March 2022 video round up! (Patreon)

Welcome to April! As you read this we should be out celebrating our Anniversary with some pizza as we do every year. Here's what we had going on in March, brought to you by well...you and your support!

Videos from March 2022:
Our Last Day Exploring Tottori, Japan
Exploring Kobe, Japan!
More from Kobe, Japan! | Parks, Ramen and Water!

This month’s “Highlight” videos
Japan's Killing Stone | Update! It broke in half!
Crossing a Vine Bridge in Japan!
GOOGLY POOFS: Japanese Countryside Pastries the Foreigners Love ❤️
Here's a tour of Tokyo in Mario Kart 8's Tokyo Blur course 

And a bonus video not in our "usual" series
my workspace (so far) 

Moving forward we have a ton of ideas for new things, some are already in the works. Here are some of the things we are thinking about or working towards:

More frequent streaming on Twitch in addition to our normal video series. Some Twitch will be playing video games but my ultimate goal is more streaming out in the real world, it's just a bit complex (and expensive) from a technical standpoint. That said we did some in March that was fun: I did a couple of bike ride streams and Kyde and I did a hanami stream last weekend. Oh, we also surpassed 1000 followers on Twitch this month which was a fun surprise!

Maybe starting a video podcast at some point in the near-ish future. My main hangup with that at the moment is gear, to do it right I need a couple more cameras capable of limitless recording and some more nice sounding mics. Ideally we'd be discussing things going on in Japan and bringing guests on to talk about their life, work and experiences in Japan. This would be a "when we have time" thing at first but I'd like to get it working on a schedule. Don't lock this down as something that is certain to happen, but I'm thinking about it a lot.

Uploading more highlights to the highlights channel which just passed 3000 subscribers! I need to find a rhythm for these video uploads as it's not super hard but it does take some time for them.  

I have some more ideas cooking in the background as well, but things that are a little harder to execute. Something related to cars, another related to real estate and one about Japanese infrastructure. We'll see if I sort a way to get any of them off the ground haha.

Oh! I'm also considering finally getting a proper motorbike! Gotta check the pocketbook and do a real analysis of cost of ownership first, but getting kinda stoked for it tbh. It would really open up the chances for some awesome adventures we could bring you if we had two wheels to roll on!

Kyde has some major life adjustments in the canon too, but we aren't quite at a place where we can talk about them yet.

Oh, also we are getting ready for two trips in Japan to film for a couple of future video series. And there is still stuff from Hyogo on the way very soon!

Phew, I think that's everything. It's sort of overwhelming to write it all down and see what I want to do, but feels nice at the same time.

Anyways, thanks as always! Without your support here none of these ideas could even be ideas! Looking forward to getting at least some of them your way to enjoy. 

-Eric & Kyde