Drinkstrong Japan Livestream – Day 6 Taketa to Shikoku

Drinkstrong Japan Livestream – Day 6 Taketa to Shikoku

All right, I got it. What do you guys think? They need it to be hotter to grow. Like it’s not hot enough. Like it’s not hot enough. We need a greenhouse to get it a little hotter. That’s probably just so they grow [ __ ] in the winter. What are they growing in there? Okay. Okay. So, what do we decide on the boos? Uh, I don’t know. I got the live stream going. You might want to let Dude, they got they got the bells on there. Get your heat. Heat. Heat. I think part of it when I push it all the way down the rainbow, it gets like cracker. Straight. Heat. Heat. I’m in. Maybe it’s I’m in. What did you get? What did you I I’ll get I’ll get in it with you. Sori sours and this one. Orange zero sour. Well, those look like those might be okay. Yeah. Yeah. Is that a 0% food? I think it’s zero calories. I think it means it’s zero calorie, which is important. Zero guilt. It’s got 5%. Get me where you sangia. Sangia sugar. Sangaria. I don’t practice sangaria. Actually, I do practice sangria. I’m going to practice sangria today. It’s a religion. Well, I can’t let my homeboy drink alone. Yeah. Don’t let me drink alone. That’s a good idea, though. Come on. On this. I like the sangria. That will be not undrinkable. Warm. Yeah. Riverside sangria. Yeah. Okay. All right. Fine. Your wisdom has convinced me. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Morning chat. How y’all doing? Just checking in. It’s been a little while since we could live stream. We’ve been remote, you guys. Yeah. It’s It’s been a while, guys. Uh here, I’ll I’ll drop you a pin. Let you know where we’re at. Um we’re at the Lawson. I mean, that’s really all you need to know. Your location. I just want to say that I don’t like iPhones. They’re just awful. And I’m so used to using Android cuz I get it from work. It’s been nothing but a struggle for me. We are uh we are in the heart of the Shimanto Valley. Think of it. You know what? Honestly, it kind of gives me a Fernie like Elk River kind of vibe in terms of what the valley looks like. Obviously in Fernie you got higher mountains, but there is uh the same kind of just the same kind of wild vibe about it, which is which is really nice. So, we’re hoping to do sort of day today, like 50k. We’re hoping to uh swim in the rivers and whatnot. We’ve been making jokes. I’m not going to make a joke about this guy, but every time we go to a Lawson or any commisser, there’s always, and I mean always, it’s like a rule. We we call him like an NBC uh like in a video game, there’s there’s always a guy sitting there smoking in front. It’s it’s like the rule. He’s always sitting there staring at his phone and he’s always like smoking. It doesn’t matter where you go anywhere in Japan, you’re going to see the exact same thing. Guy sitting there smoking guys in on uh here’s the new seat clamp that caused all that drama. Oh, wait. I can’t get too far away from my phone or I’ll lose my Wi-Fi. I hope I didn’t lose you guys. I got to leave that. Hold on. Got to check. [Music] Did you get the same thing? I got I got it. I got it. I tried the sangria. I tried the smoro sour, but I’m also going to go with little Jack Daniels and Canada Dry, buddy. A little taste of home. Taste the home with JD Canada dry. We’re getting stocked up. Supposed to be 32 today. Not that it matters. Every day has been very warm. Um, and the humidity is 100% 100. It’s just crazy humid. Uh, it’s it means that we’re never we’re never not warm, never cold. We don’t know what we don’t know what cold feels like. Uh, bike’s been running good. We put a little bit of air in our packed tires this morning just because, you know, I was just in the to I don’t know if you went in the bathroom or not. The to in the the the toilets are so clean in the convenience store. Normally, you’d never ever ever use them. They’re spotless. They’re immaculate in here. And I noticed that the the toilet paper, you know, when you stay at a hotel and they fold over, make the little triangular thing at the end of the toilet paper. They do that here. I saw they had the options like the toilet seat cleaner option in there. You had the baby holder in there. Everything, man. It’s just It’s so nice. Convenience store where they fold over the toilet paper roll. It’s incredible. I know that some of you guys are going to be surprised