on this train, i stayed up most of the night with my head out the window listening to music, dust caked all over my face towards the end.the buildings and landscape here LOOK very communist. stark with a single, rare light illuminating a window at 3am. and rows of trees and bushes. also lush greenery which seems to balance out all of this.
at intervals, uniformed men shone flashlights at the tracks, from road crossings. at one point the train stopped and one of the offials came up to my window smiling. i offered him some of our whiskey, which he passed around to other guards (or whatever they were).
we were stopped this time for a while and jenny and i took out our ipods and let these guys have our headphones while we played music for them...
they looked so stoic from a distance. but such warm people.
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