goris grey

This southern town, Goris, has been hiding the sun from me for days. I can hardly stand another day of all clouds. It's a good thing I'm here with a best friend, or I'd shrivel right up. Still, I have loved late nights watching The West Wing with Zoe, and yesterday sitting with her at a cemetery up in the craggy hills of Old Goris, musing, talking to cows and watching lizards.

Honestly, maybe it's the missing vitamin D, but I need to go north, get to some sun, get back to my North Armenia home. For the next few days I'll have to settle for the capital, where I've got close-of-service meetings with PC staff. It's not home, but I am looking forward to wearing tank tops, munching a veg burrito at Taco Maco, slurping limetta at the new gellato place off Northern Avenue, munching lebanachos at Lagonid, and enjoying a mojito my friend's new bar, D.I.Y.

Zoe and I will take the switchbacks to Yerevan and stay with our friend, Tim, who is temporarily fostering two cats for a departing PCV who recently and suddenly been evicted.

Ah, yes, that's what I need. Sun, good food, good friends, and some cats to cuddle when I get home at night.