VIDEO DESCRIPTION:
After months of cycling across Southeast Asia and circumnavigating Malaysia, the legendary American Hobo, AKA Daniel, is finally returning to Kuala Lumpur! I got a fresh haircut for the special occasion, but of course, on Planet Doug, even a simple meetup at the train station turns into a full-blown drama. From mysterious train schedules and a sudden flat tire to missing tools and broken elevators, we faced every possible hurdle just to get him and his bike to the hotel.
Join me, Planet Doug, as I finally meet up with fellow travel YouTuber, the American Hobo, for his arrival in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. This collaboration was months in the making, featuring all the classic elements of Southeast Asia travel: KTM commuter trains, navigating KL’s complex streets, and enjoying a delicious Pakistani buffet in Chow Kit.
VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:
Welcome back to Kuala Lumpur Vignettes. First thing on today’s schedule was a haircut, which I already got. And in fact, that’s where I got my haircut right there. Just says barber shop on the door. There’s a whole bunch of barber shops here. There’s one here, one here, and there’s my hotel. So, this barber shop was the easiest one to go to.
And I had my usual Planet Doug style adventures there. I can turn a haircut and turn it into a thesis on human interaction.
Noisy truck. Whatever’s going on with that truck. I decided not to take video of the haircut. I’ve done a number of haircut videos and I just wanted to get a haircut done. And actually, I’ve been wanting to get a haircut done for weeks and weeks and weeks, but I find it such a difficult chore to undertake that I just can’t get around to it. But today is kind of a special occasion because right now I’m walking to a train station to meet up with another cycling YouTuber. Though I can’t really call myself a cycling YouTuber right now. I’m just a YouTuber, not doing much cycling lately. But the American Hobo who just finished like I don’t know how many months in total about 120 days, so three or four, no 4 months of cycling all the way around Peninsular Malaysia. He started cycling in northern Vietnam. He bought a cheap local bicycle for $100. And then he rode that bicycle south through Vietnam, through Thailand, through Cambodia, crossed the border from Thailand into Malaysia, went all the way down the west coast of Malaysia, all the way down to Malacca, Johor Bahru, popped over to Singapore, and then he came back into Malaysia and then cycled all the way up the east coast to Kota Bharu. And then from Kota Bharu he cycled west across the mountain ranges all the way back to the place where he started Alor Setar stayed there a couple of days and then he’s now heading to Kuala Lumpur and just to avoid the highway system like the complex highway system to get into KL he’s put his bike on the KTM commuter train in Tanjong Malim. So, right now he’s on the train and we’ve been messaging back and forth all morning and I said I’d like to come to the train station and be there when he gets off the train.
Hey Doug, there was no problem with getting a bike on. They did actually accept my old KL card too. Like I said, I have money on it, so I didn’t want to get rid of it. So, I’ve been hanging on it for a long time. I think this is only for the Klang Trains. It’s a MyRapid card. I kind of got the suggestion from you. But yeah. Wonder if this could be used as touch and go too, like for paying for things. But I think this is just strictly for the trains, but I’m not sure. So anyway, yeah, no problems getting the bicycle on. Looks like the duration is about an hour and 20 minutes. I thought she said there was going to be one here at 11 something, but for as far as Google Maps says, it’s not till 12 something. So what I’ll do is I’ll give you when I’m actually on and heading out, when I get on the train, I’ll go ahead and shoot you a text. That way you know you have it about an hour and 20 minutes before I arrive. And yeah, so looking forward to meeting you, buddy. It’s been a while.
