Riding in Cars with Girls.

I’ve never travelled with girls before...

It’s quite strange that I haven’t. I think at one stage I was in a group that consisted of something like seven boys and myself. My New Yorker was confused when she saw who I'd rolled into town with. Her immediate reaction was to ask; ‘where's the harem of male followers you normally have running around with you?’ So for me to travel with Hayley and Jodie made me a little nervous.

We’d all met working together in Whistler and we all lived in staff housing. With quality bonding activities like this;

everyone gets to know each other pretty quickly.

We'd decided to go to Ontario to see Jodie because she'd left Whistler to go back home some time ago. Fun fact, I'd almost decided to live in Toronto over Vancouver so I was curious how my life would have played out if I'd made a different decision.

One thing that surprised me, was how flat the landscape is. The horizon stretches on for days and there’s barely a hill let alone any mountains. It's for this reason that Canadians in BC call it On-terrible. I think it's still pretty though because of all the fresh water lakes.

As far as the city itself is concerned, Toronto has so many things going for it. 

In 1992, on a hot Summers day, a woman took off her shirt and bra to expose her naked breast in public. After she was fined for indecent exposure, she took the inequality issue to court because men expose their hairy nipples.

It’s now legal for women to be topless in public.

That is probably my favorite Toronto fact and not just because of the obvious reasons. It sums up the city pretty well. Anything goes in Toronto. We also happened to be there during Gay Pride Week and I wondered what on Earth it would be like (marriage equality’s the hot protest topic in Australia and the argument against practically bores me now).

Would it just be one glorious week of Canadians screaming ‘we’re gay!’, colourful parades and pretty beads?! 

Nope, pride week in Canada had Canadians being proud to be gay, but it also acknowledged transgender and transsexual's within the community. Welcoming them. Embracing who they were.

I don’t think there’s anyone in the world that wouldn’t feel at home in Toronto. 

Well maybe if you’re bi-sexual… greedy bastards.

I was also just really excited to be travelling again. We’d planned out a routine for our road trip and assumed our roles. Jodie drove, 

I directed,

Hayley supplied her amazing company.

Being so used to travelling with guys, I’d forgotten how much girls talk when you're stuck in a confide space with them. Girls can talk so much more about a lot less.

For starters I didn’t know it was possible to divide the topic of ‘hair’ into a plethora of sub-topics. Like the best way to remove an ingrown hair, why store bought hair dye is so bad for your hair, how this shampoo doesn’t clean your hair as well as this other shampoo and the pros and cons to the thickness/thinness of ones hair.

Travelling as a group of three girls is weird because it seems to attract packs of (generally) strange and unattractive men. Hayley happily giggling and joking with 5 male security guards in the most homosexual part of Toronto, while Jodie drowns in a sea of all too keen lesbians, wasn’t exactly an irregular occurrence.

They also seem to get me into a lot more trouble.

It’s definitely something special when I can comfortably let myself fall asleep as Jodie’s little spoon and then having to say sorry for drooling on her pillow and she apologizes for drooling all over my back.

I love that we’re three people from very different backgrounds and from opposite parts of the world but we couldn’t relate to each other any better because we share the same passion;

Travelling.