Drinkstrong Japan Livestream – Day 6 Taketa to Shikoku

Drinkstrong Japan Livestream – Day 6 Taketa to Shikoku

Bye guys. Bye guys. Bye. Feeling that. Oh, we’re live. Where are we going today? I just said we got to figure out a route. Day six. Is it today? What is it? Seven. I don’t even know. I don’t know. I’ll just say shaku. Is it uzuki or Um, teada to yatawama. Yatawama. Yawatawa. Yawatama. Um, yeah. You have to look it up. It’s dragging a bit. That’s okay. You guys want to check your rack bolts after? Sure, buddy. I’ll go around. Sometimes those mountain roads and descents and [ __ ] can loosen them up. Mine are nicely rusted in place. Oh, good. They’re never coming off. Don’t [ __ ] with the rust. That was a Wow, that was that was a Japanese sneeze for sure. Yes. Oh, sorry. [Music] Break Wait, wait. [Music] Oh, this is where we’re going, Brad. Where are we? And where are we going to? I think we’re going to this seat here, aren’t we? They said that’s where the furry we want to take is. Better make sure I guess that. Who said today was short? We did cuz it was downhill. No, that’s where the ferry is, right? I’m pretty sure. Zoom in to make sure. Guess we better make sure it’s still operational. This This ferry stopped running in 2018. Yeah, exactly. It’s a long ferry. There’s two that go there. The other one must be Oita, right? Super hotel. Super hotel. We didn’t even book a room. We got We got We’re just flying right now by the seat of our pants. Yeah. So, it looks like there’s parallel routes. Yeah. Onita. and Yuzuki. Oh, does it also go there? Yeah. So, we have Oh, no. It’s like up here. Oh, no. It’s a short one. There’s two route. Hold on. Let me follow this again. Yawa Tahama. Oh. Yeah, we wanted Well, actually, so Brad, good morning. What’s going on, everybody? The other following. Good morning to the chat. It’s uh What time is it here? to Walmart. 9:54 here. We’re just just getting our [ __ ] together. So, we’re right here. It’s there. This is This is It’s uh another beautiful day, you guys. I’m going to go to Oh, I have the website. Oh, she gave it to me. Oh. Um, orange. Um, table. So, so we got two hours. Yeah. probably get this probably that go down there. So nice to get there. That’s yeah. So we got to we got to make the 3:30. Ben is happy to see you live. Shout out Shout out to Nate and Ben for their contributions. Still alive. Still alive. I take it if you’re home today, the teachers are on strike and uh children are home with nothing to do except watch their dads on live stream. Nate Nate takes over as our bigger biggest donator by the way, Nate. Thanks. Yeah, thanks Nate saki on you last night, buddy. Yo, delicious and nutritious. No, it’s a Oh, I’m going to give I’ll give you guys our location in the in the chat there so you know where we’re at. Okay, we we still have 60K. What? We thought it was a short day. It’s all downhill, fellas. That’s never true. That’s never true. But it’s trending down. It actually There we go. Yeah. I’m going to I’m just looking general. Uh but I’m going to do it in Garmin. Oh, yeah. But I think we want to take the whatever the less busy route is, right? Oh, you think? Hell yeah. But what do you I don’t know. I don’t know. So, what I’m going to do first is let them let Garmin pick it for us. All right. Because you can do that. Yeah. and then see uh let’s go to the train station because it’s near the ter it’s near the fair. So, we’re going to start. There we are. Start and then we’re going finish. Dutch people are tall. That guy’s tall. Dutch people. It’s kind of weird. That’s like the restaurant. This is [ __ ] gross, man. And the chef’s standing right there. It’s okay. He didn’t understand. Looks like that time when Stephan was like, “Yo, where’s that guy? Where’s that? There’s that freaking [ __ ] guy that looks like he’s 80 years old and he’s 20. What is that called? What’s that called when you age really quick?” Shout out Stefan Siglet. What do you guys think about the 502? Yeah, I kind of like the 502, Tim. All right, so this is what Garmin’s giving us. Um, Jen says, “Teachers are on strike and it’s 7:00 p.m. here. Love you, Pat.” A from Ben. A, that’s a good son. What’s up, Ben? Sharky, he’s upset. He needs to understand how Tim went solo. Drink strong ethoses. Ride together, die together. Yeah. But we had to make a team decision there. We ride together in parallel so we can ride together. We ride. You just need to see the video when it’s done. We were we were in constant communication. It was It was a a tale of two ships. I don’t know. I’m not a I’m not a a tale of two ships sailing in the night. You like the 502s. In the same direction we were going in the same direction. We’re just a different path. We had the same goal. Yeah. And we made it. Nobody got left behind. Okay. We need to stop at a convenience store before we make a mile here. Okay. We got 54K. According to Colin, it’s all