Goodbye Hike!

I accepted a new job in Montreal and so life has been a bit hectic preparing for the move. My lease had already ended in August and I was living out of my car for Newfoundland. Since being back I have taken advantage of some friends hospitality instead of getting my own place. This means I was pretty much still packed and ready to move!

The last week has been a lot of goodbyes. Since I was living currently in Nova Scotia, we have the Atlantic Bubble and once I leave, I don’t know when I can (easily) come back. It would be a lot easier to say goodbye, if we could plan visits in the future. I know a couple of my friends have family in Ontario and typically drive through Montreal every year to go visit them. They’ve all said when they do this that they will come visit me for a night. But with the Atlantic bubble nobody is currently doing this.

Mercury and Jayson invited me on a hike for my last weekend in Halifax and I was really looking forward to it. It would actually be my first hike since I got back from Newfoundland. if you remember my shoes from the ECT were defective so I returned them and hadn’t bought anything new yet. I raced around to find something to buy so that I could join them, and ended up buying exact same hiking boots that I had used for the past four years.

We chose to do the Crowbar Lake Trail which was the trail went on our first group hike together. It was really great getting to see them and spend some time with them for I left.

I’m definitely sad that as soon as I started finding hiking and backpacking friends I’m leaving. I hope to be active in Montreal hiking groups and make more friends. However, coronavirus is a much higher risk in Montreal so I have to be way more careful than I did in Halifax.

After our hike we went to the wooden monkey for dinner. Halifax has what is called the burger week as a fundraiser for the local food bank. It’s something I have pretty much attended every year that I’ve been here. Local restaurants create or feature a burger they already have and the majority donate a portion (1$-2$) of each burger to the local food bank. There are quite a number of 6$ burgers, some more expensive ones, ones that you get sides with, vegetarian, vegan, kangaroo, anything you can imagine.

We chose Wooden Monkey as they had a vegetarian alternative of their burger and it was delicious. I think it was actually my favourite burger that I had this year. I did try eight, six were split with friends though.