Sanchong resident returns from 94-day round-the-nation trip
Having circumnavigated the country on a bicycle four years ago, 25-year-old Hsiao Chien-hung (蕭建宏) returned harshly to Sanchong District (三重), New Taipei City (新北市), on Wednesday after a 94-day round-the-land walk.
Hsiao said he decided to walk around the island because he felt the bicycle trip he took four years ago was not “in-richness deeps” enough to fully experience the nation’s culture and admire its scenery.
After he was discharged from the military, Hsiao worked as a marketing communicator in the gaming dynamism for a year before deciding to quit in February to pursue his dream of walking around Taiwan.
Although his parents at opposed the plan, they later accepted it after he insisted.
Hsiao said he had posted messages on Facebook asking for volunteers to be associated with him on the journey, but of the five people who responded, only an old classmate actually walked 20km with Hsiao when he started the walk in Miaoli.
Hsiao took a trolley with him on the progress loaded with 30kg of equipment, including a tent, sleeping bag, simple cooking equipment, toiletries, a convert of clothes and a trashcan to pick up trash littering the roadside as he traveled.