by this cuz it doesn’t happen very often, but we’re waiting for Tim. This is a new thing for us. Usually Tim’s sitting there saying, “Let’s go. Let’s go. Let’s go.” But we’re waiting. We are waiting for Tim. Uh now is a good time to ask some questions while we’re waiting for Tim. Let us know in the in the comment section. We bought you boy the treat. Oh yeah. Yeah. Going to keep all the way up. Got an ice pack. Will [Music] Wow. Is it What? What? How do you What do you do? You hold Hold on. I record this. Okay. So, hold and squeeze. You just made it. Hold here. We’re going to make our p We’re going to turn our pas into beer fridges. This is a brilliant. Okay. So, walk me through this. Well, it just says hold here at the top and squeeze is what it says. Hold. Do you shake all that stuff to the bottom? No. Oh, you miss it. There’s two separate pouches. Yeah. And they squeeze and it’s going to it’s going to blow the hot pouch. Count of three. One, two, three. Oh, I felt it. I felt it. That’s That’s icy. Okay, get it. How much were these? Two bucks. Wrap them around your beers. Wow, this is really interesting. A couple might do nothing. We’re going to try some experiment. [Music] Then you just put them in your pany, wrap them around your beers, keep it nice and cool. Japan. Your Japan. Where do you come up with this [ __ ] man? I don’t [ __ ] know. [Music] It wasn’t a japany before this trip. is now, baby. Yeah, it’s Japan forever now. Yeah, you guys don’t have Japan until we go to Taipan. Taipany. Taipany. Yeah, I got I got the rye and ginger, too. Oh, you did? Yeah. Canada dry specifically. How do you not let Canada drive? I want it touching my we Yeah, the thing you got to keep cool with this thing. [Music] I wonder if that’s like the cooler. So, we got like 50k services. We need some beers cuz we’re going to swim in the river. So, we bought ice packs. Seal this up. Like that’s a cool rack. Let’s see how long it lasts. Kanye cooler. You guys missed it, but I picked up some good stuff for breakfast and for lunch. We had to We had to stock up for lunch, too. Uh, I can show you guys a few things cuz we’re sitting here waiting for Tim. I’m making a pany cooler. I got this egg roll. Tammago egg roll. It’s like sushi and egg. We’re going to try that. Pretty excited about this one. This is like a chicken karag ball. It’s like fried chicken wrapped in rice and seaweed. I got the classic tuna mayo on. They gave me two of these these teas for free. Authentic green tea. I’m going to try it. It’s warm. Everything is warm. Yeah, it tastes exactly how it looks. [Music] Morning. I bought this for breakfast, but I’m too full. Let me know. What do you think? Do you think that’ll keep in the sun? It’s good. Tuna and egg. I don’t know. Warm tuna egg sounds good. What’s our uh baseball update today? 21 Yankees. Sorry. And see, I bought this guys. Ben says he’s happy to see you guys alive. He likes the daily check. Ben. Tyler says, “Love you guys, but like Blue Jays right now.” Is it 21? It’s not 21. Oh, Daryl Sparling says, “Egg sando.” You know, Tyler, if you’re not committed to the job, we can take the wrench away. Like, that’s fine. You know, if you’re, you know, or is Jay’s priority, you got to have both. Yeah. You got to be able That’s We need I need updates. We need updates. Yeah. We could put them in a timeout, maybe. Put him in a timeout. Just Just I want him to know who has the power here. How do we do that? Oh yeah. Take it to the limit, baby. Take it to the limit, Screw. I don’t know how to put Tyler in a timeout. You’re lucky right now, Tyler. Daryl, put him in a timeout. Give him Just give him a little bit of time to think about his priorities right now. No, he’s fine. I can appreciate the uh going to watch Jay’s game right now. Yeah, sweating already. sweating before I even ride. Standard really. You guys ready? Yeah, I’m ready. But you got the route. It’s kind of being weird, but I did a little work on my brakes yesterday. They’re cooked. They’re They are cooked. But um like there’s actually no pad left. I’m just grinding one disc up against the side of my rotor. I’m not even kidding. I’m not. Sparks. You’re flying. There’s a groove on one side of my disc from where it’s been grinding up against my So winter plan. if I survive this these mountains is to uh change out my brakes. Going to go hybrid, I think, like Tim has and just hope for the best. Says he’s