good morning guys today has the makings
of being a pretty difficult day I
haven't done over a hundred kilometers
in quite some time
and my plan today 135
that's not flat roads I have some big
Hills not like Mountain it's definitely
hilly ride today it is almost 9 o'clock
I should have be on the road sooner but
I had a nice breakfast so it means I
don't really have to stop for a while
and my intention they should just Jo
this thing
restrict as much stops as possible not a
lot of drone flights because if I can do
135 today tomorrow it'll be a short
little jog and I will be in Kagoshima
and I could probably get there in time
to check out ferry schedules and check
out places to stay and just kind of get
situated anyways we are leaving on the
road Jo notice I got my pirate hat back
hello
these girls were cheering from their car
they were yelling hello what's your name
what's your name Leeds Matt nice to meet
you video video youtuber YouTube yeah
you too
they were chasing me over the course of
I don't know 10 kilometers almost I saw
him a while back they passed by they
were hanging out the window waving they
must have stopped somewhere because they
passed me by again hanging out the
window waving and I saw him way far
ahead pull off onto a 7-eleven so I was
like well those are some diehard fans if
they only knew about me so I pulled out
a card and I gave it to him in the
7-eleven parking lot other relays are so
tiny they were so excited they came out
and passed me by a third time and wanted
a picture and I was much obliged for
that I've been trying to work more
Instagram pictures into my trip because
they translate to my relive video at the
end of this and look at look at those
trees I told myself I was gonna stop
today but you got to stop when there
when you got color like that it is
beautiful
alright guys we are 67 a little bit over
the halfway point of today's ride it's
already one o'clock so that means that
at that at that I have another four and
a half hours ahead of it the hard part
of today's ride is the second half so
we've got out we got a pretty big hill
afterwards we got a little bit of a
decline but it doesn't even go all the
way back down gonna be yeah gonna be a
good one my legs feel good though
that's so funny yeah I finished days at
this distance but today we are just
getting started
part of the reason that my pace is so
good we're still looking at 16.1 km/h is
that I'm not doing a lot of video inge
nothing really just what you've seen and
that's what I'm going to keep doing I
just thought I'd chime in and say hello
hello back again here to talk about the
generosity of the Japanese driver this
has been a two-lane road for the better
part of almost a kilometer long long way
and
I I didn't understand why but they were
only occupying one lane for so long they
were occupying one lane like way way
back there and I just realized why
because this construction zone here
narrows it down to one lane
okay this isn't an Asian thing this is a
most places I've lived thing America
being one in China being the other there
is no way that there would not be a
bottleneck at the at the reduction point
of this construction zone but but lo and
behold
everybody right away got in line can I
go in thank you and everybody fell into
line we wait back there way back there
no frustrated yuppie or just angry jerk
you know trying to weasel his way all
the way up to the front
it happened so much I I was so confused
why is nobody using that other Lane I
was riding in it you know and there must
have been some like construction sign I
had sign please move over I mean these
people moved over a long long long ago
all right it's like what would happen if
everybody followed the rules this
and now everybody's just patiently
riding through moving around this
construction area biding their time
taking their time if everybody works
together we'll all get through this
quicker than if one asshole decides to
jam himself up into the into the point
where it narrows down but there was
literally no one pushing in not one car
for like a kilometer I'm sorry I'm this
it's I've cycled through all of Japan
and this might be one of the more
memorable moments of my trip this unity
of driving jo japanese jo you guys
that's pretty cool
very cool people two things one I just I
just took a break it was just like a
half hour but I stuffed my face with
McDonald's it was a tragedy chicken
sandwich
Big Mac large fry these brand new little
potato cheesy things which turned out to
be awful a large fry and a coke
it was good though it was good it's 2
o'clock I've got 60 kilometers to go
feeling full don't eat another stop I
don't think maybe to go to the bathroom
but maybe I can just burn so many
calories my body just chews through
hello so many waves from people really
nice but I've been thinking about time I
was in McDonald's I was thinking about
something I received a comment on one of
my older videos who's really bad guy
attacked me Annie
Eva and just racist racist I normally
don't respond to negative comments but
this one was just yeah so I kind of came
back at him and said you win the meanest
comments of the Year award
congratulations for being so ignorant
and the good thing about it is the world
probably hates you yeah sort of
something like that and I kind of felt
good of myself he replied to that
comment and said you know that most
people he knows really respects him and
he's a really highly regarded person in
his town hello
anyways it got me thinking about bigotry
and hate racism because I was originally
thinking wow it must be it must be
shitty to be so mean and so vile and
such an angry person
and then I started thinking yeah he made
that comment back you know I'm um decent
in my city on my town and I started
thinking about you could be the most
despicable person in the world and if
you surround yourself with people who
support you in that way you can live out
your life in unchallenged ignorance and
in a lot of ways happiness you could be
a bully live out your life happy you
could be a total racist bigot and live
your life happy you might not be able to
surround yourself with
people like me but that doesn't mean
that you're gonna grow up miserable and
here I'm thinking I've branded this guy
you know
a filthy individual and he's probably
living a horrible life and you know no
he's probably not he's probably happy
found a wife that's just just racist and
bigoted as he is life of blissful
ignorance into his own views I don't
know it just made me gain a little
perspective when I really thought about
who this guy was if you really even did
exist maybe he's a troll well that lady
just wait for me out of her window I got
so much good vibes from this that that
comment isn't riling me up too much but
it did make me think about a perspective
on hatred and anger and the fact that
these people can live in the world
completely completely unabashed
unchallenged you know and they can make
remarks to people they deem lower and
what are you gonna do their life is
still going on your life is still going
on and we just try to live our lives as
best as we can and don't hurt people
along the way honestly he can believe
whatever the hell he wants to believe
the problem is that he insulted me and
kind of made me angry but I don't know
you feel me I'm Way over here cycling
around the world hello
and he's over there living his life
that's it
tomorrow tomorrow
Kagoshima tomorrow
it's only a day away Shou Shou if you
know who I'm talking about Dada and Shou
Shou Shou Shou is in a performance of an
e yesterday so I got to watch her now I
have tomorrow stuck in my head but
tomorrow we do arrive to go go Shima and
that's a pretty damn big deal
that's the bottom of Japan other than
Okinawa which is an island outside of
this whole larger landmass I'm not
really including it yet I'm saying that
tomorrow I reach Kagoshima and from wok
and I took a go Shima that's pretty
awesome I have parked my trike I am at
the Appa
miyazaki mia cowan Oh Joel yeah Mia
kanojo that's where I am location they
made me pay for bicycle parking I I'm
literally just putting my bike out in
front of their place and they're like I
have to pay for parking
I said sugar my phone I says this is all
the places I've been not one time did I
ever have to pay for bike parking in any
of those places anyways
either way it's not a big deal this
place is a little bit seedy which might
be good for food because it's got like a
little bar street but not good for
leaving the bike unlocked so I'm going
to lock it up get to the hotel and again
I'm gonna I'm gonna close this blog out
right now because tomorrow is it just
another long ride and today I did 135
kilometers so I'll leave you with the
relay video Jo I'll talk to you later
wow they just told me that the bike
charge is no charge it's okay no no it's
okay I just I travel many many places
never never have bike charge
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