One Day You’ll Need This

I wrote a letter to my son to make sure here is able to find all the meaningful places in Taiwan even after I’m gone.

“When I was growing up my parents took me to Taiwan many times, and after they moved back I visited almost every year. They used to pick me up at the airport; from the minute I arrived I never had to worry about getting around on my own. But when their health started to decline and they were less mobile, I had to learn to navigate by myself. None of these addresses are written down; everything I know is from memory and repetition. You haven’t had this lifelong training, and you don’t know any Taiwanese or Mandarin, so you will have to travel twice as far to reach the same place.”