… and I wasn’t really planning to tell you about it. We went on a whim; the original plan was Tajikistan but the logistics weren’t working out and Ukraine seemed cheap and interesting. But now the decision feels eerily prescient, as if we knew it wouldn’t be waiting for us in its current form much longer, as if I was aware there would come a more opportune time to reflect on the experience rather than just facing a bout of writer’s block.