TryonTheWorld

Always behind & RIP TikTok 😂

Annnnnd I’m back in Japan again. - Kyoto for the fall, Osaka for the winter, Okinawa for the plot, Tokyo for the auto salon, Mt Koya-san for the vibes, Kawachinagano for some life in the kwach. MY gosh im keen. Going to run from Nov to Jan with this trip so my posting is gonna be SLOW

😮‍💨 I’ve been getting around and not getting around to talking about it. So. Many. Drafts

Special thanks to the TikTok Community I built over the years - what a ....interesting time lol At its peak I had convinced over 55,000 people to follow my nonsense and they loved it. However, I did not lol it was a fun silly place for me to talk about life, but it wasnt something I enjoyed keeping up with.

Think my proudest moment was making it into some small news story American expats take to TikTok to raving about Australia’s working standards saying they’re ‘just gonna stay’ | 7NEWS or going viral for using the word cunt properly

Fiji

BULA BULA BULA BULA ROCKIN EVERYWHERE!!!!!

......I found you, miss new

BULA!

Alrighty, each time I take a trip for romantic purposes its going to get the Bradshoe. My gawd, I'm sorry here is another one.

Yep, this fuckin thing again.

Yall are going to pray for the day I get married so these can come to an end. ....anyway, its not this time.

Years ago we caught Setdown Bradshoe galivanting around Melbin fixing a fictious broken heart, and now, she has found a new bad romance.

ra ra, oh la la.

This whole year for Bradshoe was all about a blank slate and breaking norms.

And shake things up she did! A challenge to date the opposite of my usual type arose.

Bid farewell to a spicy South American tour....

* this tour requires a renaissance 🫦*

But uh......Fiji? you are living in Brisbane! what is this!?

*ahem* This made up character, and myself, never give up on frequency of travel for anyone, its catch flights not feelings; so if you have feelings, you best be catching those flights. Afterall my much-anticipated visit with my island ohana for HNL Pride and Halloween was on the whoreizon...

I met a dude, we will call contestant number 2 just before I left on my trip. After pushing my HI trip out from 10 to 25 days, I was on the mainland for an LA catch up. Watching this unfold aboard contestant number 2 grew anxious to see me. He was not yet aware I am notorious for this behaviour.

Contestant Number 2...."can we meet somewhere along the way?"

Me: "Fiji"

Let the games begin.

as i said.

On arrival Bradshoe and contestant number 2 are taken to a romantic villa on the ocean....splendid.

DO ME ON THE SWANS!

...

And he did.

The rest of this was chill. Small private island, couple villas.

relaxing down time from all my relaxing down time.

"We joked and we weaved our baskets" while drinking a fuck ton of Kava

This was the warmest water I've ever swam in btw

Look at this cunt.

Ended the whole thing with a couple days around the mainland - the mud bath was 10/10

I didnt go very far with contestant 2 when I got back to Brissy, but man that trip was a great time.

Queenstown

ITS MY BIRTHDAY

Yes - in a month I will be back in Hawaii showing my mom around my old stomping grounds. but I still want an island for my birthday, an island where I can dip my body in glacial fed waters and enjoy nature to the fullest.

IM GOIN TO QUEENSTOWN

I love this island because its not your typical tropical vibe - its like if Colorado was an island.

Casual - older - still a weirdo. On a stroll to find where im going to jump into this water....its FREEZING by the way

Getting closer....

Yes. Yes. YES.

I didnt care. I lived my best life. I felt every bit of this frigid water cut through my bones till I felt nothing and it was glorious.

Back on my bridge nonsense.

Had a nice Bday root out here

"can host"

Yeah look - I'm on my bday trip, not too keen on posting heaps. It was fucking awesome - deffo need to come back to NZ again.

Osaka

I BE IN OSAKA WITH THAT PAPA, TOOK THAT BEST TRIP

Loook, it didn't click with me right away that living in Australia means Asia is now at my doorstep...when I tell you I will be back here multiple times a year, is no joke.👹👹

Everyone knows Japan is one of my favourite places. Easy. But Japan during Golden Week??!

COUNT ME IN!! *note this is not a pervy piss play thing (DAMN), its actually a string of holidays so close together people take the whole week off....hence golden week...

Admittedly, Osaka is a food trip... I fuckin loveeee Japanese food, but even more honestly, I took this trip to be petty. I met this cool Brazilian guy who was in my face for two months bragging about his upcoming trip to Japan..."its SO HARD, to get to Japan"...."I have to go through so many hurdles to get there because I am from Brasil and they never approve our visas, it took so so long"....."I cant wait for my time in Japan"....none of this would bug me if it hadn't been stated in a braggadocio filled tone that implied I couldn't ever go there if I wanted. (I did not tell him I had already been)......so what did I do? Two weeks before he set off I booked this nice little holiday....said nothing to him...and let him watch me hop along Japan for two weeks without a care in the world.

