quick follow-up

Since I'd almost forgotten: the scooter plan is pretty much out. Not for road-handedness reasons (though I'm sure it would make things more difficult), but rather because of the remoteness of our campus. I could get to the Tai Po town center from here no problem, but basically everything else requires highway driving. Oh, and for LA people, whose understanding of "highway" may be influenced by ten-lane monsters with flyover interchanges, every highway here is like the 110 coming down from Pasadena (though some are newer-looking), so highway driving is extra-exciting.

Scooters, although probably not subject to Hong Kong's onerous vehicle taxes, are probably illegal for highway use (and if they aren't illegal, they should be). So I'm going to just suck it up and use the bus-suburban rail-metro triathlon to get into town.

Who knew that after four years at Pomona, I'd end up working in basically the Claremont of Hong Kong? It takes over an hour to get into Kowloon from here, and that's if you catch the bus as it's leaving.