But yeah, I look forward to meeting you, brother. So, because I’m meeting the famous American Hobo, I thought, okay, that’s the impulse that I need to finally get a haircut, get a little bit neater. So, that’s why I found the energy to finally get a haircut this morning. The arrangements for meeting up with Daniel, the American Hobo, were a little bit complicated. These things always are, right, where you’re trying to meet someone at a particular time on a particular train at a particular train station. And there’s so many variables that have to be worked out. For example, like where Daniel is going to be staying in KL. Once he knows what his hotel is going to be, he may even be staying at the Raja Bot. I don’t know about that yet. He might go back to one of his old favorites, the Explorers, cuz they have an inexpensive dorm room there at the Explorers. So, but I don’t know what hotel where he’s going to be staying, but of course, where he’s going to be staying dictates what train station you should go to closest to your hotel. So, we were messaging back and forth about that, like if you’re staying at the Raja Bot, then it’s best to get out at the Putra KTM station. If you’re staying at the Explorers, then it’s better to get out at Kuala Lumpur station cuz I think most people would naturally just take the train all the way to KL Sentral. So, you get off the train at KL Sentral, but I know from experience it’s really hard to get a bicycle out of KL Sentral when you arrive by train. You’re way underground and you got to navigate all these elevators and stairways and all kinds of things.
But anyway, I still don’t know where Daniel’s going to be staying, but on our last message, we seem to settle on him getting out at the Putra KTM station, and I’m on my way to meet him there. But then things got even more complicated. Like he just sent me a message saying, “Hey, I must be getting close to the planet to Planet Doug’s gravitational pull because in my world on Planet Doug, nothing big ever goes wrong, but all the little things are always a little bit squirrely.” And in this case, he was supposed to get the 12:40 train out of Tanjong Malim. That’s the schedule. There’s a train at 11:40 and one at 12:40, one at 1:40, etc. So, he’s there on the platform and then out of nowhere, I get a message from him saying, “I’m on the train.” And it was 12:15. And that made no sense to me. Like, how can you be on a train at 12:15? There is no 12:15 train. So, I thought, “Okay, I thought I knew KL. I thought I knew what I was talking about, but obviously I was wrong about KTM train schedules. So now we’re both trying to figure out what’s going on. But then Daniel found out or he heard an announcement or something saying that the train was running 30 minutes late. So in fact, the train that he got on was not the 12:40, it was the 11:40, but it arrived 30 minutes late. So that cleared up the mystery. So that’s something that would happen to me. But oddly enough for him, it worked out better because the 11:40 was 30 minutes late, he managed to get an earlier train. Otherwise, he’d have to wait until 12:40. So even though things got screwed up, it worked out in his favor. It’s kind of interesting. And then he’s on the train and he got his ticket. Okay. He got his bicycle onto the train cuz you can bring your bicycle onto the KTM commuter trains, not the ETS trains, but onto the commuter lines. And then he found out he has a flat tire.
Hey Doug, when I get there to the train station, I’m going to have to replace a flat. So, let’s see if I can get that. It’s a hard flat. I’m taking my bicycle. I’m taking the bags off my bicycle right now just so I don’t have that extra pressure on the rim. And I have a spare and everything. So yeah, you got to give me a few minutes when I get off to change out that flat and all that fun stuff. I know how that is. So just giving you an update. So, the first thing he has to do when he gets off the train here is fix a flat tire. So, anyway, that is why I’m heading towards the Putra train station, the Putra KTM station. Luckily for me, just the other day, I went to meet a Planet Doug subscriber, Jamie, at a Burmese restaurant, and to meet up with him, I took the LRT from right up ahead here. This is a PWTC station up here.
So, I already walked this route and I’m so I did it just recently. So, I’m feeling very familiar with this walking route. And I just got another video message from Daniel and he was looking at his bike on the train and the flat tire repair is going to be a little bit more complicated than he thought because he just got the rear cassette replaced and see am I going to be able to get across here? Oh, walking signal. Cool. So, and the guy at the shop who did the repairs for him tightened something up really, really tight. And Daniel can’t get his wheel off. He doesn’t have the tools to do what he needs to do. So, he was asking me, “Hey, if you have this tool, can you bring it?” Hey, Doug. Question. Do you have the tool to get back into here? When he was replacing the flywheel, he cinched this down a little too tight. I mean, so I have the tool for this. I just don’t have It’s not the same size for inside here. Yeah, I don’t have that tool. Do you have it? If you do, bring it with you when you come to meet me. The train’s moving again. And I may have that tool, but it’s not here. It’s in Port Dickson, so I can’t bring a tool for him.
