it's obviously just people who live in this apartment that can go out onto that balcony. If they need a drink machine, they got one. But it's so weird if it was just like down on the bottom floor. I've never seen that before, a drink machine that's just for one apartment building that is not available to the public. And it's like, fuck you. I seriously, oh, I would punch myself in my own nuts just to be able to go get a drink out of that fucking thing. I'm sweating to death. I'm out of water. Oh, it looks so good and it's way bigger than most of the drink machines. It's like double wide. What the fuck, Fenya Hall? Why? Well, it's not Fenya Hall's fault. They just don't have anything. This is weird as apartment building. Oh, wait, though. This probably isn't an apartment building. This is probably Sucha and University. I just remembered that's what I was heading to. That's a little less weird than I guess. All right. So, you know, that's semi-public, then. Not to me, but I guess to the average university student. If they know the drink machines there. Still, though. Oh, and there's another one on the third floor. Motherfucker.

Oh, here's a little security man. Very similar to Seoul. Hopefully, it's okay. The time I'm sure it's fine. I was just walking toward what I presume is the exit. Okay, yes. So there's the opening to this building. So yeah, it's probably not that hard. First academic building. It's probably not that hard to go in and get to the drink machine. But I'm not going to try to. I obviously not supposed to be here. But anyway, what the hell? Just a weird, a weird return to town where everything I want in need is right there. And I can't get to it. Fuck, now do I get the fuck out of here? Shit. Now I mean, you jazz university campus after hours. So there's not even anyone around. It's just empty. And I'm sure I'm belly aching for nothing. It won't take me that long to get out of here. I'll find a convenience store. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that better. That seemed funny. Oh, man, I just was like, is there like a rope I can use to swing over to that balcony? Come on, man. Something, please.

Instead, instead, if they find my fucking dehydrated corpse in the university parking lot, now you know what happened.

Yeah, I honestly don't know how to get out of here. What the hell? Anyway, I'll figure it out. So thank you for listening. Adios.