This morning (November 3, 2025), Daniel, AKA American Hobo, packed up his bicycle and rode it to the Kuala Lumpur train station. The plan was to roll it onto a KTM Komuter train to Seremban and then ride his bicycle from Seremban to Port Dickson. If all goes well and he gets to Port Dickson early enough, he will spend one night there and then board a ferry to Sumatra, Indonesia, the very next morning.
I stopped by the train station myself because I wanted to see Daniel off and offer him any help if necessary. As it turned out, my help wasn’t needed because Daniel’s good friend and supporter Arish was also there. And Arish helped Daniel figure out which train to take and how to buy a ticket. That’s a good thing because I was shooting a separate video on my way to the train station, which meant that I arrived later than I planned, and I was a bit flustered with GoPro batteries running out of power at the wrong moments and things like that.
The day before, I was chatting with Daniel online to help him pick a time to take the train. And I downloaded the latest train schedule from the KTMB website. Unfortunately, I somehow downloaded an old schedule. I thought it was the newest most up-to-date schedule, but somehow I got an old one, and the 11:26 train I told Daniel about didn’t exist! I was so embarrassed. I thought I was helping Daniel, and I ended up giving him incorrect information. I honestly don’t know what happened. Now, when I go to the KTMB website, there is a brand new updated schedule dated from August 25! I could swear it wasn’t on the website yesterday. But that August 25 schedule is the most recent one, and so my information was incorrect.
As it turned out, there WAS a train at 11:26, but it only went to KL Sentral and stopped there. And then we had to wait at KL Sentral for an hour and a half until the next train could take Daniel to Seremban. Because of my bad information and bad advice, Daniel was starting his trip much later than was wise. If I’d given him the proper schedule, he probably would have taken the 10:26 train and arrived in Seremban with plenty of time. But I had led him astray, and he ended up on the 12:56 train, which arrived in Seremban at 3:47 p.m. And Daniel still had 35 kilometers to cycle down busy highways to get to Port Dickson.
I believe he did make it to Port Dickson. I got a message from Daniel at 6 p.m., and he was just seven kilometers from the ferry terminal. So he did manage to get to Port Dickson before dark. But I don’t know if he was able to go to the Indomal Fast Ferry office and buy a ticket before they closed. We shall have to wait and see what happened. It wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world if he wasn’t able to get a ticket and has to spend an extra day and night in Port Dickson. That will give him more time to complete the online arrival card for Indonesia and otherwise prepare for the ferry trip. Perhaps getting on the ferry the very next morning would have been a bit rushed. But we shall see. Daniel might even just go to the ferry terminal in the morning and see if he can buy a ticket on the spot for that day. Assuming the ferry isn’t sold out, he should be able to do that.