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<\/p>\nI loaded a dozen episodes of “Jordan, Jesse, Go!” onto my music player and had a very pleasant morning riding the train through Perak listening to nonsense and enjoying the view.\u00a0 I took about a hundred photos out the train window, all of which are terrible.<\/p>\n
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Home-made structures built from corrugated metal<\/strong>.\u00a0 Outside of Germany there’s nowhere in the world where a train ride won’t expose a few of these.\u00a0 Malaysia, though, is chock-full.\u00a0 I saw factories, chicken coops, turkey barns, homes, and restaurants, all with great-looking patchwork roofs.<\/p>\n Delicious weeds<\/strong>. Medians and wastelands are full of banana stands and little patches of sugarcane.\u00a0 Since these things seldom grow from seed I can’t imagine that they’re volunteers… perhaps there’s some sort of Jimmy Rogers-type conspiracy to make sure that there are always free snacks by the roadside.<\/p>\n Not pictured due to photographic limitations:\u00a0 Dinner-plate sized lotus flowers<\/strong> growing in swampy places, and Lots of Vintage Vespa Scooters<\/strong> rolling around way out in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I loaded a dozen episodes of “Jordan, Jesse, Go!” onto my music player and had a very pleasant morning riding the train through Perak listening to nonsense and enjoying the view.\u00a0 I took about a hundred photos out the train … Continue reading ![\"tastiness1.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/bogott.net\/unspecified\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/tastiness1.jpg\")
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