Three years of scooting around Taiwan

After gaining my Taiwanese motorbike license on my second attempt, I bought my first scooter three years ago today and haven’t looked back.This means I’ve now owned a scooter longer than three of the five cars I ever owned in New Zealand. That would’ve surprised the old me.Before coming here, I was never a motorbike person. I assumed I’d eventually buy a scooter because that’s what people do—after all, Taiwan has the highest rate of scooter ownership in the world—but I didn’t have especially positive or negative feelings about the idea.But actually, as I discovered, I love the scooter life.Daily benefits include:Convenience (scooters are often faster than cars in the city, and parking is a thousand times easier)Saving money (in New Zealand, I spent around NT$2,500 (NZ$125) a week on gas; now I spend more like NT$80 (NZ$4))FunMore funStill more funScooters are also cheaper, easier, and faster to maintain (and clean!).When driving my Subaru in New Zealand (in which I averaged 30,000 km…