Going Country
Our uncle and aunt took us on a Sunday ride in the countryside, going through small towns and villages, coconut, banana, and palm oil plantations, pepper (as in white and black peppercorns) and rice fields, and longhouse communities to visit my cousin and his wife in their rural convenience shop. Here’s the river ferry Another rural roadside stalls—they are everywhere on rural roads It is good to see how people live, how simple their lives are, how little they have,…