Taipei and back in 61 hours (Part 8)-Do I really have time to buy custom shirts and eat breakfast?

8 a.m. –I returned to the hotel and got custom fitted for (4) four dress shirts from a tailor in the lobby. She agreed to ship me the shirts in 3 weeks. Cost was $100. She wanted to be paid in cash, in greenbacks.    I was now down to $80 of my original $200. 

Some people have since asked me how I knew I would ever get the shirts if I paid in U.S. Dollars and had no credit card receipt.  I figured that if I didn’t get the shirts, it would make a great story.  If I did get the shirts, then it would also make a great story about faith in mankind!

I got the shirts in 3 weeks, just like she promised!  Everytime I wore them I felt like I was back in Taipei.

 

8:30 a.m. — I was in the hotel restaurant for breakfast and met a Quantas flight crew who was intrigued by my story.  They invited me to a party they were going to have that night, but I told them I had to leave for home in a few hours because I was only in Asia for a 61 hour vacation!  Including travel time!

 

 

I finished breakfast and was back out on the streets of Taipei

Remember last night, when I took that last 15 minutes before midnight and did a subway ride to familiarize myself with the subway system?  It was about to pay off.

Next-back on the streets and headed to East Taipei to see Dr. Sun Yatsen

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