This was the easy one. The rules for the Golden Week Charity Hitchhiking tournament stated you could start at any point in your own ken, and so Mike and I began our adventure in that most typical of Japanese ways; naked and surrounded by strangers. At 1pm, clothed and refreshed, I was standing in the sun with a smile and a sign, and after 20minutes had hitched my first ever hike, as Teshima-san from Fukuoka pulled over with his Phillipino "girlfriend", and I was headed to my next destination...
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| - This was the easy one. The rules for the Golden Week Charity Hitchhiking tournament stated you could start at any point in your own ken, and so Mike and I began our adventure in that most typical of Japanese ways; naked and surrounded by strangers. We located the onsen nearest the expressway, and discovered an interesting fact about the Japanese psyche; communal nudity is fully acceptable, as long as you don’t ask someone to take your photograph. If it wasn’t for the automatic timer on my digicamera, we would never have got the bonus points we were sure to receive for the “Funniest Photo” section of the challenge; the two intrepid adventurers at an onsen in nothing but the 100¥ luminous yellow aprons and curly wigs they had decided to wear throughout the challenge, just to make their week-long tour of Kyushu even more difficult. At 1pm, clothed and refreshed, I was standing in the sun with a smile and a sign, and after 20minutes had hitched my first ever hike, as Teshima-san from Fukuoka pulled over with his Phillipino "girlfriend", and I was headed to my next destination...
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