Run For One Planet Blog

On September 30th, we ran off the Newfoundland Ferry and slept by the light of the Canadian Tire as we were knackered after the 20 hour crossing back to North Sydney.

Three days worth of back-to-back double marathons got our running legs back in business and we soon arrived into Pictou, Nova Scotia where were welcomed in once again by the incomparably talented brother of my agent, Peter Young, who welcomed us in to his family’s five acre spread complete with 100+ year-old farm house to enjoy our non-run day.

Saturday, October 4th had us lounging over a late breakfast (seriously, we slept in until 10:00am – a first!) when Steph received an email from a Victoria Cate, the wonderful daughter of Green Party Leader, Elizabeth May, inviting us to her Mom’s ‘Green Gig’ in New Glasgow. So we tossed our non-event day aside and flew into high gear to make it for the 4:00pm welcome! Elizabeth was really gracious and personable, completing her ‘gig’ by delivering a powerful speech to her supporters… Steph and I even got to open for Elizabeth by speaking to the crowd about the tour, and how just like our votes, every action counts. Not too shabby for a lazy Saturday afternoon.

I’ll finish by letting everyone know our “science experiment” we’ve had going since departing May 4th actually worked!! Yes folks, the red wriggler worms were busy over these past months inside our Composter (courtesy of Transform Compost) and what we thought was a failed experiment in taking worms across Canada under extreme temperature changes, much shaking (which they don’t like) by the RV screaming down the highway at 6 miles an hour, and no additional food since about Winnipeg.

BUT these worm dudes and dudettes were busy making babies and when I went into the compost yesterday to clean it for our entry into America, I found a whole box of amazing, organic, rich stinky DIRT! It was so cool! These worms ate everything and made it through a huge journey which we all thought they’d taken one for the team by giving their lives to Run for One Planet science experiment. I am stoked to start it up again once we hit the US. But it’s a good thing we cleaned it out because we’d have probably set off the bio hazard warnings going across the border if we’d have left it inside the RV as is. So we took some pictures and gave them all a new home at the farm, complete with a mom deer and her two fawns happily nibbling on the low hanging fruit on the pear tree.

And today, October 5th we celebrate the 5 month marker of being out on the road!