got some sick stopping power. He claims he can lock up his back tire. If we get enough donations, we might do it to buy me new Japanese tires. Pan. Those are the paner racers. Yeah, the gravel king. Made in Japan. No skidding. He loves those. He tried to run something else. He ended up going back. Well, I had those, but I had Schwabl. Schwabs. Schwab. But I like finer tires. Well, you’re a finer kind of guy. I am. Yeah. Tim is the You guys got to wait. We got a new series coming on YouTube. Whoa. Whoa. We got a new series coming on YouTube. It’s called Gear and Beer. Or is it beer and gear? Gear and beer with Tim. Gear and beer. GMBB with Tim. To the channel in about 2 hours. It’s going to be coming soon. Uh, like and subscribe. One take. It’s going to be one take and one take only. Why are we going to do that? Because it’s provocative. Gets people going. What do you mean by that? Nobody knows what it means. I figured out why the route was act I loaded the wrong route. Oh, I I loaded yesterday’s route. Did you put your coffee in a koozie? It just happened that way. So, now we are going 28 kilometers up the river, swimming along the way. Very few climbs. It’s pretty good. Yeah. And there’s a high likelihood we’re going to lose connection. And I’m probably going to let me ride around the parking lot, get my All right, Tim’s going to do a calibration ride. Anyway, there’s a high probability we’re going to lose connection because we are very rural and the service is spotty and shoddy and not good. We’re good. Okay, found the course. He’s kind of like a bee outside of a beehive. They have to fly around and calibrate themselves. Maybe that’s a really obscure reference, but Dana Dana would appreciate that as a beekeeper. If Nate’s watching, he’d appreciate that, too. But oh, little sore today. Not bad. No, no real injuries. Tim’s bike seat was collapsing on him yesterday during the ride. He didn’t even know it. Yeah, it was slipping. Slipping cuz he’s so fearful of overtightening it now cuz he he knows what happens when you don’t have a reliable seat clamp. There it is. The Shimanto River. Doesn’t look like much right here, but I promise you there is some stellar stellar stellar views. We’re going to be swimming in that later. Tim’s one hand in it this morning so he can drink his coffee. Nobody really understands Tim’s logic as to when he see now he went off as to when he decides to go on the sidewalk or not go on the sidewalk. Kid seems to be we don’t know going along the Shimanto gawa. Gawa is Japanese for what? Oh, anybody see that warning sign? What was it? I don’t know. Is that a stop sign? Okay. Okay, we’re going to go back. Anybody see that warning sign? Oh, okay. Well, it’s just carrying on then. Maybe it says we’re not supposed to go on the Shimanto Gawa. Or maybe it says make sure you got enough cold beer to make it the way. [Music] Oh, here. Got a big red section with something written on it. I’m just saying you probably want to know what that means. Good job, Brad. probably means this is a great place for swimming. You’re like, don’t tell the white people about this road. It’s closed. Oh, sir. 8:30 to 5 from 10th from November 1st. October 1st to the 26th. Due to the paving work of Machito Kawad line at the following places, Nazaki vehicles will be completely closed. We ask for your cooperation in return in the return traffic. Construction period October 2020, December 2020. How about bikes? Um, why is it still up 5 years later? Oh, they changed the date. 2026. That’s not till next year. July 12th. Let’s try. It’s not far down. It’s like Where are we? Right. That red thing. Picking that green thing down there. Yeah, it’s just right around the corner. We’re at Route 381. We just came over that bridge. We turned here, but we could just cross over to 322. Ah, we could and then cross back. Ah, we’re gold. Oh, yeah. It’s good to stop, though. Yeah, Brad. I like the Somebody’s paying attention. That’s why we brought them. Hey, look. Speaking of bees, I just killed a caterpillar. Look at that. There’s a beehive. Okay. I thought I was There’s two There’s two beehives up there. Tim, you better get out of here. [ __ ] gone. They look really small. It’s a very unique kind of hive. They’re very small. Neat. There’s another one up there, too. Wild. We were just talking about bees. It’s crazy. You’ll see in the video that I’m putting together for I don’t know