i love your views on traveling; the vastness and the sharpness and the views from heights. exactly, yes.

(i might try out horimiya! the description sounds very intriguing).

i agree with you re: complicated fraught friendships, but for myself i'd also add us-against-the-world: friendships that are completely (not always healthily) rock-steady in a face of common enemy or enmity. the loalty holding fast.