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Vic PlaylistApple Music • SpotifyTRANSCRIPTA long time ago, I used to have some friends who liked to go around the country by riding freight trainsThey'd hitch out of Omaha or Lincoln or usually Kansas City and end up in Pennsylvania or Montana, California, ArizonaI never caught a ride with any of themI didn't really ever have the chanceBut I liked to sit with them on the rails and the bridges and watch the trains go byAnd they'd tell me about the different kinds of cars and which ones were good rides, where they were going, what you had to look out forMaybe that's why when I went for a walk recently and found an old abandoned railroad trestle in the western part of Victoria's downtown in Canada, where I live now. I climbed over a fence and went and sat on it for a whileAnd I've been going back to it, sitting there and watching cars go by, people, a couple of stories up above the groundI don't really have anything else to say but that, just a funny memory, I guessMaybe a reflection about living in an urban place because I've lived out in the countryside for so long nowRead more here This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.walkaround.run