TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 6:30 p.m. - Full moon rising, Keelung riverside park, Songshan District.

6:33 p.m. - Plane landing at Songshan Airport.

6:37 p.m. - and taking off.

6:37 p.m. - Clouds over the mountains south of the Taipei basin.

AUGUST 27, 5:28 p.m. - Bali 八里 township, this is already deep in the ride involving riding towards the mouth of the Danshui River and crossing over to the left bank to here on the northwest coast. Those domes are next to the Shisanhang Museum 十三行博物館. I found a bike path behind the museum which looked like it wasn't new. It didn't look like part of the recent rampant development of bike paths. Either way, it is being extended and looks like it will reach Formosa Fun Coast 八仙樂園 water park.

5:28 p.m. - The new Port of Taipei at a rest stop along the bikeway.

5:37 p.m. - Mt. Guanyin 觀音山 from the north, an angle from which I'd never seen it before and wouldn't recognize.

5:38 p.m. - The extent of construction of the bikeways to Formosa Fun Coast. Have to get back onto surface roads from here.

5:54 p.m. - Looking back at the Port of Taipei while riding along the highway on the northwest coast. It really is a full-on highway, but it's safe for cyclists because slow traffic lanes are physically separated from fast ones.

6:02 p.m. - Northwest coast highway. This was supposed to be a casual ride that ended up being 60 miles! That's far for me. At this point on the highway I decided to turn around and go home, hoping to get back to the bikeways (i.e., off surface roads) in Bali before sundown

6:05 p.m. - Northwest coast wind turbines at sunset. This is a ride I will re-visit and explore further down the northwest coast.