Today was a good day all in all. I started the day by going to the river and playing my shakuhachi. For me it felt like the first real day of autumn here. A thin fog lay over the city giving it a nice feeling. The trees are beginning to change colors and the temperature has dropped some. Early in the morning now has the brisk feel of an autumn day back in Spokane. After I returned home I decided to venture out and about. I decided to take a random road to see where it would take me. I went up one bridge from the one going to Kamigamo Jinji and went up a road. It wound around a bit and led me to a college at the edge of the city. Classes must have just been getting out as row after row of mopeds and motorcycles wizzed by on the road. After I passed the school I continued on alittle ways until I got to the end of the city and a road that led to Kurama and Kibune, small towns about 30min drive from there. I will have to visit them before I leave. I walked back around to an area of the city I had previously been and visited a temple I had been meaning to see again. I got a couple pictures of the temple and made my way back home. All in all it only took me about 3 hours of walking to make that loop. I had a strange feeling though, a twinge of lonelyness struck at me for some reason. I came back home and to the store, ate some dinner around 4 and then kinda made up an excuse for myself to go visit Taka. I'm certainly glad I did. We talked until about 7 and then walked under the light of the moon down past the botanical gardens and talked some more. That evaporated any of my lonely feelings from earlier in the day. I have been coming up with many topics for us to discuss. For me she is one in a million, a person I can talk to like this brings a different kind of feeling for me. I can talk to anyone, but this kind of click happens and it brings a new level to the relationship. Well anyway. Now I am tired and thinking to much to get anymore writing done. Oyasumi

Chris