so this is it this is everything basically that I have in the entire
world as far as stuff goes yes I have a couple suitcases at my mom's place
with some like childhood sort of stuff but ever since I started traveling full time
this is it it still feels a bit surreal sometimes to think that this is my full-time job and all the
places that I've gotten to see over the last few years how much freedom I have in my work
because this is obviously a far cry from uh how I used to live my life in Toronto being in the
film industry kind of being chained to being there for castings I do get the question a lot though of
people asking you know how are you able to make YouTube a full-time job and you know how long
did it take to build up your business and maybe I will do a whole video on that sometime explaining
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description for you guys to check it out so I am basically all ready to go and before I do I
wanted to give you guys a quick tour of the room uh in a guest house that I was staying at here in
Tokyo I rent from the same company that I have all the other times before that I have come to stay
in Tokyo obviously this is more for longer term I'm able to rent this room in a really good area
of Tokyo it's in Hiro and for the monthly rate it is a minimum of a one month stay I am paying only
800 US dollars if you've looked at the prices of airbnbs and hotels in Tokyo you will understand
just how good of a deal this place is especially actually in this area so I am very happy so I'm
just waiting on the manager to come from Fontana that's the company that I rent from and just look
everything over I'm gonna give her the keys and then my friend Shigeru is coming to pick me up
and very kindly helping me to take all of this because it is quite heavy to the airport because
today is a rainy day and I don't particularly want to walk to the train station [Music] oh
all right guys we are almost at the airport I want to say a big thank you to Shigeru
hello for driving me to the airport because it's especially a very very rainy day today
so today I actually have a very special flight where I am flying WestJet
direct from Tokyo to Calgary this is a new route they just started and I hope that it
is going to go great because if it does I will 100 percent prefer to fly that instead
of Air Canada where you have to transfer uh through Vancouver and it's also on their new
Dreamliner so I'm actually really looking forward to this flight but before I check
in the moment of truth I have to check if these bags are overweight thankfully WestJet actually
doesn't check your carry-on weight so that is a godsend I can pack that one as full as
I can but this guy can only be a Max of 23 kilos and I feel like I'm right on that line
slightly over but not too bad it says 24.58 kilos that's actually
not that bad it shouldn't be too difficult to move about a
kilo maybe to my carry-on and then one kilo I'm fine with throwing out
and that is how it's done friends right under the limit very grateful for these
scales that guy is completely packed full of everything that I could bring I did have
to throw out a couple of other things but it's not a big deal and now I have about
a 30-40 minute wait until WestJet opens its Gates so I can check in
yeah yeah
I will be having dinner here as well but what should I have as my last lunch
in Tokyo maybe some soba actually it would be a really good choice
how perfect does this look amazing last meal or last lunch I should say here in
Tokyo I got my favorite warm soba since I prefer that over cold I got the veggie and
seafood at tempura which comes on Rice you get some pickles some tofu and all together
this was about 15 US Dollars obviously a bit more since we are at the airport
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it's so great to see Narita this busy and with this many shops and restaurants open
because I don't know if you guys remember but when I was going to Indonesia the first stop
of this trip 10 months ago I transferred through Narita and while I was happy to
do that to have even just one bowl of Japanese ramen in my layover it was quite sad because at
least half of the places were closed and it wasn't this busy I would say I think
in the last couple of months things have definitely changed in Japan once they got
rid of the Mask mandates that probably brought a lot more tourism to them in the last while
oh hell yeah I am a hundred percent doing a massage chair session so they have a 10
minute minimum so let's put in about two dollars I don't have my Google translate
with me right now so I'm just pressing random buttons and hoping for the best
pretty good
Beyonce here please come to me
I just realized that it has been a month and a half since I was last on a flight I think that's
the longest time that I have gone in probably years when I was traveling Europe I crossed
borders by bus or just by car but in South America and Southeast Asia I was always going to the
next destination with flights just because it was easier and cheaper so yeah this month in Tokyo has
been the longest time that I have been outside of an airport in probably two years but we are on the
home stretch my flight should be boarding in about an hour we're leaving at 6 45 and then I will be
arriving back to Calgary at 12 30 noon obviously I hope I get at least a little bit of sleep
because when I get back to Canada I really want to regulate my internal clock to be going to bed at 8
nine o'clock because I have a trip coming up as soon as I land that I really need to be well
rested for so we will see how that goes but uh wish me luck and I will do a voice over review
of this WestJet Dreamliner flight to Calgary so it was in this moment that I made a grave
mistake without even knowing it which was not having dinner as planned at the airport I wasn't
hungry at the time so I just figured they should be feeding us at least two or three times on the
plane right it's a nine hour flight everything else was fine the seats were comfortable the
entertainment system was quite good the staff was nice but I could not believe that for the
nine hours that I was on this flight we only got served dinner the only other possibility was that
I was asleep when they were serving it but I don't think that's possible because I couldn't
sleep because I was so hungry and I was checking the clock like every 15 20 minutes so yeah it was
a very uncomfortable flight because I basically only had one meal in the span of 14 hours and I
was up the whole time the only positive thing was that they had My Best Friend's Wedding on
the entertainment system so I just counted down the hours to get to Calgary take a look at this
fabulous welcome that my lovely mom has made for me thank you so much so sweet of you I am
so ready to eat this considering I technically haven't eaten in like nine hours I still can't
get over the fact they didn't give us breakfast on a nine hour flight so this is going to be much
appreciated so that is it guys I am going to eat have a shower and try and keep myself awake until
eight or nine because I really need to have my sleep schedule be semi-on normal time because in
two days I will actually be off on a PR trip for a really cool brand it is within Canada but still
like I need to be able to function during that time so I really hope that my sleep's not going
to be too messed up with the jet lag so I hope you guys enjoyed this video let me know your thoughts
in the comments it feels really good to be back in Canada other than the fact that I'm extremely
exhausted but I hope you guys are ready for lots of awesome content here in Canada for a few months
and as always I'm sending you so much love and keep being your own kind of beautiful bye guys
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