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Regularly updated videos you'll find in the Hairy Dog Club
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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
Recounting stories Adrian Raeside fashion. Fully illustrated, quality Video Jokes. We'd post an example but they're, ahem - a little risqué. This is a great place to drop some outtakes :)
The Latest Outtakes
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...
LunaticRoadTrips!
UTTERLY Canadian Coast-To-Coast Adventures
... and I'm going to tell you all about it"
Full Canada Day Article
"We found out it was Canada Day because we wanted a couple burgers"
...We always know we're approaching a little Canadian town because those potholes and bumps become endearingly standard stuff.
Road Trip! Chapter One
Season 1: JoTrailer
It all started over 20 years ago now.
We met by chance in a big city, and we were both just starting out. 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 just starting out?
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; starting out 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?
JoTrailer followed us into the most awkward of natures spaces. We thought Jo was the cutest thing ever, but campgrounds would have no part of it. JoTrailer was old and ugly to them. So we found other spectacular places to be.
And .. even though it had no toilet.. THAT Trailer was "truly all we would ever need." (:
Need I go on? Or should I get right to the part where we dump Randy the 18 foot trailer for Hiram.. the brand new 26 footer, "truly ALL we will ever need." (-:
Turns out the adventure is us, not the mode in which we seek it.
No matter what we hauled, pulled, pushed or dragged.. the adventure was always about the thrill in a complete lack of planning (and figuring out what to do when even the lack of planning blows the fuck up).
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 we’re ever going to need!”
We have fun, bizarre, crazy adventures tied to JoTrailer before RandyTrailer and HiramLodge came along.
Stick around and I'll tell you about them.
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CanadaHandbook
A Guide to all things Canadian
A Cartoon series AND Interactive Book inspired by the quirks and differences people moving to Canada may notice.
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
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