We got up super early, thank goodness we were without hangover. Got on our bus and headed back to Yerevan where we were going to get a taxi to Goris. Goris is a 4 hour drive from Yerevan and taxi is the way to do it. We had planned to eat lunch in Yerevan so we went to La Boheme and cute nice place on Northern Ave. There we had what seems like the only nice Armenian waiter. We had been there a few times (Ashley more) so he knew us. We leave Yerevan on a good note.
From there we met our taxi that we pre-ordered before we left for Dilijan. It seems to be a day of firsts since this was the first time we had a taxi driver who didn't look like Pauly from "Rocky" after he had a few. He was a young kid and was driving a nice Bentley. We are off! Four hours of open road here we come! I tell you these Arnenians have a thing about lanes. They just don't like them cramping their style. Here is a suggestion - how about we stay in our lane Mr. Taxi Man and Mr. Mack Truck maybe you can stay in your lane so Lyndsay doesn't keep having mild heart attacks in the back seat here. The young lad had a USB stick for music and his taste was mostly Armenian dance music but with American hip hop/dance as well as a splash of Lionel Ritchie's "Lady"? Odd. We are heading up and then down a mountain keeping a good distance from the guardrail ( 2 inches seems like a good distance right? Right? Oh Lord). The guard rail had huge pockets where they didn't exist which did not give me much faith that others hadn't already driven off the edge.Winding up and down the mountain driving along with steep winding turns apparently does not warrant the need to slow down or to be cautious. Nope. Let's speed up?! Okay great - no problem kid. Well if I must go barrelling down a canon and the guardrail has failed to save us I guess it would be poetic to fall off while Snoop Dogg is crooning "Drop it like it's Hot".
We actually got stopped by a policeman! So exciting. In Armenia the driver has to get out and actually meet the cop at the cop car. If that happened in North America the driver would probably be arrested and seen as hostile. I think our kid bought him off though cause he came back smiling and without any kind of ticket.
We got to Goris safe and sound and it actually turned out to be a beautiful ride. The scenery was amazing and the sun was out, the wind in my hair - all around a great afternoon. It has inspired me to maybe take a long road trip next year across Canada. I might even put some Lionel on my mixtape.
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