17th DAY: Toyama Airport

The day started differently than what we've had recently. The sun was out, and it was hot. We didn't get to the Toyama airport until about 2. We wanted to do some filming to make a small skit for the contest. We needed a shot of a plane taking off. We didn't know which way the airplanes depart so we waited for an airplane at one end. 30 minutes later, nothing came or left so we decided to go in and check the schedule. Nothing was arriving for another 1.5 hours. Luckily, they had wireless. During that time we unfortunately found out that there aren't any direct flight from Taipei to Toyama like we were hoping. This meant that we had to adjust our plans of flying Taiwanese into Japan via Toyama. When the time came, Nigel sped off to catch the plane take off but it was flying away from him and the footage was too shaky. We decided to wait for the next one at 18:10. We did some other filming and tried to book our hotel in Kenting for the contest. We went out again at the right end this time and we both filmed it. It's pretty amateur and not directly under the plane like Nigel wanted but it would do.

It was getting late so we went to look for the next mystery campsite. We found one on the coast, next to the beach and a swimming spot. When we got there, it was dark and it looked like the office was closed so we drove in looking where we could pitch the tent. There were others sleeping in huts so we went to the opposite side. We got there then saw the caretaker heading towards us with 3 others. Of course he was talking too fast for us to understand what he wanted even when we kept saying, "we don't understand," in Japanese. After 5 minutes of confusion we understood that we couldn't stay there. We could not camp at the campsite, nor could we stay in a hut either. He wanted us to leave. So we apologized and said, "gomenasai and sumimasen" for sorry but he obviously didn't accept our apology and started looking at our license plates and saying more stuff. We just took off shocked. We ended up pitching the tent in the dark in some marshy field next to the beach. I had no problems with that. This campsite was free.