Jessica Hahn-Taylor was born on a renovated WWII tanker, but spent a childhood in San Francisco, and during the summer went abroad with her mother. By the time she was a teenager, she’d visited over thirty countries and spent a year being homeschooled as she went around the world. As an adult she’s done much alternative travel, self-published several books about it, and was in a documentary called "Catching Out," about hopping freight trains. She lives with her husband and daughter in San Francisco.