And now to get back to the original story, the haircut story, I picked this particular barber shop, because there were no other customers. All the chairs were empty, and there appeared to be a barber inside sitting in a chair waiting for customers. So, I’m always a little bit hesitant because I don’t want to freak people out. All his customers, of course, would be local people. This is the Pakistani neighborhood. He’s probably Pakistani himself, I think. And then maybe I like I don’t know about hair. Like if you’re cutting hair only from people from Pakistan, like when a guy like me shows up with my hair, is it different? Do you have to have a different set of skills to cut my kind of hair? I just don’t know. Or would he just be too nervous dealing with a foreigner? I don’t want to make the guy’s life difficult. So, I stand at the door and I make eye contact before I even go in through the glass and I make little snipping like, “Is it okay?” And if he gives me one of these, no, then I’ll go somewhere else. But I gave him one of these like, “Can I get a haircut?” And he says, “Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Body language, come on in.” And then right from the start, I don’t really know how to communicate because I don’t like to assume. I don’t want to assume that he speaks English, but this is Malaysia. It’s a national language. It’s a safe assumption. He has some English ability, but he could be could be Malaysian, could be Indonesian for all I know. Could be Pakistani, could be Bangladeshi, I don’t know. So, I don’t know what language to come out with. And I hit him with a little bit of simple English, like just talking about my haircut. I always want to tell barbers, I don’t care what you do with my hair. I have no style. I have no desire to come out of your barber shop looking like Brad Pitt. It’s not going to happen. So, all I want is whatever my hair is doing right now, do that, but make it shorter. And that’s all I need to convey to somebody. Just reassure them that I don’t have high expectations. If I come out looking ridiculous, it’s not on you. Don’t worry about it. I don’t care what I look like. Just make it shorter and neater. That’s what I’m trying to convey. Oh, I’m down at the river, by the way. Look at that. I never noticed this little cafe down there. Here’s the LRT line up above me. There goes the Ampang LRT PWTC station. There’s the Putra Sunway Mall, I think it’s called.
And what I have to do to get to the Putra train station is just go up ahead. And I think I turn left. So I think I know what I’m doing. Maybe I’ll see if I can cross the road here.
I made it across. This is the giant mall up there.
Look at that. The hop on hop off city tour bus. I wonder why it stops here. Maybe there’s something special about this mall or there’s a lot of hotels near here. I’m not sure. Gorgeous day, by the way. Really hot, though. The sun is just beating down. And I’m also walking a bit faster than normal. Oh, yeah. Here’s the sign for the KL Ronda Ronda. Ah, okay. This is the Sunway Putra Hotel stop. I didn’t know this was included in their rounds. Oh, yeah. Okay. Sunway Putra. Very cool pedestrian walkway up there. Very old, very interesting, pretty big.
So, I go into this barber shop and what I do in advance, if I can think of it, I always like to get out a photograph of me with a haircut recently that looked more or less how I want it to look. And I found a picture. It’s actually my passport photo that I took back in Mae Sai in Thailand when I had to renew my passport there. And just looking at that picture, the hair length and the style looks reasonable. Oh, look at this. Oriental Kopi. A Planet Doug subscriber has sent me like hotel deliveries, like two meals recently from Oriental Kopi, and they were amazing. The food was so so good. But I’d never seen an Oriental Kopi outlet. There it is. There. Eric’s very, very nice. But I could tell the barber wasn’t understanding what I was saying to him about my haircut. So, I just showed him a photograph. And once he looked at the picture, he’s like, “Ah, no problem. I can do that.” Like I said, it’s just shorter and neater. Those are my only requirements. And he did an amazing job. I really like this barber because he didn’t use clippers. Most barbers these days, they get out the clipper and they just kind of go zing zing zing zing zing with the clipper and it always seems a little bit anticlimactic. Like it goes way too fast and it doesn’t seem like they’re doing enough and I often have a very or somewhat itchy scalp. I like people to get in there and scratch. Right. And when you use the clipper, all it does is kind of tickle me. I just sort of feel tickled. I just got across that intersection. I went against the red light cuz I don’t think a walk signal was ever going to show up. But yeah, I could have taken the overpass, the pedestrian bridge. That would have been cool. And I think I have to go this way. I’ve got to get over this highway system, over this bridge and the train station should be right there.
