By Justino There is a moment when you are travelling in a foreign environment that you completely break away from your daily routines, let go of your life and worries at home, and live in the moment. That moment for me was 3:00 am yesterday on a sleeper train somewhere between Saigon and Da Nang. I woke up surrounded by the sounds of families sleeping and the clatter of the train on the tracks. I grabbed a bottle of water, some toothpaste, and my toothbrush and stumbled to the toilet that you were only allowed to use in between stations because the metal hole in the ground just dumped out on the train tracks. I tried not to look in the mirror, brushed my teeth, rinsed out my mouth, and spat into the metal hole. When
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