Exotic Travel
23 October 2007
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No, I don’t mean Malaysian Borneo, I mean rural Michigan. Travel + Leisure Magazine proves that exotic is purely a matter of perspective when it sends a reporter to my Mom and Dad’s farm! Read the article and then hurry to volunteer before Three Roods Farm starts charging you for the privilege.
By the way: that stylish colorful shirt my mother is wearing? Straight outta Sarawak.
Love it!
Wow! Can I go and live there? (rhetorical question)
Very true: ‘exotic is purely a matter of perspective’. I will certainly find rural Michigan very exotic.
assalamualaikum bingregory…
selamat hari raya, maaf zahir batin to u n family…
u must be so proud… ‘scuse the lameness but isn’t the picture missing a pitchfork hehe…
Zylia,
yeah, I think they cropped it out. If you look closely, my dad’s arm is extended. They’ve actually posed for campy “american gothic”-type photos like that before.
Wow, that’s wonderful for them
May God bless their hard work. My wife grew up on a farm, and she is the smartest person I know when it comes to so many things because of it. I hope some of it rubbed off on you 
Ya Haqq!
Asalaamu alaikum.
Wow, two surprising coincidences we share in one day… the tariqa and Michigan… alhamdulAllah.
Your parents’ farm looks lovely, mashaAllah.
wa alaykum salam.
You, Saifuddin and I – it’s a trifecta! You should come out to Flint if you get a chance. The masjid there is lovely.
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