I’m not sure how early Daniel’s train is going to. Oh, no. That’s the one heading north. I’m sort of hoping I can be there before his train arrives. He’s coming south, of course.
Yeah. So, there’s the KTM station. But this barber, he’s old school and he uses scissors, only scissors for the most part, a comb and scissors. And he kind of gave my head the once over. He kind of got in there with his fingers. He wasn’t shy. He just sort of like digging around trying to figure out how my hair works. And then he grabbed a big pump bottle for water, sprayed down my head with a lot of water, which I always like. And then he went to work with scissors and a comb. And I love that because it’s like the comb scratches your head like it feels so good. I guess I have dry skin or something. And then yeah, I just always close my eyes when I get a haircut. I don’t like to give the barber the idea that I’m watching him like a hawk, making sure he does a good job, I just close my eyes and say, “Yeah, just go to work. Do what you do. Don’t worry about me.” And of course, if you have your eyes open the whole time, you’re wondering like, “Where do I look all the time? Do I look at myself in the mirror?” I don’t want to give the impression that I’m so vain that I’m monitoring every stage of my haircut. So, I just close my eyes and let him do his thing. And I have to say based on his haircut that he gave me and the style right now I must have the best looking back of my neck anyone has ever had. He spends so much time trimming the back of my neck and evening it up and doing it. And he worked so long on the back of my head. I thought, “Wow, I didn’t realize the back of my head required so much work.” And I thought he totally forgot about the top of my head. But he was a total professional. Cleaned up the back of my neck really, really well. And then he switched to the top of my head, which I guess is good barbershop technique. Yeah, look at that skyline of KL. Massive apartment block towers up there.
And assuming Daniel and I agreed on where we were going to meet, this is where he’s getting off the train. I might even buy a ticket for the KTM to go to KL Sentral and just so I can go out on the platform and if we miscommunicated and he’s on his way to KL Sentral, then I can just hop on the train and go with him instead of waiting outside. We’ll see if I can get a ticket. Anyway, to end the haircut story, yeah, he did the top of my head, then he got out a clipper and he understands that men of a certain gentleman of a certain age with a certain hormonal balance, I guess, we end up with hair like sprouting out of our ears. So he goes to town, cleans up my ears, the inside of my ears, and something that almost no barber ever does voluntarily, he trimmed my eyebrows, which I love. Again, gentlemen of a certain age, our eyebrows start to grow 3 ft away from our heads. We end up with these awnings. We could actually like a rain cover or something covering our face from the rain. They grow out so far. So, you got to trim your eyebrows if you don’t want to look like grandpa. And then, yeah, he just did it on his own. He just trimmed them. So, he did a great job.
So, that was the power of touch and go, even though I was using a printed ticket with a QR code, so it counts.
When I swooped my hand down, I hit my GoPro mount. Kind of broke my finger there. But yeah, it looks like there’s a bit of a pedestrian bridge action here. So, Daniel’s going to we’re going to have to navigate to get his bicycle across this bridge, but I think we can handle it.
And there is an elevator. Let’s see. If it’s operational, that would be the easiest. Oh, except that elevator goes down to my platform. Let’s see if the elevator works on this side and see how big it is.
