NTU's Lee Ming-tsung has also had the cheap-travel experience. Though family difficulties and problems with his military service kept him from going overseas until relatively late, he did manage to make it to Tokyo, just a three-hour flight from Taiwan, at the age of 27.
台大社會系助理教授李明璁，也分享了自己的貧窮旅行經驗：由於家庭環境不甚富裕加上兵役問題，他遲至 27 歲才首次坐飛機出國旅行，目的地則是離台灣僅 3 小時航程的東京。