Last night

Well I normally wouldn't post a blog about my nightlife, but last night was the exception. Being that I live in a smaller area the last train that leaves from Yokohama station (where I like to go out) leaves at 11:56pm, which is pretty frickin' early really. So anyways last night I met up with a friend at Yokohama about 9:30 ish and headed to a local bar/restaurant. We ran into this Japanese guy he met the previous weekend so he kinda joined our party, then having 3 people that allowed us to get a decent sized table. For reference going to bar in the middle of Yokohama on a weekend is insane, as you can probably imagine. Luckily the host dude that seats everyone is cool with us so he helps us get seated. Anyways I am going to skip the whole female part for this story, so fast forward about 2 hours. I have now missed my train to my station because of this girl....great.. I had the option of just going to my friends place, but this is where my new mindset comes into place. Since living in Japan I have decided to live my life more adventurously. I do any and everything I can now, despite whether I really want to or not. It has gotten me to meet many new and interesting people, and I am slowly racking up stories. Well last night was one of those instances. I decided I was going to just go to the nearest station to where I lived. Keep in mind I am slightly inebriated, perhaps my judgement was skewed of how far I was going to be from home. So anyways I get to Zushi, which is the last stop for the train, and is all the close I am getting. Buses and Trains have now stopped, and getting a taxi from Zushi to my house is out of the question. So my options were:

1. Go to sleep on a random bench/wall/park ect. Many Japanese people do this after a night out and being that Japan is one of the safest countries in the world I really didn't have a problem doing this.

2. Be adventurous and just start walking in the direction in which I thought was toward home.

I chose number 2. I was coming down from my drunken state and decided I could use the exercise. After running into the combini and getting a doughnut lol. So I looked at a map at the train station and headed out. After about 30 minutes I was getting hot and tired. I had yet to see any signs. An hour later I began pondering my decision and thought about going to sleep on the bus stop bench, but for fear that the next morning I would have no idea where I was I just kept going. I saw a sign, 8km to Yokosuka. So there was hope lol. I kept going and by hour number 2 I was beat. I was hot, I was tired, and a headache was setting in. After probably a hundred taxis had gone by I was really considering taking one, but just did not want to spend the money. I had to use the bathroom bad, so I went into the next combini. 2 super hot girls stared me down as I passed to the bathroom, thus boosting my energy and making my night better lol. I now I had the boost I needed to keep going. 2 1/2 hours later I felt like I was getting closer lol. After walking through about 6 tunnels, up and down big hills, and contemplating my decision to be adventurous, I finally saw the Yokosuka station, 3 hours had now passed. I got to Zushi at 12:30, it was now 3:30am. There were no taxis at the station :( It was still saturday night though and the clubs were open in Yokosuka, so I knew there were going to be taxis that direction. I proceeded to keep walking and as I reached the outskirts of the Yokosuka nightlife, taxis were lined up at Shioiri station. Now knowing how much further I had to walk, and thinking that a taxi wouldn't be too outrageous, I finally gave in. It would have taken me another good hour to hour and a half to get home, by that time I could have just slept at the station and waited for the 5am train and caught that and been home at almost the same time. Which I thought about doing in Yokohama, just going back out alone and going to a club or something, but I that point I was really drunk and did not feel like doing anything but sleeping.

Ok so I finally get in the taxi, it ended up costing like 1300¥, yea about 13$, so if I would have taken the taxi from Zushi it would have been at least $50, bump that ish.. So I get home at approximately 4am and am almost too tired to even sleep. I did fall asleep though only to wake up to a goodmorning text at like 10am! Frick that.. So I slept until about 2pm, it is now about 4pm.. so I have been up for 2 hours lol.

Needless to say last night was an adventure. I will never do it again, nor will I miss my train again. If I do, I will be sure to go to a friends, or sleep in a park lol. I don't regret it though, it was an experience that I wont ever forget. Needless to say, I was pretty skinny in the mirror this morning lol, that was nice.

Oh and for the record, I traced my path on google maps this morning/afternoon, and I walked approximately 5.6 miles lol