Oh yeah, it’s perfect.
More than big enough for a bicycle.
So, assuming that our flurry of 10,000 messages going back and forth worked out okay, Daniel should be arriving here shortly.
I don’t see this very often. Danger. No selfie sticks on the platform. Use of selfie sticks is prohibited, but my particular gizmo is a bit of a gray area. I wouldn’t call it a selfie stick.
It’s too short to be a selfie stick. So, I think I’m okay. But I can see their point. I can see people filming the train coming, filming themselves on the platform. They lose their footing, they fall into the tracks or the stick is longer than they think and the train hits it going by. So, I get it. But this is really just a hand grip. Here comes another train. That one is not stopping here clearly.
That would be one of the ETS trains perhaps, not a KTM commuter. And I think that one’s heading north.
I need the train coming from this direction heading south to KL Sentral. So,
I got distracted again and I missed the front of the train, but I’m way down at the end where I think they put the bicycles normally. So, what train number is this one? This is train. It’s KL Sentral. Aha.
It all works out in the end. Look at that. The American Hobo arriving Kuala Lumpur. Here we go. Amazing. Look at you in real life. I can’t believe it. I can’t believe it. You’re a lot taller. Everybody says that. Well, on video you’re only about 2 in. Yeah, there I am with the American Hobo. I’ve only got one microphone running, so that’s why I’m leaning in close to get your voice. Oh, yeah. That’s no problem. I’ll try to I’ll try and talk loud. So, we finally meet up after all these times of actually dodging it. It’s crazy. So, a lot of people say that. A lot of people have knocked on my door in hotel rooms, like YouTube subscribers track me down and when I open the door they’re all like, “I didn’t know you were so tall.” Well, I saw you coming out of the museum and it looked like you ducked under that little thing. I was like, “Oh, I think he’s a lot taller than I am.” But well, your height I didn’t know to be honest. I knew you were tallish just in general, but it’s hard to tell on video. Yeah. 5’9″ I think is like right in the average 5’9, 5’10. So, okay. But my brother is about your height. We 6’3. Well, I think I’m 6’1. 6’1. Okay. But at the most. Yeah. Yeah. So, this is the as I’m approaching Planet Doug. Yeah. Things go wrong. Yeah. So, I don’t have any tools here. Yeah. So, I think what I’m going to do this is a hard flat. Like it went back like like that. So, I don’t know where it’s at. I have my backpack off. This is the first time I’ve actually trying to use it this way. I just noticed you’ve got the famous Pocket 3 running. Check that out. Yeah. So, you remember I had this strapped to hair. This is actually how it’s supposed to, right? I remember when you bought that and I was thinking I’ve had similar things like that that attached to a strap and they never actually worked. They were too loose and they’re flopping around. Honestly, I think that it’s basically it’s in my garbage pile. But you paid money on something and so it’s like ah. So, this is the first time actually wearing it the way it’s supposed to. Right. Right. Right. Right. So, how far is the hotel from here? The problem I have is you have tool for the reaching into there. Like all my tools are in Port Dickson. Like my bike is in Port Dickson. I have nothing here. Oh, okay. So, so I need to actually probably go find like I said, I have an adjustable wrench. I just it doesn’t it just can’t get in there. Okay. Huh? Yeah. So, it doesn’t hold any air at all. No. No. Because it was so fat. Flat. Okay. Just immediate. We’re not that far away. I mean, it’s reasonable to walk it there. I think I just have to lift up a little on the back. I mean, we’re we’re just I walked to get here. It’s like 1 and 1/2 km to the hotel. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That’s said 1.4 or something like that. So, that’s supposed So, if we if we can’t fix it here, we don’t have a choice. So, you pretty much have to roll it. You probably won’t do any damage to the rim. No, I’m not. Plus, it’s a cheap rim anyway. Yeah. Yeah. That’s the American Hobo ethos, right? Here’s the new seat, right? Look at that. I got one with the springs and I realized that’s not probably the best thing to do. The this is very uncomfortable. When did you get that? I got there’s only two seats at like the at the Mr. DIY, here. So, it was I better take this off. So, there was like two seats I had to choose from. The other one just completely fell apart. So, I have no idea like if the footage is going to come out on this, so it’s easier just to hand it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that’s what you’re used to, right? Right. Yeah. Yeah. So, turn it off.
