Archive for October, 2008
KUK Warehouse Yokohama
Last night was the last night i spent in my roof tent in Japan, i had parked in the docks area not far from the company that i am using to load my vehicle into the shipping container. I have handed my car over to a Bonded warehouse and I'm not aloud to sleep in it now as the car park is a restricted area, tomorrow i will remove the roof tent and [...]
Robert Jones and 4×4 Magazine interview
At about 7.30 am this morning the phone rang and the editor of the Japanese 4x4 magazine confirmed they wanted to do an interview before i left and would be sending a photographer and a writer down to me from Tokyo for 11 am, so i shot out of bed like a rocket to get the vehicle looking sparkling. The interview went well and they got some good [...]
Yokohama Docks, People change
I’m sat in the United Seamen’s Service building which is to assist traveling American's who work aboard ships that visit various ports around the world, this one being in the Port of Yokohama, its run by a 57 year old american called Jack, i was pointed in the direction of this place from the security guard at the company for which i am [...]
Leaving Nagoya
Odometer: 261562 Long day today, woke up in my car park camping spot in central Nagoya and cycled to the Toyota memorial museum which is really good and gives a great insight into this incredible family that started Toyota, it was founded in Nagoya by manufacturing weaving machines and that moved into cars and now is the largest car manufacturer [...]
Robert Sanzalone
Today in Nagoya i met up with Robert Sanzalone, Robert is a friend of a guy i met down in Kyushu, “Hideki” who is a friend of Edwin the Dutch lad i was staying with so it shows how networking is so interesting when you are traveling as you can bounce freely from place to place and person to person as life intended without the ties. Robert [...]
Wayne Sharp
I’ve just had one of those moments when you have typed up half of a story gone for a cup of tea then come back to the computer and it had decided to freeze and not let me type then it shut my program down and i have just lost what i had written as i didn’t save it before i made a cup of tea, so here we go again. I arrived in Nirasaki on [...]
Kyushu
I’m writing this blog entry from the banks of the river Kumagowa which is just outside Hitoyoshi on the island of Kyushu Japan, we have just caught three fish and have grilled them lovely, we are here to go rafting tomorrow, we are told that this is the best rafting area in Japan and with all the rain from the last Typhoon it should be [...]