The Last Country on this trip: Taiwan, May 27 to June 8, 2024
Tainan City The flight from Seoul to the airport in the south of Taiwan, called Kaohsiung, was easy. Though when we checked in at the airport in Seoul, we did have to show our flight information out of Taiwan. No problem for us this time, but it always annoys me because Scott and I often debated on this trip whether we’d have to show our tickets out of the country, upon entry, and I preferred to keep our stays flexible and try to risk not having a ticket purchase. Sigh, more often than not, to board an international flight, we did have to show the airline an email with our exit flight. Boo, more points for land-border-crossings! After the short flight, we had to board the high speed train from Kaohsiung to Tainan City. We took the subway from the airport to the high speed rail station; on the subway, a man struck up a conversation with Scott and the nice guy spoke Mandarin to Alex and Luke and they’d hop up from my side of the subway to Scott’s side so they coul...