When i left the Uk i asked a magazine Journalist what should i include in my blogs and he said the “the rough and the smooth” or “Warts and all” and i have had many ups and downs.

This kind of overland trip is very demanding and traveling on your own managing logistics and promoting my passion streetKids sometimes can be stressful.

Today it is very wet and the latest update on the typhoon Sinlaku is that it has claimed 12 lives and 14 missing in Taiwan, we are still unsure as to if it will swing towards us but on the edge of this low category typhoon it still is windy and wet.

I am sitting indoors it is humid and we have no air con system just a fan, i have given up showering all the time and i think i am acclimatizing to the heat “wow thank goodness for the spellchecker i would never have used acclimatizing before” I’m waiting on a delivery from which if it arrives today, and they said it would before 12 and it is now 3pm it will have taken 8 days to get here from the UK.

The photo on today’s entry shows some damage to the front bumper which is an aluminum bumper that was fitted the car in Russia, i exchanged the black metal bumper for this bumper at no cost and it has saved on maybe 25 kg in weight, yesterday after the demonstration to the Kumamoto high school my winch cable would not retract back so i wound it up by hand and stored it on top of the bumper, during the journey home the cable fell onto the road and went under the passenger tyre, i heard two loud thwacks and a hook flying up towards the windscreen and it bashed into the near side wing, i stopped the car and checked what had happened, the cord had jammed under the tyre twice pulling on the bumper tube bending it and the hook has dented the wing and pulled half of the wheel arch off too on the passenger side. It must have hit the car with a lot of force, i secured the cable more securely and drove back to Yamato cho where i am staying. So i know have to straighten the bumper repair the wheel arch fix the number plate the wing can keep the dents, and get the winch fixed, thats on top of the other electrical fault.

I don’t feel too well today and feel i should take it easy for a couple of days.