The sun has really come out since I first got here! So this is a spot that me and my
friends actually found by accident. It's a little bit busier now - summer holidays for
the kids and it is also a Saturday and it's a beautiful day! I actually just spoke for
like 20 or 30 minutes, I'm pretty sure I'm sunburned on my back from it, to one of the
other guys that's here also swimming and he was saying, he really loves doing camping
and he likes survival kinds of stuff. He was like "yeah like I I often like find and catch
snakes even like mamushi" which is like the most deadly snake in Japan he'll like catch
them kill them and then eat them which is insane! And he was like "yeah my friends were
telling me I should start a YouTube channel" I'm like you should absolutely start a YouTube
channel that's [ __ ] crazy ah but anyway, beautiful spot! I might jump in once more
before I go because it's really nice.
I was just driving along and then I saw this antique store I want to see!
holy [ __ ] This is amazing!
I'm being serve tea and a tiny little antique shop in
the middle of Japan...
I'm really glad I stopped here!
so cute, I just noticed that he moved my shoes from where I took them off
to onto the step so that it's easier to put them on again, look!
I spent so long in that store! Way longer than I thought I would. I did buy a couple
of things, I don't know if I need them or anything like that but I just couldn't walk
away without buying something. I got some of these awesome like postcards and then also
just like this little vase. I think he said it's from like hospitals and stuff like it's
used to hold medicine but maybe I can use it as like a tiny little vase to hold a flower
or something cute. Ah the road trip's off to a good start! I say road trip it's like
5 p.m and I'm like I need to find a campsite oh no!
omg it's gorgeous out here
oh man last night was a bit of a failure... um also I'm sorry for the massive bags under
my eyes but yeah last night was a total failure! So the the camping spot that I was planning
to go to I don't know why I didn't take into account the fact that it's a Saturday and
everything was busy! But I was like oh it's fine like I'll just drive around and find
somewhere else, you know not really accounting for the fact that I don't really have much
internet on my phone so I couldn't really look up many places and then I was driving
around to spots and then it just didn't work out and then I go to another place and then
it was full and then the sun went down and then it was pitch black! So I didn't get here
until 8 30 p.m so I didn't get to show you like setting up the tent and cooking dinner
and everything but that's okay! Today is another day and I know that I'm going to a really
good camping spot tonight so I'll show everything then. Um but yeah this is the inside of the
rooftop tent! It's the first time actually sleep sleeping in it and it's so much more
comfortable than a regular tent. The only one thing that I wasn't really expecting was
that... um camping by yourself in the middle of an area that you're not really familiar
with, where you're the only one there it's uh... it's actually kind of scary! I was like
very freaked out last night. I know Japan's a very safe country obviously but you know
there's bad people everywhere in the world and I am a solo female. Maybe it's just something
I need to get used to? I don't know, should I get used to it? Anyway it's time for some
breakfast and then I can show you what a miserable camping spot
I found last night lol
all right so as of one person it's a little more difficult than I thought it would be
but I mean obviously I'm not used to packing it away yet so I'm assuming that it's going
to get easier? I hope? I'll figure it out I need to be independent!
Wow
This would've been a way better camping spot, had I known about it further in advance! Oh
I really have to pee...
It's so funny like there's a bit of traffic on this bridge here and then the lane passing
me caught my eye, It's a massive like FJ Cruiser with huge Wheels, big lift, a big bull bar
and everything and I was like [ __ ] that's a good car and then the one behind it was
a Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, white, a winch, lift again, like massive bull bar and another Jeep
behind it and they're like two cars down there was this huge [ __ ] massive like Tundra
I don't know what what brand Tundra is but it was so big also with a winch and a lift
and wheels and like all this extra stuff. It was so funny though because like as we're
driving past you can tell we're both just looking at each other like "nice nice nice
nice" just checking out what gear is on the car and we're like giving each other a thumbs
up. So funny! Wow, I've never experienced that before because I've never had a cool
car before. Also I didn't see the number plates but I wanna like ask them where you guys from?
Like why do you have such a hectic setup? And where are you driving because I want to
drive where you're driving! It's fun having a cool car I get it now!
so this is what I was hoping to film last night but I didn't plan accordingly
I had so much fun on this trip and I hope that you can tell that from the video! I even
had a lot of fun editing it and everything like that. I'm going to talk about the locations
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I don't know there was something so special about it. It's like everything that I was
working towards, all of the effort Chris and I put into building the back of it out and
getting the rooftop tent and everything set up. You know we did all of it by ourselves
and it was just really fun to be able to try it all out for the first time. It just felt
right! Everything about this trip felt right and I felt like it really suited me. I felt
like I, not like ticked something off my list, but I started something that I'm really looking
forward to doing more of in the future. Yeah anyway so the locations that I went to! So
the first place that I went to I mentioned it previously it's like right next to Lake
biwa on the other side of the mountains called Addo River so lovely really really nice place
to swim. I'm not sure where that little spot that I stopped at for breakfast was I'm sorry
I've got no idea I just kind of like stopped on the side of the road. I'm gonna have to
pin all these locations that I randomly stop at. But that waterfall that I went to was
called Iwamon waterfall. I've been wanting to go there for a while! I've just got pins
all over my Google Maps in Japan and and it's great, like now I can just kind of drive around
and tick all of these little like pins and places off my list. The camping spot at the
end... I'm kinda torn here... I don't want to say it because I love it so much and it's
just so it's so beautiful and I don't want it to get overcrowded but I will tell you...
it is on the nagara, nagara, nagaragawa, nagara river. It's along there, you could probably
find it if you like searching on Google Maps. I didn't show too much else from my camping
at that second location because I've shown it a couple of times in my videos and I don't
want to be too repetitive but uh yeah I really love that spot, it's beautiful! And that's
it! That's all that I've got to say. Would you like to say hi? Oh is it recording? Yeah.
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