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"I probably looked like a weirdo waving around a book—a long list poem, no less—in the hot sun outside the Petronas Towers, but it seemed less obnoxious than the influencers doing photo shoots"

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Carl Watts
Sep 30, 2024
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a book on vacation books overflowing from that car

The semester finishes late in China, and I needed to come back early in August to take care of some administrative business. So I fit in only a very short trip this summer, to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and Jakarta, Indonesia.

I avoid checking in baggage whenever possible, and this time my ultra-budget fligh…

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