I'm back! And I've got good news and bad news. (Patreon)

We'll start with the good news since I'm currently in a pretty good mood, but it did take me about a month to get around to posting this update... so yeah...There's actually a whole bunch of good news, but the biggest of all of them is that I have a brand new project coming in in the next couple weeks for a customer here in Japan. It's one of my all time absolute dream cars and I'm happy beyond words to be able to work on one. So I'm super excited for that.There's also even more updates and some pretty cool announcements coming for the MR-S and the Twin builds coming soon as well that I hope to have videos up for in the coming weeks once I finish repairing the Silvia bodykit.And lastly some nice news is that some friends recently stopped by from New Zealand for a quick visit and we spent a couple weeks road-tripping around Japan, hiking, sightseeing, eating and just having an awesome time. It was great and I definitely felt like the break has re-invigorated me and I'm super pumped to get back to working on these builds.But that means now it's time to talk about the not so awesome news, and I think some of you may have seen the writing on the wall here. To make a really long story short, this will be my last year in Japan as the recent visa changes have made it effectively impossible for me to stay here. I know that sounds really not cool, and I'm sure some of you are thinking of other things I could try to get around it but please trust me when I say I have thought about absolutely everything, even getting a "job" for another company just to stay here on a work visa. But at the end of the day, everything was just so messy and it was going to take up so much time and money just dealing with the paperwork and everything else that honestly comparing staying here and struggling vs just moving back to NZ it's really made up my mind for me on returning to NZ.I've really enjoyed my time here in Japan and the friends I've made and people I've met I will endeavor to hold on to forever. The world is going through a bit of a rough patch right now and it's really not a great time to be a foreigner, especially in Japan. While I wont be living here anymore, I do not plan to sell my house or garage. My plan has always been to live in both Japan and New Zealand, and while I would have preferred that to be most of my time in Japan with brief visits back to NZ, it looks like it's going to be the other way around. I'll aim to return to Japan maybe once a year for a max of 3 months on the standard tourist visa. In that time I'll work on my Japan builds and do odd jobs for friends and customers here. So it's really not the end of the world and while it did kinda sting when I first realized this was happening, I've spent the past couple weeks getting over it and honestly actually getting pretty excited about moving back to NZ where you don't need to have an AC running 24/7 and the standard power grid has more than 100V coming out of it. And then to make this like a bad news sandwich I'll finish off with another bit of good news which is that I've already secured a piece of land in NZ (thanks mum and dad) and will be building a brand new garage, this time not full of dust or asbestos.So yeah, that's sort of what's been going on in the background here the past couple months actually, figured it was time to finally let you know.I'll be announcing this in an upcoming video, maybe not my next one but probably the upcoming MR-S video.No new pictures or updates to share on the builds just yet but here's a few pics I grabbed during the road trip and on some of the hikes.