I'm in Sioux Bam.

A sandal interchange.

That's where you have this Obama Sandra interchange.

It's in Niigata Prefecture.

I've made a lot of ground since last week.

Um and yeah, I got a lot to tell you.

I got a lot to tell you.

I don't even know where to start.

Um, the last 24 hours have been a ride.

Literally.

I got picked up.

Where was I?

Where was I?

So I was in Connor's, Ella and I got dropped off at a place that I didn't want to go to.

It was hard to write, get a ride out.

And then eventually I got a person who took me to toys.

Mama, I spent one day in Toyama to the Takayama Alpine route, which I showed you live a couple of days ago.

And then yesterday morning I left.

And I guess you could see this on the only in Japan.

Go channel.

I left Toyama at the interchange and somebody picked me up and took me to back to Route eight old Route eight, which goes up towards, uh, Niigata and the reason why the highway was bad and I was on the highway was because people don't have money to take the highway.

They take the local roads.

I didn't know that at the local roads 24 hours ago.

A very, very special ride.

Stop the two of them.

Um, they stopped, pulled into the convenience store, picked me up and said if it was dogs Okay, we're dogs, Okay?

And I said sure, and they had a dog in the back of Beautiful.

Um, Labradoodle.

A Labradoodle is from Australia.

It's an allergy, allergy, free dog.

And I got in the back of the car.

We were heading straight towards this.

I had to change my signed to a local area to eat Oikawa.

And we got the toga Togo.

And they said, Hey, you wanna goto Hakuba?

Do you want to come with us to Hakuba?

You could spend the night in our base.

So we have a second house there?

I said, Sure.

Why not, huh?

Goodbyes nowhere near the route that I wanted to take it in the mountains and you got the very famous for skiing.

So I got it.

I went to their house and had two amazing adventures, both of which are on the only in Japan Go channel I broadcasted that live on the only in Japan Go channel Then this morning I flew the drone around Hakuba with beautiful white capped mountains And they drove me today with four of their dogs Thio this place um Obama San Jo and I'm now hitchhiking at the interchange.

It's on Lee about a I don't know, 25 minute drive and you got the city, which would be nice, but I want to go to Akita.

That's where to hocus Toko Toko is.

And that's where I could take a break.

And Explorer keep the little bit more detail.

But first I gotta get a ride.

So behind me, you can see the e T c e T c is like fast pass.

It's ah, um a way to use the highway with, um I don't know how they do it.

Infrared, maybe, but it charges your car automatically takes the money away and you can go onto the highway.

If I can get a ride on the highway in the truck stops, I could probably get to keep.

And that's a major major right.

Gets a four hour drive.

Any questions?

Are you totally lost, Probably totally lost.

You are.

I've been hitchhiking for the last three and 1/2 weeks, and I have about 10 days to go before I finish the trip.

I'll be in Hakata Day on the 27th.

I have a Kickstarter project where you could buy the DVD of this trip.

It's gonna be awesome.

Just the experiences that I've had up to this point, I could already see.

This is this is an epic, epic trip thes live streams.

If you don't like the live streams will stop at the end of this month on, you can go to the only in Japan go channel for live streaming.

That's the plan anyways.

And if there's a special situation, I will live stream on the only only in Japan main channel, which is what this is.

But for the most part, all of the live streaming will go to the only Japan go channel.

And if you haven't subscribed to the only in Japan, go channel.

Please do, because there's some amazing stuff that you'll see if you go on the channel now from live streaming from one of the most beautiful on sent bats that I've ever been in.

That's just in the middle of nowhere.

I am Buddhist.

A Buddhist monk just basically put a pipe in the ground, took water out naturally and made a bathtub along the river and built a little house around it.

That's that was his own sent.

It was only locals knew about that.

That's made it a really special to me.

So that's the only in Japan go channel.

And speaking of going, I got to get going because it's about four.

Jeez, what time is it?

What time is it?

4 15 So there's not much daylight here.

Here's a picture of the of the 2 to 2 really nice people who picked me up.

So So you see.

And I stayed in there.

I stayed in there, um, their second home.

We had dinner and I slept there.