now like two days ago, three two days ago. I was talking about how we haven’t seen any bike tourists. Not one single bike tourist. I was making a point of it on the video and right when I said that we came around the corner of this mountain and these two bike tourists were coming towards us. It was trippy. And now I was just talking about bees and then we saw a beehive. Well, we’re going to see if the roads closed here. Everybody’s got a garden. They working. Everybody here has a garden. Everybody here grows their own stuff. I don’t know. But they can grow year round here. It’s like Brad’s paradise. It’s a gardener’s paradise. Grow all the daicon you could ever need. The size of your quad. Yeah. Brad’s always checking out the He’s always checking out the farming equipment. We’ve seen a lot of farmers and we know that they’re real farmers because they’re always on the side of the combines fixing them. So, that’s how we know that they’re legitimate. Brad Brad says that’s an indication of of true farmers. Broken down equipment is going to power the course. something over there. Look at the bamboo growing out of that pipe. Look at all the fruit on this tree. Those are like I don’t know what they are. Just weighed over. Are they [ __ ] those kumquat. What is a kumquat? Let us know in the chat. I think they’re Japanese kumquats. Tim says they’re Japanese kumquats. Somebody able to verify that. Moderator, maybe. Let us know if that’s appropriate. Little eggplants on vines there. You guys are seeing how the sausage gets made behind the scenes here in Japan today. filling up rice. We saw rice ATMs yesterday. Basically, like you go with a bag and there’s a machine that just fills up your bag with rice. It’s crazy. Which makes sense. Tell how much it was in the grocery store. Oh, bags of rice. Like the smaller bag. Not a small bag, but like 5 kg. 5 kg bag of rice. 50 bone. You got to You got to get the bulk bag. This is the craft rice area. They only eat craft rice here on that on that one menu. Okay, what do we got in these green? It looks like rice, but rice. Oh, maybe. Look at this. See, they got the hopper, the rice hopper in the back of the little key truck. Yeah. Broken down. Broken down. There’s a valve that goes off. stuck. Feels a little cooler on the back side of the mountain here. Yeah, I think we’re heading We’re riding north. Yes. Right in front of me. This might have been the last part to get sun. You have a comment about my free hub sound. This random road is bad. Let us know in the chat. What do you think of Tim’s free hub sound? Is it loud enough? It’s soothing. I know Daryl loves that. Daryl loves a loud free hub. Daryl seeks out the loudest hugs available. Yeah. [Music] Shimanto River on our Yep. but not too early off the road here. Now, if this is Canada, you’d have to have a 4ft high along this. The railing height would have to be a certain height with posts specifically spaced at no greater than 16 in all the way around for in perpetuity. But in Japan, they just raw dog that [ __ ] Yeah, we don’t they don’t protect people from themselves here. Yeah. No, I wish we’d do that less in Canada. Sell beer at a grocery store. Yeah. Treat us like adults. A lot of unnecessary costs. You’re dumb enough to drive off the edge. Okay, we just did the whole thing. We’re fine. We’re fine. They got their combine. They’re going to do some work. These guys are going to do some work. Farmers like Yeah, they need beards though. Yeah. Moist moisture test. Yo, that’s so muddy. You go underneath. Oh, we should sit. This part of the route is totally designed by us. This is a drink strong design cuz we all we did in the winter was I think we were just looking at Google maps street view and we dropping pins. We found this river. Did we see it in a YouTube video? No. Uh, how did we find out? I Man, I I couldn’t tell you. We did a lot. We looked at a lot of videos, read a lot of stuff, but we knew this. We targeted this area. This area because it followed a river and it looked sick on street view. Look at these flowers just lining the roads. But then we found out it’s pretty popular, right Brad? So maybe we’re we’re just hike. No, we discovered this place. Oh yeah. Nobody knows about this place. We’re the first white people to ever set two wheels down on Shikoku and in the Shimanto Valley. We’re not telling anyone where it is. Yeah. No, this is a secret between you, me, and