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Regularly updated videos you'll find in the Hairy Dog Club

Regularly updated videos you'll find in the Hairy Dog Club
Sake Soaked Videos
During regular trips to Japan, Adrian Raeside notices (and now records) some of the notable and quirky aspects of life, lore, technology, food (and of course liquor) in these High Quality Video Shorts. Sake Soaked Essays is a series of Travel experiences created with a twist of Raeside humor in peppered in.
Yamagata Beer
Adventureis just bad planning
- Roald Amundsen
In the Screening Room - a documented voyage to the Antarctic in 2007, Adrian Raeside, grandson of Sir Charles (Silas) Wright, a key member of the British Antarctic Expedition, reveals the true story of what happened on that doomed race to reach the South Pole.
Return to Antarctica
Sake Soaked Essaysthe Book

New chapters added regularly
A Collection of Essays from Japan
Sake Soaked Essays: a book of notes taken by Adrian Raeside on his journeys to Japan.

Sake-Soaked Essays
Chapter 1.
The vanishing country
The cliffs in Tottori prefecture on the Sea of Honshu are quite picturesque, but have a rather dark past. In the old days, people would come here to throw their elderly (or perhaps not so-elderly, but just tiresome) parents or grandparents off the cliffs and into the ocean once they had outlived their usefulness. Tottori was pretty isolated back then and the locals generally lived hand-to-mouth as subsistence farmers, or fishermen. A bad harvest, or scarcity of Gish meant they could face starvation. If granny or granddad were at an age where they were just consuming and not producing, frog-marching them to the cliffs reduced the number of mouths that had to be fed and also cut the number of birthday presents needed.
If this were to happen today, there would probably be a lineup of people dragging their parents, grandparents, great grandparents, great, great grandparents, great, great, great, etc… because in Japan these days, nobody seems to die.
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Japan
Sake-Soaked Essays
Chapter 1.
The vanishing country
A senior driver was pulled over by the police at a train station...
Road Trip! LunaticAdventures of Sean & Patricia
"We put JoTrailer through hell
... and I'm going to tell you all about that"
"It's all we'll ever need..."
We put JoTrailer through hell, and I'm going to tell you all about that.
After 4 years I sold Jo (sight unseen) for quite a bit more than we paid.
A woman pleaded with me to hang on to it till they could come. She paid in full and in advance.
When they came to pick it up it was like looking at our selves 5 years earlier.
And I'm not kidding you.. she said “it’s all were ever going to need!” ...
Season 1: JoTrailer

It all started over 20 years ago now.
We met by chance in a big city, and we were both piss poor. Neither of us had a car, we definitely had no stainless steel fridges and shiny black shoes.
It turns out what made 20+ years work so well is a sense of adventure that transcends all social measures of common sense.
Did I mention we were piss poor?
With our less than impressive budget, we decided we're going to need a tent. We bought the one of those fancy 2 room tents; poor did NOT mean we had to mingle with the hoi polloi that went about adventuring in single room tents.
Our first adventure was a 14 day trek through regions of the Pacific North West.
But honestly, who cares about the Pacific North West.. THIS TENT WAS BOSS :)
I remember uttering the words "this is all we'll ever need" and I'm SURE I meant it.
Some how as the budget improved, so did the level of acceptance that we "could" still be adventurers and have a... y'know... cute little 14 foot trailer. All good right?
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Moving to CanadaSeries
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