They went back to the main home.

I had the basil to myself in the woods off Hakuba, which is just so awesome.

Very, very special people.

I was really sad to say goodbye.

They left me here.

This is an awesome situation for hitchhiking.

They left me here, and I I've been 24 hours with them and This is why I'm doing this trip.

Just you made a really close connection.

I felt really sad to see them go, and that's that's saying a lot because I have to say goodbye to a lot of people on this trip that picked me up and did something really kind for me.

And that adventure for the last 24 hours that we shared together really, really meant a lot to me.

And, you know, I'll be back to talk about to visit them because they're just the most one of the loveliest people that I know here in Japan, and I wouldn't have met them.

It's sort of like fate, right when you're out on the road and, uh, you don't know who's going to stop Everything has led to this point.

All the rides who took me to that spot at that time led them to stop and pick me up and spend 24 hours together and make really good friends.

It's very special people.

I wouldn't have seen Hakuba if it wasn't for her.

I guess destiny or fate and I don't know if you believe in that sort of thing.

It just seemed like the timing had worked out perfectly where they stopped.

And I happened to be at that intersection.

And I had the most amazing 24 hours.

I can't explain how cool the last 24 hours.

All right, now, here's the sign I made this yesterday.

Niigata, You got the city, which is 25 kilometers away, and I'd love to go here.

This is the dream Dream destination.

And I wrote down here home and home in means direction.

Okay, so I'm gonna broadcast for about, uh, 10 minutes or so until the battery dies, or until I get picked up.

Or until this gets extremely born.

Let's do it.

Let's do it.

Hitching out Bobby son, there's a traffic light about 100 meters away.

Cars curve.

Cars curve over to this point.

You can see the crew and then they come in.

This really is a good situation.

Train stations over there.

There's five hotels.

There's another Route eight.

That's a local road that I could take.

Okay, there's loads of restaurants, just even a toilet right there.

Perfect.

And this lane is closed.

So if somebody wants to stop and pick me up, which is the most one of the most critical things with hitchhiking.

The most critical thing with, If there's no place for the car to stop the Poland, they're not gonna be able to pick you up.

But this is perfect cause they're slowing down before they enter the highway.

And there's a place where they so I'm like this spot.

It's just I have I have daylight on against me.

There's probably about an hour of hitchhiking I could do before I have to call it quits.

I have a general rule if if headlights go on and it gets dark, I quit because it's getting hard to see and it gets a little dangerous and nobody wants to pick up a hitchhiker and night, even in Japan.

That's my sort of a rule that I have.

I don't hitchhike at night or twilight.

I could tell where they're going, our general idea by their license plate to Niigata as one toy yama and I wanna keep.

So I'm seeing blunt number plates, license plates that keep dawn and which is a good sign for me.

I have a GoPro attached to the top to film, but I'm gonna put that away if you're if you're a supporter on Patri and I'm gonna be doing a live stream tomorrow for question and answers.

I didn't get a chance to do that yesterday.

I I apologize to the Patri honors for not being able to broadcast, but tomorrow I will do one.

I will do a live stream and it will be fantastic.

The question is, where will I be doing the live stream you got that from Akita were from somewhere else.

I don't even think about that, is there?

If you're watching this and you live in Akita or Niigata, is there a place in between the two cities that you think is interesting That I should stop?

If you think so.

Leave me a comment.

Um, and I'll consider it because I want to see more as much stuff as I can.

Okay.

Gonna wait for the traffic light.

Yeah.

Here they come again.

I could see the guy.

I could see that there is.

It was a business guy, and I could see he's looking at doing a double take and he's thinking about whether or not he wants to stop.

I think he wanted to stop really with this.

It's like you really don't know who's going to stop.

People come from all different walks of life, and that makes this trip so interesting to me because I'm learning so much about so many different things.

People that work in factories, working offices, people who don't work.

A guy once picked me up who was a pachinko master.

Another guy who picked me up was a professional bicycle racer.

On this trip, there's a guy ran a marathon, disguising, Yeah, so that's That's a reason to do this type of trip.

If you ever want to know a lot about Japan, the inner workings, you have to meet the people.