I’m totally cool with that part! I remember walking home from the event and thinking “wow the streets are empty considering how early it is” only to realize it was 10:30pm.

The lat few days of our trip the sun never set. Blackout shades are all I need to solve that.

It’s the lack of sun in winter I couldn’t handle.

So why were the streets empty that early?

EDIT: I now realize most people won't get the tongue-in-cheek nature of my comment, as over here 10:30 is considered quite early and most people go out at midnight, with the peak being around 2am.

It was a work day and I was in the business area I guess?

Add mosquitoes during those summers. Land of thousands of lakes has gazillions of them. Bigger ones then I was used from central Europe. Don't transmit any diseases, but boy having 50-100 stings on any non-covered part of the body is pretty annoying. After a week I've got used to it, you cover whatever you can, and unless you scratch them, stings become easy to ignore.

We met a guy who was hitchhiking, so had to stick out his arm. Afterwards he counted 168 bites on a single arm.

Go during the winter and you wait for it to get light, you wait, and... it never happens! :P