all four subscribers. Yeah. We don’t want this getting out. Make sure you smash that like button. Yeah, we would never do anything to tell anybody about all these great places. Yeah, I wouldn’t post my Garmin route online. I definitely would never live stream this with geo tags on. Geotags. Yep. Yep. Was he swimming? I had a seafood some seafood on the tour. Tasty shrimp. Little scallops. Big scallops. Scallops. Guys had pizza. It was mid. Pizza was mid. It looked wrong. Look at all this bamboo here. Forest. Wrong cheese. Oh, hey Dave. Oo, look at this cave. Oh, it’s good cuz that other stuff was terrible. Oh, it smells like fresh old that other Well, we they were This is what the sign was. Yeah, we should have turned back. Yeah, we should have turned back. Let’s never trust those signs. The Japanese people see that turn around. Rule followers. Yeah. Never gets old. Oh. Oh, this stuff’s terrible. This has actually Yeah. Yeah. This is the best we have. This is the best we have to offer in Canada. What’s this thing? Cemetery is it’s almost full. Oh, is that water? Ah, that’s where their ancestor down. It’s break time. This side. This side will be a little bumpier cuz This is the prefecture side, but there’s a call. Look at the holes. the river smoother but oh the score what’s the score boys what’s the score in the game let us know in the chat Uh Rick said we needed that. Needed what? Something big was happening. Oh, is Rick Rick’s on CamJ’s now? Yeah, I let him back while Rice Patty Lane wrote that one. That’s a subtle beetle reference that maybe lost on most people. Hey hotel she got us last night. It’s amazing. Oh, shout out shout out Yoko Yamada. We couldn’t even call it. It was all Japanese website, but the beds were they were foam. Beds were good. I slept so good. I don’t think I woke up once. There was this really noisy cricket outside of my window. Oh, it was the same thing. Yeah, you heard that? Yeah, it was so annoying. Did you go out there? Uh, no. But I It was It was obnoxious. Just one just going bananas. Cricket or cic. No, it wasn’t a cicada. It was a cricket or something. It was burrowed into your sleep. Yeah. Let’s check in on the chat here. Tyler C’s probably done his time out. I can’t read this [ __ ] Jay’s end the battle of Alberta tonight. Daryl says that opening night. Daryl says that a wrench can’t be put in a timeout. Oh, Jeff says Jay’s bottom of the six. Oh, hold on here. Can’t see it. It’s really hard to multitask this. End of the six. Two to one, says Jeff. One. I think that goal. I think I’m guessing Nice. We only have 28k. 28k what? We only have 28k planned. So, I’m just going slow. Yeah, I like this pace, man. We got nothing to prove. Valley. I’m just sitting up and it doesn’t even feel like I’m pedaling. Oh, look at [Music] Man coming. Uh, first one’s at 13K. Okay. We there. Have we reached the upper Shimanto yet? Well, I was using that for the two there’s two towns called Shimanto. Oh, there’s two Shimantos. Lower and upper. I was Oh, but one of them the one we were at last night is Shimanto Town and the other one’s Shimanto, I guess. I don’t know. Shanto Town and Shimanto. But in terms of the river, I’m not sure. There’s a few different branch offs. Yeah. Heat up here. I keep saying you want the hama in my head. You know you get a word you just keep repeating in your head. Yeah. Random apartment complex in the middle of the field. Oh yeah. Seems a little out of place. Is it a hotel? I don’t think so. Smells like What do we got? What is that? Do they want I wonder what they burn those piles of husks or something. Maybe once they take the grain off the Oh, look. Rice vendo. Okay, let’s stop. Two cars. I’m going to show this to the people. So, what you have here con It’s a rice vending machine. So, you put your bag underneath. Okay. 10 kg. It talks to you. 30 kg is $3. No. Really? No. No, it says 10 20 30 and besides one. Well, no, no, no. This is wrong. This guy’s No, this is Yeah, you because he’s putting stuff in on the top. See the picture? He puts stuff in and I think it like separates it or something. It separates the wheat from separates the wheat from the chaff. No, I think it cleans it for you. It’s a cleaning thing. So, you put your You put your See, you put your your raw rice in there. Put your raw rice in. Yeah. And then it gives you it cleans it for you. And look, you can do different you can do different cuts. Oh, so you want fancy or extra fancy. It’ll wash it more maybe. Or milling. So you’re paying Yeah. So the farmers bring their crops here. Wow. To process. Okay. So to process 30 kg is $3. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Wow. I wish I had some rice. It makes sense why they do that. Why they grow rice? Cuz that’s way cheaper than you grow your own rice. Grow your own rice and come here and clean it up and take it home for the winter. Three bucks. That’s sweet. 4-1 top of the seventh from Jeff. Okay, let’s go bullpen. So, they must have hit a two-run bomb cuz Rick was like, “We needed that.” I’m thinking Var show uh Yankee Stadium right field just short. You don’t have to hit it very long out there. I think they put different balls in play for the playoffs. Really seems like it’s flying off the bat. They’re like bringing the juice balls. They make their own balls, right? They own Rawlings. They own Rawlings and the Rawlings makes the balls. But there was like the juice ball era, right? They kept those in the humidor. They Yeah, they kept them. Like, one day we’re going to pull these out, nobody will know. Let’s just peel the seal on a fresh box. Juice balls. I like it. More drama. The pictures are so good. I like to see a little even it out. Pictures of that are so good, man. It’s okay. Hey, that was ball talk with Tim and Brad. Tim and Brad juice ball era. Show your balls. Show your balls. Colins’s business here. My restaurant. Show you balls. I saw that. If Major League Baseball wants to form a partnership with us, we can promote baseball while we’re over here. You know, we there’s no there’s no bar too low. We will literally sell ourselves for for chew highs more than show. Show is big. He’s definitely been selling himself out, too. I’ve seen green tea, Dunlop tires. Dunlop tires. Um, had so many endorsements. I thought he did like I saw one like a face cream or something. Yeah. Gillette shaving. Maybe shaving. Family outside everything. Oh, those are kiwis. You see those, Brad? Yeah. Kiwi. Kiwi tree. A rough road. I think we see river access. We’re going to go down. Okay. First river access we find like this. We’ll be at the hotel. I’m ready for it. Chuh. Hey. We could go to the hotel and drop our bags. Oh yeah, we could. And then go light mode and then explore it. Nice car. Every once in a while you get that really foul smell. It’s like smells like there’s a dead body in the ditch. I don’t know what it is. I’m not sure what those are. We saw a guy the other day. He was cutting his entire field by hand. I don’t know what they stacked them like that for. Huh? Tim’s starting to sweat through 79. See that? Did you guys see that? That guy, he’s just walking along and there was a big leaf on the road and he just stopped to pick it up and threw it in the ditch. They give a [ __ ] here, man. Everybody does their part. Everybody does their part. You clean the street in front of your house. You You do your part. And if everybody does their does their part, community shines. That’s what makes it work. But you get shamed into it sometimes when you don’t want to do it. Roadside stands. Guy’s drying his stuff there, too. Oh, I’m going to have a today. Yeah, that truck sold you on it. That advertising work, but they have these little skinny cans. Really good. Those are crushable. That sprite is really good. Look at all the fruit on that tree. Just looks like ornaments. Come quiet. I think they feel like a uh like a blood orange. No, they look like tomatoes. They look like tomatoes, but they’re probably they’re sweet. They’re It’s a fruit. I really want to taste one. What was that? Or was it a millipede? I don’t know. I think it was a millipede. I squished one. I felt gross. I don’t I don’t [ __ ] with millipedes. Or centipedes. Oh, yeah. Ooh. On to that submersible bridge. Well, there there’s lots of them. I’m I’m easy. Whatever. We can jump off of it. Where are we going? Straight. We’re turning. What? Oh, I just thought Is that the way to it? Our roots that way, but I just wondered if you wanted to ride out and back to that bridge. Let’s go check it out. We got time. Let’s go. Maybe AK. AK there. AK back. Four there, four there. Dude, there’s going to be other bridges along the route of those submersible bridges. I have no knowledge on if that’s cool or not. So, my understanding is they’re pretty common. I think we passed a couple yesterday. Man, there’s just those low bridges that are right above. There’s different ones that are like the pads. They’re like pads right on the river that you drive right over and there and then the when the river gets high, it just goes right over the So, there’s different styles, I guess, is what I’m saying. Not on that one. Not on that one. Been long days, long days of riding. And I think our shortest riding day, like time in the saddle, is probably 8 or 9 hours. 8 hours. Long days. Love it though. Really common in here. Like every grateful that we did as much prep and as much training as we did cuz it’s meant that we’ve all been healthy and not sore. No injuries. Yeah. Find the police. We’re trying to get an ID on these fruits. Let us know in the chat. Ask chat GPT what they are. I think if I use this camera, it’ll tell me. Pimmen tree. Pimmen. Pimmen. It’s a pimmen patch. I think that’s right. So, what is a pimmen? Is it like a pomegranate? Yeah. It’s like in that family. Are they good? Have you ever had one? Oh, I have actually like really fancy restaurants for sake. I think it’s like Yeah, you pop the seeds out of Yeah. Oh, I think you turn them into spice, too. How is that? She wasn’t particularly impressed with us. Yeah, it’s the law. You got to have a pimmon tree. Japanese kumquat in your front lawn. Looks like the valley is starting to close in a little bit more again now. It’s been pretty wide open here in the last 15k, but it’s going to get narrower, likely more scenic. That also probably means we’re going to lose connection as we take a plunge into the valley. Hopefully plunge into the river, too, very soon. We’re hot. Incredible. My brakes are quieter since I adjusted them this morning. Amazing. Amazing, Matt. Wow. Everything just changed. Oh, car. Whoa, look at that. That’s very swimmable. Oh, it is. That is so clear. Just a light blue. Wow. We got to find a place we can access the water. Someone just texted me. Hold on to your butts. If they can close the game again. I see what you’re talking about today. Oh, it’s my brother. Probably Nice. Yeah. What were those nuts they were selling? Tim’s had me laughing this whole trip, man. He’s always got the oneliners. What’s going on here now? Ginger. Ginger. They’re harvesting ginger. Got to take your shoes off before you go in the ginger field. Did you see that? Probably. They have a special. You have to take your shoes off before you go in the ginger field. You wouldn’t want to walk high shoes. Maybe it’s so they keep all the dirt where the dirt needs to be. So clean here. So clean. Hey, I don’t know if my uh family’s listening. You guys want to like accidentally on purpose miss our flights? It’s going to be hard to leave. Did you miss everybody? Yeah, I miss. This has been one hell of an adventure, man. Talking about it, dude. We got two today and tomorrow. That’s it. Wow. Wow. Where did they where did the days go? They were so good. I think it’s just hard to process. All good. Let’s go check it out and see if we can get down. [Music] No swimming holes though. Oh, guy could go swimming over there. That looks swimmable. What do you think? Walk down, have a soap. What if we roll? Or we go up to the rear over there under the bridge. Yeah, let’s go up more. This is nice. This way. This way. harder to get to. [Music] That looks very swimmable over there. I saw riding on this. He’s like, “You guys are dumb.” He’s walking his bike. Yeah, he’s a good man. He knows his family’s watching. Probably looks sketchy on the camera, but it’s quite wide. And let’s get a picture of Brad. Brado, wait a sec. What are these? Should we read these signs or just be dumb? Yeah, I probably should read them. This one with the devil face is scary. Devil face is this one’s like a fishing. I think we might be That’s who we have to deal with if we break this rule. $1,000 something. Oh, [ __ ] We better read this. $10 fine. $10. $10 fine. $10 something. 10 10 five something. I won’t throw it away. It’s human manners. Throwing away garbage is punishable by imprisonment of up to 5 years. I wouldn’t [ __ ] with that guy. He’s the garbage uh guy demon. He’s got a name, but it’s in Kanye. Okay. He’ll come He’ll haunt your dreams. Let’s go down here. We’re looking for a place to swim. Oh, not sure what this is. [Music] You think there’s a sign up there? I think it’s a park. Heat. Heat. What? What?

A bike tour around Japan, but in real time.