downhill, which whenever I’ve said that, I’ve been faced with huge climbs. It’s not all downhill. But I’m only doing the downhill sections. Oh, can we get a rope? I am climbed out. Yesterday, uh Brad and I climbed and climbed and climbed and when we couldn’t climb anymore, we just started climbing. Okay. And when you thought you hadn’t climbed enough, you climbed more. We climbed more and more and more. We climbed for 4 hours straight. Like 9 10% grades. It was like this. I got some good news. Okay. Okay. What’s the good news? All right. The the route. Mhm. 54 km. This is I want to show the the chat the profile. Hold on. It’s probably not going to show up. No, this is what the handkerchief’s for in case you’re wondering. Cleaner your phone. This is a good profile. [Music] Oh no, Brad. No peeking. I needed to be surprised. I don’t know. You don’t think you can see it? But see, it is down. But look, you go down. Oh, up. So, there’s a couple climbs at the beginning and then down, climb down. But we go from um 300 m to sea level. So, we lose 300 m. Yeah, we uh ascend 300 and descend 5600. Yeah, you definitely can’t see that. No, no, just know just know that it’s good. I’m going to send this to Daryl. Daryl, I want to follow I’m going to text to Daryl. Daryl, you are riding with us today, bud. I’m sending this to all the moderators. are rude. Shout out to the moderators. Progeria Tyler says [Laughter] proeria. Oh, it was it was Oh, when someone gets Oh, yeah. Yeah. It was a compelling bunch of pics and vids. Mustwatch stuff. Oh, Jeff Woods entered the chat. Oh, what’s up, Dad? Town, man. Says that townhill. Oh, Jen says you could see it. So there you go. There you go. Dad’s not on Instagram, so he hadn’t seen what happened yesterday. So I’ll have to fill him in. Yeah. A little bit of drama. Everybody’s fine. Okay. Should we make a mile? Show this. Uh the convenience store to get some uh Well, we’ll pass one, I’m sure. You think? No. I don’t know what the route is. Are we going that way? 50. We got to show them this town, though. Yeah. So, you guys know I have fallen in love with this town. Um it’s it’s going to be a problem. I really like I really like this town. I uh It’s got a It’s got a real vibe to it. You want to show them the business you’re going to buy? Yeah. All right. I’ll show you guys. I’ll show you guys the business. He has brakes still squeaking. There you go. Big surprise there. So when I move here, those when I move here, I’m going to buy this one here. Show you. But on the right hand side after the ya, I’m going to put balls there. Show you. Show you. Show you balls. I don’t know why that’s funny, but it’s just it’s funny things that come to your brain sometimes when you’re on the road. I guess shout out to Teada Q Hostel. The idea of a hostel sounds like a scary thing, but I’ll tell you what, in Japan and this place in particular, incredible. Hey, there’s our room. There’s our room. The one on the right we stayed in. Tim and I Tim and I were bunkies yesterday. Brad got Brad got a solo. Oh, we’re showing we’re showing the group our uh our our YouTube stream. We’re showing them where we stayed and we’re This is our hostess last night. She looked after us. Her and her husband owned this beautiful, beautiful hostel. Good breakfast. Good breakfast. A good ser. Good. We did a We did a whiskey tasting and uh shou and what was the drink you made? The cocktail. Kabosu. Kabosu. Kabosu. Yeah. It’s kind of like a lime whiskey. Is it whiskey? Whiskey. Whiskey and kabosu. Right. Kabosu. And h Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Is it kabucha? No, it’s like a lime kind of. Yeah. It’s a local favorite. Kabuch. Okay. Kabosu. Anyway, this is an old 90 years old this hotel. Yes. Uh this uh house. Yeah. Not always. So you said it was a cosmetics uh yes store 90 years ago and then converted. What was it before you bought it? Ah so uh it’s uh just empty for 10 years. So nobody uh living here. And what was it? No no no business. What was it like in there after 10 years? Was there a lot of damage? Um, so this roof and the wall is uh the owner the older deformed and the one so not the important damage. Nothing serious. It’s in very good shape. It’s be it’s such a beautiful property. I need to actually go. Can I go fill up my water? It’s okay. Okay. Okay. We already left and checked out and we’ve been outside for the last hour getting ready. They’re probably sick of us. They want us to leave. But you can’t get rid of us that easily. Okay. Okay. Hey, Brad. I kind of got my hands full here. Can you put my bike aside? Whoa. We’re going to be leaving here soon, guys. Is he annoyed at us? I think maybe. I think he is cuz we said we’re going to stay. Yeah. Well, Colin moved up his boat on his own. Yeah. So, he was he was riding a high last. He was. Yeah, that’s true. He’s ready to move here. Good. Back on the bike. I’m going to go take a picture of