That’s just a cut. That way I can adjust it later. And I have a really long segment. So normally when I’m riding a bicycle, I don’t usually have it pointed at me, but I’ll have it pointed straight ahead. Yeah. Then I just swing. So that’s why I had originally get these. You switch the brakes. Switch. I remember that. Most of the time I’m just doing one-handed. All right. So all right, Doug. I’m going to turn mine off for now. I run mine 24/7. So, it’s just what I do. So, because I need two hands to push the bike, right? Right. Of course. So, this will be kind of interesting because I’ll be filming you as you’re filming me and going to watch the video later. So, YouTube Inception, I’ve done it a few times, the people that I’ve run into. But it is a very high honor to meet you, brother. Well, you wouldn’t believe how much since I’ve gotten going that you stepped in. I know you came over cuz one of your friends sent the video to you. Yeah, I think so. Yeah. Yeah, that’s how it usually happens. It was it was so nice to actually have someone helping me out on my my my page. So, yeah, this has been one of the And like you said, you can only keep up with like maybe two maybe three YouTubers. Yeah. But you don’t have time. You don’t have time. And it was crazy learning how much how much time is actually involved in this crazy [ __ ] Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You really got to I have to I have to document the rolling of the bike down the train platform and it popped off in the back. So, the flat’s a bit of an issue cuz now the the tire popped off the rim. Yeah. I just kind of carry it like this. But hopefully you don’t have to do it for a kilometer and a half. Ah, I got to do this, huh? Oh, no. There’s a lift.
There it is. Famous P bags. Everything to me is famous. The famous pannier bags, the famous helmet. Man, those were good deal right there. Those were really good over at Decathlon. I think they were like 50 ringgit. 50 50 ringgit or 60 ringgit. Oh, really? Yeah, it’s fairly cheap.
How heavy is your pack? We can switch if you want. It’s light. Or I can put mine on there. And I don’t know. It’s cuz you normally have it strapped down, right? Yeah. No, I just did this to kind of keep from that happening, but it happened anyway, right? We’re not getting any rate. The Planet Doug effect is I don’t know. The elevator won’t come up, I guess. Step away from the thing. Seems like Get away. No, it’s Yeah, the elevator’s definitely not working. Yeah, it’s not. We’re going down the stairs. Yeah, Daniel. No, no problem. No. No choice. That sounds awful. Yeah, well, you can get it on video. Come to Putra Station, Daniel. Doug says it’ll be easy, he says. I wouldn’t even want to know what type of problems I would have at the other one. Next thing this is what I’m putting the American Hobo through. He has to carry his bike down off these steep stairs. But you’ve done this before in KL lots of times, right? Not a lot of times because I kind of did took the option of running across traffic, right? Okay.
He’s got the power of the QR code. Yeah. Oh, you’re just just clocking out like that.
Ah, not enough balance. What did it say? Not enough balance. Oh, well, who where do I Yeah, there’s no people here. Let’s see. We’ll figure it out. Ah, the Planet Doug effect. Awesome.
I just check on it. Yeah, he’s just checking the balance on the card. While they’re doing that, let’s take another look at the bike. There’s the flags. He sews them on. Very nice. American Hobo painted on.
All right. Just letting him out. And I’ve got mine, which should work.
All right. There we go.
Looking for a bathroom. It’s over here. No. No. I got to pay. Okay. Okay. You got to come out here. Yeah, that makes sense.
How much? 10 ringgit. Okay, that’s it. Check this out. It works. American ingenuity at its finest. No hands. Yeah. He’s actually got his bike lock like gone through his rear rack. Yes, sir. and he’s turned it into a shoulder strap basically lifting up the entire back of his bike. And I mean makes it easier.
So I don’t think I’ve been on this side of town yet. Chow Kit. You might into Chow Kit. It’s hard. Yeah, we’re sort of on the edges of Chow Kit here, are we? So it’s good to do like a little hostel hopping once in a while. Yeah, I did that in in Vietnam in Hanoi. So that’s how I Hanoi is so big, right? That I just went from cheap hostel to cheap hostel. Stayed like a few days in H1, explored that side of the city. It works out well. Yeah. But that was before I had a bike. Bicycles open a whole world, man. Yeah. for that’s why even if I give up this one, I’d still like to get like a little foldable cuz walking’s just too slow. There’s an American traveler in town that I’ve known for a few years, Jamie. Yeah. And he does that deliberately where he’ll just pick a random neighborhood like I don’t know what’s there, but I’ll book a room at a hotel in that neighborhood and find out and then the next trip you’ll pick a new neighborhood and then a new one. Yeah. You kind of do that. Yeah. Regardless if you’re if you don’t know this the town like town I stayed in last night. You can discover some very nice places that way. Even the roads I take I just kind of take it because it’s going in the right direction. Yeah. The whole east side was like that beautiful, beautiful beaches and stuff,
but the infrastructure on the east side wasn’t quite as much as it is here on the west side. But the opportunity for camping was great.
There’s the the KL we both know and love trying to get across all these highway systems, right? Yeah.
Yeah, KL is
all of Malaysia is actually the roads just are not well thought out. No, not at all. Probably the worst I’ve seen. The condition of them is not bad. It’s just the design. Yeah. And you see that like over in JB where JB Sentral they’re putting in a big old octopus of like a road and it’s brand new. They spend a lot of money to make it very very very complicated. I remember it from your video. Yeah. And Yeah. I got lost in there. I was able to get out fairly easy though by accident. Yeah. And we can stay at ground level. And I’m just curious if this elevator works. Just out of curiosity.
Yeah, it is. Oh, yeah, it does. It has Oh, where are we going? We’re heading this way. Okay, we can stay We can stay on the ground. Sounds good. Cuz the other elevator wouldn’t work. Yeah, it’s true. I just think this giant like pedestrian crossing is kind of cool. Yeah, but not with the bike.
I started to feel more and more sorry for him. So, in case anybody thinks I’m leaving him to suffer, I am now carrying the the pannier bags, which makes this bike on the rear end anyway. Significantly lighter, I hope. And it only cost me 40 ringgit. Yeah, that’s what he’s paying me, right, to carry it. Uh-huh.
So, trip update. Daniel, how are your arms feeling hanging in there? Yeah. Yeah. Doing all right. I appreciate the help out on the bags.
It’s we’re almost there. I don’t think I mentioned it, but Daniel booked a room for a couple of nights at the same hotel where I am right now. The Raja Bot. Yeah. Yeah. I don’t think you mentioned Yeah. Up to the Thursday because that was the time you said you might be Yeah. Hey, you booked up to Thursday. So, I figure out a convenience and stuff through this Yeah.
Plus, this puts me on a new side of town that I really wasn’t exploring a lot of. Now, if you got the time, it’s a great neighborhood to get to know. There’s a lot going on here in Chow Kit in terms of like local, what you see around you right now. There’s market stuff. Very local, very bustling, especially at night. I’ll put it right here. We’ve arrived. Not just a moment too, not a moment too soon with that sun beating down. Yeah.
American Hobo start wondering why am I riding around the world on a bicycle again?
Well, I reserve the option to change that at any time. At any time. That’s the whole That’s the whole point of having a cheap $100 bike. That doesn’t look too secure there. Now it does. And your handlebar bag is okay out here still. Yeah, for now. Okay. Or whatever’s in there. Yeah, that should be fine. All right, let me get up. An opening shot and all that fun stuff. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Get to see the American Hobo in action with his Pocket 3. Do one still shot.
