This article offers a series of impressions from a tour he led to China with some social studies educators from Ohio. It extols the virtues of foreign travel for teachers. It discusses some very real-life experiences of U.S. and Ohio educators, who learned first hand the culture, geography, history and government of China. It requests that the reader always thinks in terms of the Academic Content Standards: K- 12 Social Studies. The article maintains that an educational tour of China will improve teaching and benefit the learning opportunities for students.