Sit down, be humble 🎵

I landed and ran straight to Dontonbori, this is where heaps of nightlife and stuff happens....yada yada.

On IG people were taking this pic and of course, i had to. because I'm cReAtIve

I was TIRED as, so stopped into a cute gyoza spot, got some poses on, and then hit the hay...

as in hey, you have a lot to see you're not sleeping yet.

how can you sleep when there is so much to eat???? just look at ....this takoyaki.

and this apple waffle ice cream sandwich?!?

and this refreshing bev-er-augeeee

Heaven.

(whose the other drink you aren't asking?)

She is the coolest person you could ever meet, a fucking legend.

As you'd expect, everything is alive and bustling! The neon lined streets packed with incredible smells will live in my mind forever or until I forget about it (i have)

And during the day, she aint too shabby

unlike me...I needed to fix these under eye bags....hehe (next day) *googles energy drink*

When I came across the super tiny can of Monster3, i thought...wow....this is FUCKING ADORABLE.

what I didn't know is that this tiny cunt of a drink is potent as absolute fuck. There is little doubt in my mind that drinking a regular sized can of monster full of this concoction would kill you straight up.

Maybe I'm being dramatic, maybe I'm not.

All I know is I could feel my heartbeating in my asshole...

Anyway.

I kicked it at Triangle Park in Amerikamura along with the hip youths. They gather around with booze to skateboard and just vibe. 10/10 for a chill evening.

....

Want to do some serious bar hoppping? There is a 2 story structure called Misono Building, each floor is a U shaped hallway that is lined with these many doors. Inside each door is a bar, all of which are various sizes and aesthetic. It looks a bit dodgy, but some of those places were truly high end.

DO AS THE ABELHA SAYS

nobody could explain this. It was put up randomly and so be it.

Kyoto

艾薇兒 Mina saiko, arigatou

Lets clear the air. I am not a weeb. I am not into some weird Japanophillia. You won't catch me shoving Hello Kitty shit in your face. I am a serious person who came here purely for the cultural immersion of Japan's Golden Week and sight seeing.

All of that is a lie.

Ima Hello Kitty QWUEEEEEEEEEEN!

My 7 year old niece was having Japan Week at school, meaning I was finally able to be the cool guncle who was in Japan sending her pics of all the things she was talking about.... take that John Kittle.

How I looked this whole trip.....

Seriously, everything felt properly photogenic.

I'm a train girl, look at me being all mysterious....hey fun fact, some train cars in Japan are women only.....you know whats silly? If you get on at some stations, those lines don't add up to those at other stops and eventually you're the only man in a car full of ladies. 😬

FUCK ME UP!!!!!💓

And it doesn't end there! Kyoto has a billion shrines and temples to see....this post is 90% pic dump.

Shosei-en Garden

*adds to tinder profile, updates bio* "I'm worldly"

Me asking random people to take pics for me and forcing feedback while I look for other places to pose

i was fortunate enough to not miss both the 800th celebration of Jodo Shinshu and the 850th celebration of the birth of Shinran Shonin! (like duh, why would i)

There is an incredible feeling of power and transition - what felt like an endless line of people take a symbolic journey around the temple. You can't take photos inside, and of course out of respect, I kept pics as a whole at a minimum.

Higashi Hongan-ji Temple

Kyoto Gyoen National Garden

See that? PUT. A. BIRD. ON. IT

the 30 yr old gay smile

Obsessed with the stories carved in everywhere

door porn

Shōkoku-ji Temple

was a little weird this temple was almost completely empty.

堀川遊歩道 Park under Takeyamachi Bridge

Just random stuff around Kyoto.

So. Art.

The incredible basic bitch drive to take photos at Fushimi Inari was the sole influence behind this trip. For YEARSSSSSSS I envied people posting on IG with these orange pillars looking all coool, unbothered, wordly, trendy and hip. Yeah, fuck sake. It was MY time to shrine.

(hehe)

Fushimi Inari Taisha

Nah yeah, it was fucking awesome. When you start off at the entry it's so terribly packed with tourists holding their phones up that its hard to believe this is the same place... you really just get pics of people and their phones...the trick to this is to keep walking....and walking....

and walking...

and walking.

eventually you're half way up a mountain and you're met with large spans of empty pathways free of other influence hungry photographers (like me)....this...this is your moment.

Take selfies, make tiktoks, stop and read a book. Hell, anything.

I went to a lot of great restaurants and bars...my fave was this gay bar called Apple. Due to how packed in things are, it was a bitch and a half to find....but its small, intimate, lovely, and fantastic. The owner is incredibly kind and helpful, 10/10 would recommended. In a silly way, it was a bit of a bummer to be there and the other patrons be from America ---hey, it was something.

THE FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD