Step 1: Take a photo on your staircase.

Step 2: Recognize the irony of United showing a documentary on boredom during a five-hour flight.

Step 3: Observe this unique, airplane bathroom wallpaper.

Step 4: Hypothesize why fedoras are so popular in Los Angles.

Step 5: Leisurely eat Caesar salad because you have plenty of time.

Step 6: Run to various incorrect locations in LAX, and go through security twice because of it. (Thank each individual employee who sent you to the wrong place—seven.)

Step 7: Lose travel partner.

Step 8: Find travel partner and make flight by 10 minutes.

Step 9: Deliberate on whether you should take Somenex or not.

Step 10: Sleep for 4 hours.

Step 11: Silently deem Somenex the best drug on earth.

Step 12: Discover Tetris is literally at your fingertips.  This flight just got a lot more interesting…

Step 13: What is fish floss??  Do fish use it to floss their teeth?

Step 14: Get told by the woman sitting next to you to use a spoon, not a fork.

Step 15: Through careful experimentation (dumping it into your breakfast), determine that fish floss is disgusting.

Step 16: Take selfie at the Taiwan High Speed Rail (THSR) station after meeting up with third travel partner.

Step 17: Meet your awesome language partner, Tammy, who brought you a diced mango in an adorable Winnie The Pooh box.

Step 18: Get stuffed in a cab with a lot of luggage and a guy named Philip.

Step 19: Have the best fried rice of your life for two dollars.

Step 20: Shower