For hours and kilometers and miles of this ride. I made up this little rap for my bicycle it was like my my version of Dory singing Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming and Finding Nemo movie so yeah. In approximately 2006 per my memory. After I finished my second voyage around the world with peace boat. I was out of money. I had 20,000 yen to my name. And I had a plan to go to Kyoto in order to do the 10 day Vipassana sit that was scheduled for like two weeks later or something. And I was like, Alright, I need to be there in two weeks. I've got 20,000 yen. So if I if I go there now I have to run out of money on the pay for the train. not have enough money to stay anywhere. Okay, if I so I was like, you know, just stuck for how to deal with this situation. And then I was like, I have an idea. I'll ride my bicycle to Kyoto, and sleep, you know, on the high along the highway on side of the road on the way there. And I had just been on peace boat as I said. So a couple of people during the voyage were like yeah, come on. Over, you know, whenever you like. And so during the this very poorly planned trip. I did stay with a couple of friends along the way. Koji is a man who has I may still be alive. I don't know. This was what 12 years ago. More than 12 He and his wife had like a woofing farm willing workers on organic farms. Set up down in me a spelled mi E and he was like yeah, come on over so i did i i got I'm skipping so much the story but I here's the important parts. Forget about all the bicycle stuff. I had this plan to ride my bicycle. And this is going to be the point of this chapter. I had this plan to ride my bicycle to Kyoto. And there was nothing stopping me so to speak. I didn't have a job. I had just gotten I just finished the peace boat voyage for like 100 day voyage back in Tokyo and had this plan and I was like kind of working out in my mind. You know what, you know how I could possibly do this bike trip. And I discovered I was like, essentially looking for permission to go. And it's it comes back to the like this thing of like wanting to be good. I think that if if someone says that, oh yeah, it's okay for you to do it. Then or I want you to do you know something? Okay, perfect. I'll do it. If you say I should do it, then I'll do it. But in this case, I didn't have that. And it would, it would have taken too long to like, set up some fake. Like, it was a situation of like, okay, guys, it's going to be I'm going to leave on this day. On Thursday. Come on out and wish me well. You know, not that that would be fake but that would take two weeks of Tokyo time because everyone's busy and all of that and to schedule something in like that. And the entire trip, I only had two weeks. So that was that didn't even cross my mind that I could like make an official thing and get some buy in from people who would care which I did do it for my walk but not for this bicycle trip. And I because it was so curious. I was like, Huh, I'm waiting for permission and it's like, dot dot dot, from whom? Who is it should be free from him. Yeah, from her from whom? From whom? Who was going to give me permission. When I was literally free. I just could I could just go and I was like, Huh. And so I just went very unceremoniously. I packed I had, I had already bought the bicycle T I had already bought TJ bike. I had purchased it with like saddlebag racks on the front and back, plus the saddle bags. And I just worked out a way to like, put my back. What was it I had a couple bags in the back. Basically it was quite overloaded with all the junk I had. But I was like, huh, I can just go and I just went this at this time I was not living anywhere really where was my bicycle at that time. But I keep thinking that I was in the place when Bo zaru which is the name of a place down near Socrata Shane mochi name of a building. I was staying with Jesse. But the main part of this the anyway, I'll get to that in a second. So I saw I just left I was like, okay, I can just go and I jumped on my bike. I know I do know that. 90% Sure. I had ridden my bike or had my bicycle at the Peace boat office up in Takadanobaba. And I remember one of the other teachers named Carl was like he was flabbergasted Are you serious? You've really fucking just gonna go without planning and anything. I was like, Yeah, I might as well you know. And I had, as I said, 20,000 yen to my to my name and I had no map. So I needed to go to a book shop and I bought a map that was like the motorcycle touring guide of Japan. And as I speak this I'm turning around in my seat to grab this book. Mapple three and it has a ratio. One to 140,000 is the size on this thing and it shows a motorcycle on the front. publish date and obviously on the binding or anything but it was 1600 yen, apparently. And I I remember spending 4000 yen.