7 Days 7 Minutes (2014-05-19) Casio Selfie Cam, The Seaside, Yoyogi Park and more...

00:00 MONDAY Casio Selfie Camera
01:00 TUESDAY Biked to the Beach <location>
02:00 WEDNESDAY Just Another Day <GH4 Review on Akihabara News>
03:00 THURSDAY Rambling On
04:00 FRIDAY Mc Mission <location1> <Location2> <location3>
05:00 SATURDAY Perfect Park Day <location>
06:00 notSUNDAY The Chuo Main line <location>

Going Ape

I took a ride down to Enoshima yesterday, partially because I could partially because I wanted to get some longer distance experience on Matt's bike. While I was there I decided to take some photos of it.



It's a tiny bike too small for me both from a size and an engine capacity standpoint but considering I'm being lent it for the price of whatever parts are needed to keep it running, I am not complaining too much. That said, due to it's size compared to my wide ass, I'm gonna need to get a carrier rack of sorts cos any rides over an hour long are going to be hell on my lower back with a backpack (this ride was 3 and a half hours -__- )



It was great weather for a ride though, not cold, but not too hot. And riding along the coast is always going to be awesome. These longer rides are not going to be a regular thing though. It just takes too damn long on the 50cc to get anywhere. I need to work toward having a steady monthly income so I can get my car back and use that for longer drives and eventually get my proper bigger bike license and get a 250cc for close commutes and city travel.



Till then this will keep me going. Even with the fatiguing ride, having the freedom to go wherever the hell I want whenever I want, is EPIC. It took about as long as the train to get to the coast and it was more tiring, but there was so much less stress and I found some interesting things along the way that I'd never find on the steel tubes of misery. The bike was also way cheaper. This trip cost me about ¥400 as opposed to almost ¥1500 on the zombie line.

Okinawa Scapes ~5 hit combo~

Thanks for all the comments on the Japan, How It Is - Driving Around Okinawa vid. I basically covered everything I wanted to say about it in the vid...

Besides, words cannot describe the beauty of  Okinawa.

Japan, How It Is - Driving around Okinawa.

Midwinter in Okinawa. I had time and a rental car... So I drove. And talked. And drove.

tunage once again by Manny Marx off his album Vagabond. Check it out. Download it free, or pay what you can.

as always, Like if you like it, dislike if you dislike it and leave a comment here ort on the video telling me what you think!

Fukui City, Fukui Prefecture [On Location 1]

I spent a day in Fukui Prefecture with my old university buddy. We checked out a few things and chatted about the place. Take a look.

Shots #88 …I know it’s been some time…

If there is one thing that the mac just can’t do, it’s blog well. All the blog editing software that is halfway decent costs a fortune and still can’t do shit compared to windows live writer for free. But being my mobile machine it tends to be the thing that gets photos off the camera and thus I need to trasfer the pics from the mac lappie to the windows deskie. Since the SSD and reinstall on the deskie.. I have been to lazy to make my network work again… till now. Expect a bunch of backlog over the next month or 2.

Oh and we went to the beach too !

Frikkin’ Dinosaurs!

When we went to Tohoku in golden week. We took a trip up the coast (again for me) to Jodogahama. Repairs have come along a bit since last summer. They now have frikkin’ DINOSAURS!!!!!

No idea why though. It does suit the scenery i suppose. all we needed was some of THIS.

Golden Week Volunteering 2012: Part 1 - Sanriku Ditches

I went back to Ofunato this golden week. This time however I was in a rather large company of ALTs who wanted to join me. There were two who had been before but all the rest were first timers.

Ofunato Summer 2011 Volunteering - Break Time

On Tuesday All Hands takes they day off. With the city volunteers still down for 1 more day it seemed like the perfect time to get that tourism that I had planned to get done done…

Suma-Kobe-Hyogo (I can’t find an appropriate song title for this one)

 
Hung over after a rather epic night at Club Giraffe in Osaka. Takeyasu picked us up in his little yellow plate and took us for a ride. We first secured ourselves some accommodation for later that night. Deposited the luggage and went on little trip.

Through the highways and byways between the two cities, we made our way to the sea. Vast, wide and salty. One forgets Japan is a tiny ass little Island because when you live in landlocked Gunma.
  

It was long overdue.

There was this bizarre fishing pier jutting into the bay. which let us get a pretty nifty view of the surroundings… Yeah. What surroundings? but it was pretty damn awesome nonetheless.

We spotted Suma beach from the pier and we decided to head over there.

“Strand has bigger waves… but the local birdage made up for it”

Suma is a Japanese anomaly. The Sand (though a little coarse) is sand colour as opposed to the dodgy black volcanic sand that seems to be standard here. It is sealed off and enclosed by piers and break waters so you can’t go too far out and get yourself in real trouble. There were no real waves. not by South African standards anyway. Hell, even Strand has bigger waves than Suma, but the local birdage made up for it.

Capped it off with sundowners before heading back into Osaka that night for one last sleep in Kansai.
It was the perfect end to a perfect holiday in the most awesome place on earth.

I love Kansai and I cannot leave Japan till I have tried to live there for a little. It has given me a goal to push for… Now I just need to decide how much longer to ride the JET gravy train before I jump off.

Yeah. Why am I going back to Gunma?

Yeah. Kansai. For the WIN!


-- Blogged in the field.

Location:１丁目,Kōbe City,Japan