this waterfall. Okay. Okay, engine’s on the road. Okay. Okay. Okay. Byebye. See you. There’s our other guy. Yosh. Okay. So, this we still are we still live? This little hill here, this this rock. This is really interesting. There’s a bunch of these big rocks that are jutting out here. And the crazy thing about these rocks is that uh they’re actually they’re not mountains, they’re rocks. And what I mean by that is they were actually launched there when the Mount Aso volcano when the Asso volcano exploded 90 what did they say 90 90,000 years ago. This is actually a rock that was shot here. It flew here and then landed and now it lives here. And there’s a few of them around here. They’re just debris from exploding volcano. That’s That’s bananas. That is absolutely bananas. Uh this town this town is magic. Oh, look at the look at the waterfalls here, you guys. Look at this. Wow. Take it off for the group. This town has got it all. It’s just quiet. They said a thousand people live in this town. Yeah, but I think you got a thousand in this this city. Old ruins area. There’s the train station where we picked up Tim last night after his adventure. And the onen that I went to was just down there. Great onen. If you’re coming to Japan, you got to you if you have the ability, come to come to Tea. I I I can’t stress that enough. This is the best town I’ve been to in Japan. And there’s three towns that sound like it, too. Oh, yeah. Not Teada. Teta or Takata. Look at that. The sign there, it shows the temperature. It’s already 29°. 6 is minus. Yeah. 10 uh 10:00 in the morning. 29°. All right. Ready? Ready? Yeah. All right. Let’s go. That mountain is lit up in the evening with the waterfall. It’s just so scenic, so picturesque. Naked lady there. Statue. [Music] [Music] That’s the onen down there that I went to. What sign though we should hear about? Japanese hot. Oh yeah, Japanese hot. Good point, Brad. Look at that temple’s cut into the mountain on the side. You see that, Brad? Into the rock. It looks like there’s a house there, too. Right on the side of Wow. Yeah. So, we went for supper. It was It was And I both agree. It was the first bad meal we’ve had in Japan. It wasn’t just bad. parts of it were actually inedible. It was a chunku chunk nab like hot pot, but it had this this meat. We don’t know what it was. Um, I actually could not actually chew it. I don’t just mean like it was kind of gristly or whatever. I mean I physically couldn’t break it up with my teeth. I spit out and I tried got out of I was being rude. You’re like this [ __ ] gross. Oh, come on. And the chef is beside you. Come on. I like to start the morning off with a big climb. Bring back the memories from yesterday. Yeah, my legs, they’re not feeling any better. Nope. Could have used a day of recovery, but we got to push on. We’re time is a factor today. Yeah, we got to be there by 3:30. We only really have what, 3 days of riding. Oh, tunnel. So, there’s a real possibility we might lose cell signal here. I guess we’ll find out. If we lose you, we’ll try and pick you up in a little bit. Lost garment. You lost your garment already? Oh, the satellite. Oh, the street. Which way are we going? Looks like we lost it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. All right. We’re back up. Lost in the tunnel. Let’s cross here, guys. You guys ready? All right. Don’t worry, they’re not honking at us. [Music] There’s the loss. Anyway, the uh meal last night, the rest of it was really good. It was just this hot pot we had. It was It had good flavor. The meat was terrible. And all there was was cabbage and some onion and some other stuff, but it just wasn’t good. So, we ended up ordering I ordered something else and it was it was good. Let’s check in on the chat. See what they got to say here. Did you look at that live stream? Is it fisheye lens right now, guys? Uh, I don’t think so. Did you look at that? It looks pretty normal to me. Does it? Yeah. I haven’t watched any screen. Haven’t been able to check in on the chat just yet. So, we try to try to let the big trucks go before we cut off the rest of traffic. Another little mountain stream there. slept like a baby last night. I usually I I don’t remember a time in my life where I’ve ever had such an easy time falling asleep. I last night was talking about something when we got into bed and then we just walked out when I sounded like we got into bed together. That’s definitely not the case. Uh, but it was just great sleep, good bed, love it. Those kind of things make a difference. Although Brad and I both agree, we’re feeling pretty tired after that climb. It was easily the most physically demanding thing I think I’ve done in my life. Feeling gassed today. Oh, another tunnel. There’s a chance could lose the stream again. So, I’ll check back in a bit if we do go faster than the cell signal.

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