Japan Day 3

Boy! Do I have a story for today!

So I woke up at 1:30 AM from nap that start at 2:30pm the day before. I must have been exhausted. My plan was to go to Hiroshima to check out the 2 UpGarages that are there. I found out that UpGarage doesn’t open until 11Am. I tried to fall back asleep but couldn’t. I updated my build thread on Zilvia, FaceTime my parents, and tried to organize my photos. I went to get breakfast and after all that it was only about 6:30 AM.

I walked around and tried to waste more time but it got to the point where I was ready to head out. About 9AM, I grabbed the Forester so that I could get gas. Well the old man that was the service attendant put diesel in. I started the car and it died. Great! I felt bad because I should of known more Japanese so these things wouldnt happen.

We pushed the car back away from the pump and I started to look for a drain plug. Well there wasnt one. So I went ahead with removing the fuel pump so that I could access the gas tank to remove the diesel. When I removed the lines, one of the O rings broke. COOL! At this point, I contacted Richard and Beau to see if they could get someone to take me to get a new O ring. Another military guy, Mike, had O rings and was able to swing by to help me out. Got the new O ring on and everything was ok. Got gas and headed out. Mike’s wife was going to Hiroshima and she invited me to follow her so I wouldn’t get lost.

I decided I would get lunch and walk around another part of Iwakuni to take pictures. I got McDonald’s for lunch. Still tastes like McDonalds. Not much better than the US. Walked around for 2 hours but I was ready to go. So I went to Hiroshima.

Got to Hiroshima, went to both UpGarages, YellowHat, and Autobach. Drove around the city, I defiantly need to go back for a whole day to walk around. It’s much bigger than Iwakuni. Got home after about 5 hours.