05 January 2014

Brews, Buddhists, and Battlements: A Trip to Cape Breton

(Note: This is a guest post by Will, about events that transpired before meeting up with Kelly in Boston for a visit to my family there over the summer of 2013) 

This is the story of a road trip I took with several of my closest friends up to Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, on Canada's North Atlantic coast, north-east of Maine. They had been traveling for a couple of weeks on a long trip starting in Los Angeles, and I flew in to the Halifax  them for the Cape Breton adventure


Our friend Ben has family connections to the area, and his parents have a house up in Nova Scotia that we had all visited several times before, but none of us had ever made it to Cape Breton, an island connected to the northern end of mainland Nova Scotia by a small causeway: