OUR TRAVELLING
Circus
The true test of a relationship is to take it
on the road! by Caroline Hale, Nanaimo, B.C.
Above: Gryn
(left) and Zak
settle in to the
backseat, while
Gunner the
cat keeps Nik
company in the
front seat.I
am a firm believer that road trips were
created to test the foundation of a re-
lationship. I know that was true in our
case. I struggle to even call what we
achieved a “road trip” when “circus”
seems a much more accurate description.
Whatever it was, it has brought us closer,
and we are stronger than ever before so I
wouldn’t change it for anything.
Last summer, my boyfriend Nik and I
decided to move from Vancouver Island
to Nova Scotia in hopes of finding a house
that we could aord. Because we wanted
to bring our car along, we decided to make
a road trip of it. How big could Canadabe anyway? So we packed up our Honda
Civic and set o early one morning. Now
before I go any further, when I say packed
up, I don’t just mean a trunk stued with
our most precious belongings. We were
also bringing along our three fur babies.
We are parents to a 25-pound Jack Rus-
sell-cross named Zak, a 50-pound choc-
olate Lab named Gryn and a cat called
Gunner. We had initially planned on hav-
ing Gunner flown out, but with the added
cost of airfare, we decided that he’d best
come along for the ride as well. Now you
might be starting to understand why I’ve
been using the word circus to describe16 Our Canada AUGUST / SEPTEMBER 2019