We’ve got 3 hours to kill at SFO before the long flight to Taipei. Everyone walked around to find some breakfast, and a group has been playing hacky sack to get some energy out before sitting for 14 hours. Just a little longer…

Everyone is on the flight to San Francisco and bonus points…no knives were confiscated at security this time around. Here we go!

This time around I’ll be chaperoning a group of 12th-grade mandarin immersion students. I’m really excited to visit some new places, expand my food horizons, and experience it all with my son and his classmates 🙂 Check back here around 3/3 for daily updates along the way.

Sitting on the long plane ride home and reflecting, I feel so privileged to have experienced this trip alongside you five. I couldn’t have asked for a better group of kids to explore an island with. I hope that as you all move on to high school and beyond, this trip will serve as inspiration…

Across 14 days of exploration we walked 153,000 steps (75 miles). We took way too many trips to 7-11, and never enough trips to boba tea. We shuffled through crowds, wandered in the woods, baked in the sun, and dodged the rain, the mopeds, and squat toilets. We searched for garbage cans, ate ice cream…

These are a few of the funny signs that people found this past week. We spent a while considering the most devious route we could take, but didn’t want to get caught sneaking in the bushes. They take littering very seriously here, despite the complete absence of garbage cans anywhere. Sometimes it feels like a…