![]() ![]() “I really want to do more scooter trips,” he says. Mort Nathan), 986 Outstanding Technical Direction/ Camera/Video for a Series. 22 hours ago &0183 &32 Japanese backpacker Uni, 23, with Ingham resident Glen Ceff, who offered to put him up for the night in the north Queensland town. ![]() Smooth (Team Kelly), Gina Miles (Team Niall), Sorelle (Team Chance), and NOIVAS (Team Blake) were all voted to. However, his homecoming may be short-lived. During the May 15 Live Show, Grace West (Team Blake), D. With Joey Lauren Adams, Elizabeth Gillies, Paul Iacono, Thorsten Kaye. He is due to fly back to Japan shortly after arriving in Cairns on Saturday. Having left Melbourne in the height of summer, he has chased the warmth north. Uni says he is excited to be heading back to Japan, where he is keen to continue his run of “endless summers”. In Ingham he insisted on conducting the interview in English, proudly insisting we would not need translation as he did in February. Uni can speak English now, after months of speaking to strangers along the route. “Even though I couldn’t speak English at that time, they were very kind and they cried when we said goodbye,” he says. His favourite part of the trip so far was his first night in Seymour, a central Victorian town about 100km north of Melbourne, where a local family invited him to stay. “If I am honest, I chose to come to Australia because it was shaped like the Japanese island of Shikoku, which is one of my favourite places.” “Wherever I went, people would give me water, places to stay, people helped me fix my scooter. ![]() “I didn’t think there was this many nice people in Australia,” he says. Photograph: says he has been humbled by the welcome he has received from Australians. Uni in Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast, Queensland. ![]()
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