Trip #2 to Ilan via Beibu Road

I drove my scooter to Ilan once again this past weekend. It was perhaps the most aimless trip, and in some of the ways, one of the more successful ones. If I'd had more time, I'd have actually had more of a chance to see more important sites and sights.
Once again, I got some fabulous pictures of the mountainside...

Quite a number of them, actually...

You can see millions of little white shapes in the background That is Ilan, which was 2 hours away from where I was standing.
Here are a couple more to confirm this more clearly for you:

Quite a sight, really. I loved how I was able to drive, on such a beautiful Thursday afternoon, feeling so completely free and so completely alone. I was able to drive for kilometre after kilometre, sometimes for forty minutes, in fact, and not see one single vehicle - be it a scooter, car, motorcycle, truck, or bus - going the same way, or the opposite way.
I'll come back to this post later, either today or tomorrow. I am feeling a little tired. The heat, and then the sudden shock that air conditioning brings to my body is absolutely murdering my store of personal and physical energy these days. I don't really like the idea of air conditioning in my house. At the same time, it's starting to seem a necessity. Sharon, my "other half," has been becoming more and more insistent on it, and these days, since at the moment, she is becoming more of the breadwinner (I am currently only partially employed) I can't really say no. Even if that were not the case, she has said we need it so many times that I can't really say no anymore.
I find, however, that air-conditioning makes me either too drowsy or too wimpy. It doesn't necessarily affect me in both ways at once. If I get too used to air-conditioning (which I did in the summer, in Montreal) then I complain too much about the excessive heat, even when it is only thirty-two degrees outside. Thirty-two degrees? That is totally tolerable, truth be told. But I don't want to start complaining about it.