Good morning from beautiful Kagoshima Prefecture
I am going to train now heading south from Kagoshima City to Ibusuki start this amazing Hitchhiking adventure
I flew in the Kagoshima yesterday from Tokyo the fligt was really nice because its flew directly over Mt. Fuji
I don't think I've seen it's so close from such a high distance that look really majestic
And then I arrived in Kagoshima to rain. And there're not much could doing in Kagoshima when It's trainning except eat
Shiirokuma which is like a Kakigoori but insead of putting flavored syrups there's a sweetened milk on top then they put a lot of stuff all around it
We even had a really cute coffee with the Shirokuma logo on it "Shirokuma" meaning white bear
That was a nice cappuccino and then I got to do something for eat something that I didn't get to do the last summer
Eat it one of the Kagoshima top Kurobuta Tonkatsu restaurant which was amazing the pork cutlet was so juicy
and salad and Miso soup and rice it just was one of the most perfect lunch I've ever had
Now I'm heading to Ibusuki which I'll be there is a few minutes
This is where I filmed the volcanic sand bath experience episode or the Sunamushi Onsen
I don't know when I need a chance to go there but what I want to do is go to the tip and fly my drone and get a realy impressive view of one of the corners of this amazing country
And from there I guess I'm planning to spend the night in my tent in Ibusuki and then from there start the hitchhiking
Let's see how today go
This is the end of Kyushu. this is Kagoshima prefecture, Nagasaki-bana and 14 years ago in 2003, this is where I ended my last hitchhiking trip from Wakkanai to Kagoshima
And when I just stepped off from that lighthouse and I saw these rocks here and I saw that volcano in the background
It brought back all those memories of the 20 people at that time who took time out of ther day to drive me somewhere for free
And just the ultimate kindness of strangers here in Japan
it's one reason probably the reason why I'm still here today because that trip was a pivotal time in my life
where I wasn't sure whether I was going to go back to the United States to stay in Japan
And decides to stay because it just was such an amazing country to me we didn't have YouTube in 2003
We didn't have high definition or 4K
Since that time ending in 2003 I have been wanting to do this hitchhiking trip one more time and now I can do it I can bring you with me throuhg YouTube
across this great land of Japan to Hokkaido
for the next month I'm going to be here checking on the road and tehy told you on the train
and it's just this is a great spot for me to proclaim it put it in so and say I'm going to do this thing I'm a fight for the next month to share the experience
I want you to feel like you'll with me
I want you to feel like you can explore Japan the same way than I am
I want to share what I saw in 2003
I want to share what I felt in 2003 about this amazing country
I was at a pivotal point in my life where I didn't know whether or not I was going to stay in Japan or go back to the United States
And I decided to keep I was going to stay here for a long time I should find out what this country is really all about
After that trip after the kindness of strangers and how amazing the people are, they really are when you're out here
That moved me so much that I'm still here 14 years later and it sort of why I want to do this trip again
So over the next month, I'll be on the road bringing these scene like this
And Nagasakibana and other things and meeting real people,
real life at work, hard working everyday people
bringing you places that can't normally see
as a tourist places that you probably wouldn't see if you couldn't speak Japanese
or a little bit places probably couldn't go to if you only had it a week or two
That's the purpose of this trip is to show you something you're never seen before
Give you an experience that is so powerful as a body of work I'm hoping that this month of travel means something to you as much as it did to me in 2004
And if it does just a little bit then I can say that my time it's totally worth it
And we're going to have an amazing adventures again and at this spot I just want to proclaim that the trip is on oh yeah the trip on it we're going to take it all the way to a Hokkaido
Baby starting right now
It was fun to go back to Nagasakibana
This is Ibusuki near Ibusuki station and
The sun's going down you can see behing me
It's going to be dark soon and I don't really have time to hitchhike back to the city of Kagoshima
So, I'm going I think this's be better spot to camp anyway I'm going to find Ibusuki park in camp here
Now camping in Japan is a little bit gray area you can't camp anywhere legally but
there's sort of an unwritten rule that if you pitch your tent when the sun goes down and you clear out of there when the sun goes up no one really minds too much
So, you t make a mess and you clean up by yoursefl
Ibusuki park on the map is not far away from Ibusuki cemetery, so I'm not sure to be such a fun camp place
We're going to check it out
See if we can pitch a tent here, you know look okay
On another note I have way too much luggage
but that was sort of necessary half of the stuff in this bag is cable,
tripots, the drone, batteries and
what I'm wearing is pretty much what I'll be wearing for the rest of the month I'll find a laundry mart or something
That good thing is that everywhere in Japan they have bathtubs, Sentos and Onsens
Okay here's the park, I think this looks like a pretty good spot to camp right underneath there by the tree
Maybe not on the soccer field but this looks pretty good
Okay so I haven't eaten anything all day I'm going to get some a bite to eat
We'll be back here to camp underneath that tree
get my onion tree
So I wonder what kind of food this city has
I introduced this foot bath in the volcanic sand bath experience episode and finally I get a chance to dip my feet in and after walking all day
Okay so that tree I wanted to camp out before is a big light underneath if Ican't really stay there so I'm going to pitch my tent right underneath this beautiful tree right here
Good enough welcome to my beautiful tent
Two people can sleep in here or one person and a lot of luggage
Here's my Dell computer I'm going to be using this to edit the video tonight if I can
The winds picked up I can hear the rain pattering on the roof on the rain cover
I'll be okay this park looks pretty cozy as long as I get up around 6 am I should fine but
I saw on the map that there's a cemetery not that far away and
If you ever watch this movie called The Blair Witch Project your imagination might start running a little bit more than it should
when you're camping by yourself in the dark
I can go wind is blowing the tent left and right
And you're not sure if you're supposed to be here
But yeah they all work to do hang in there I know I will
Good night
The weather report said cloudy not rain not like this