Almost every night in Kyoto, my brothers, our new Japanese friends around our age, my Japanese brethren (family friends since birth, same age as well), and our newly adopted Russian sister went out on midnight strolls. They usually started after 12am. Sometimes lasted till 5 or 6am, when the sun came up. Through rain or storm, nothing mattered. The only reason was to get to know each other, become closer. Whether become closer like family, or become closer like.. something more.

Time for another midnight stroll.

Listen to “Blue Ridge Mountains” by Fleet Foxes.

You won’t be disappointed. Well, probably not.