I took a
train from
Beijing to
Xi'an through the interior of
China. It was a night train and the intercom played weird Chinese
pop music all night, like maybe the conductor forgot to turn off the mike when he first gave the train stops.
We went through hundreds of miles of rice paddies in the interior of China during harvest season, which was amazingly interesting. But the most interesting part was when I went to claim my bunk in my coach, It had been squated by a mother and her child.
I let them sleep and sat by the window watching the people go by.