Oh, nope. Wrong one. Get one still shot. Yeah, it’s pretty hot. Yeah, they do. I know. That’s probably probably one of the biggest problems. All right. 209. I can still take this for you. All right. H. Okay. But you gave me the good room, right? He’s like, I gave you the same room.
Yes. Yes. Yes. All right. Let’s go. We up to two. Second floor. Oh, what was your name? I’m sorry. I’m Daniel.
Fine. Fine. Nice to meet you guys. Oh, number two. He’s saying I’m fine. So, what’s your name? He’s like, “I’m fine.” Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I’m at 209. Yeah. So, yeah. Your room doesn’t have a window, I guess. So, this looks like you. I’m just around the corner. I got the premium room. Same price. But I see how I haven’t seen one of these standard like normal standard twins or standard double, whatever it is. Oh, you just hold it flat. A flat one. Yeah. I guess they don’t make those anymore. Let’s see. There’s Home Sweet Home. Hope it Ah, this is good. Works out. Smells good in here. I don’t know how how much this little slams shut. No. All right.
All right. Yeah. Just set them anywhere. Oh, yeah. There. Oh, yeah. Okay. Yeah. Not bad. Air conditioner looks good. You got a kettle. Yeah. Awesome. I got to have a cup of coffee now. Mine has a hair blower. Yours does, too. Actually, I’m starting to get hair. All right, brother. I’m heading out for lunch. You can join if you feel like it, or you can get stuck in trying to get your bike fixed or whatever you need to do. I was going to go to there’s like a Pakistani buffet kind of thing. You just fill your plate with whatever you want. Yeah, I will. I’ve been there quite often for lunch. I’m in the mood for it today. Yeah, I’m not in a big hurry to go fix that tire. I can not in this heat right now, so I haven’t eaten yet. So Let me You need to drop your stuff off or you just heading right out the door? I can just head right out the door. Yeah, I don’t need to. Okay. Well, I’m going to use the restroom real quick and Yeah, I’ll go with you. All right, cool. I’ll just be outside. Okay.
All right, we got two cameras, two YouTubers, and we’re trying to eat a meal here. So, he took me Doug here. Let me see if I get this without zooming in. Nope. I still have not perfected that yet. There we go. So, he took me to one of the spots that he comes to. I got the beef, potato dish, regular rice, and Oh, yeah. It’s very good. I ended up with two meat dishes. This is the beef. And then there’s another one. The guy told me the name. It’s a Pakistani meal. Korma, I think he called it. Korma. Yeah. Now, that’s beef, too, right? Yeah. That’s also beef
and I went with the vegetarian potatoes with bell peppers.
Oh, that’s stew. That tastes like stew. Anyway, guys, good food, good company. This Hobo is happy.
So Daniel and I just had lunch at this Pakistani place and I’m feeling pretty wiped out now after a lot of food putting me to sleep. But I guess Daniel’s got to deal with the tire. Yeah, I’m kind of tired, too. And the sun’s kind of doing that that heat. Yeah, but I have to try and figure out how to get this off. And I’m going to try and cinch this side down again, see if that helps. But
anyway, yeah, it’s fun, fun, fun. I will leave you to it. You got in the bike this far, I’m sure you’ll get it to the next stage. Yeah. Yeah. It’s just another another thing. I mean, it’s a it’s a rolls can hardly it’s rolls down one hill, can hardly get up the next. So, it’s free. So I don’t have to go searching for a new tool. It was my dumb old old dumb fault of doing it. So I’m still gonna blame it on Doug though.
So there we go. Hey, this is a four things wrong, one thing right. We’re doing good. It’s all uphill for now from from here. So figured it out. That’s it. Cool. I don’t have to go looking for a new tool.