OH Should Make a Journal about Living Abroad
 

Cause I'm bored and like travel ****. Tell me all about living in Japan and ****.

I'll tell you anything you want to know about north-eastern Wyoming

Shut up, bitch. I say that with love.

<3

It’s a daunting task.

It might be something to distract you in these times. I don't know how those things work for you. In any case I would like to read it

To be fair this was my idea. I'm narcissistic enough to want credit for it.

You get all the credit either way bro.

Don't remember this at all so I still claim credit.

I think in the Japan thread I told him he should make a journal about all the stories he has about being in Japan.

You get all the credit either way bro

That’s why you’re getting the credit son

ALL OF IT

Lol

I sense capitalist manipulation.

*sharpens hammer*

I was there for a month or so and I mainly got super drunk, super lost, and freaked out people trying to speak English. I found the best record stores in Tokyo if you want to know about that. Oh, 7-11 is really nice there, and it's what I ate a lot when I wanted to eat cheap and on the go.

@OH
Out of curiosity have you read James Clavell's Shogun?

Yes.

Thoughts? It's one of my fav pieces of escapist, soap opera literature.

Yeah man. It's a blast.

Do you remember when the guy committed seppuku because the gaijin hung chicken corpses up in a garden he was responsible for?

OMG I do. Like everyone was horrified by the smell but the white guy was just happy to have stinky chicken and no one wanted to say anything so someone just killed themselves. I love the ludicrous high stakes in all interactions with the Japanese. Either everyone becomes best friends or someone dies horribly. No middle ground cause savages.

Hey OH what are your feelings on squat toilets?

They’re far more sanitary and better for getting your anus comfortably wide.

So you happily used them back in the day?

Yes. I wiped with my left hand too.

I tend to wipe with toilet paper.

It’s no big deal as long as you wash your hands.

Only in the shower. I'm not trying to be Bear Grylls.

Well there are billions of people without western toilets who live far better lives than we do.

And yet they **** worse.

People without access to running water definitely do. They have it worse than us. When I was in India I frequently saw several people all dropping deuces right on the side of the road. Near the Ganges there was an area about the size of three football fields with nothing but dirt and people s hitting.

It's very sad that with all technologies we have today people still have to live this way.

Would love to read your journal! I love traveling as well, but unfortunately don't have much time for it lately.
Now planning my 2 weeks vacation on the seaside somewhere and was just reading TravelUP reviews.
Anyone traveled with them in the past? How was your experience?