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My story is not really of a vacation but of a lack of 'vacation'. The time I wanted to use this summer for vacation biking was replaced by a relocating to Edmonton, AB. My wife and I decided to leave the beautiful location of Nanaimo, BC on Vancouver Island and move back to Alberta. My wife left first as she got a job which wanted her to start prior to us actually moving there. This left me to pack up the lion's share of a two bedroom condo, one storage unit, three cats and all our gear in approximatley 3 weeks time. I was able to 'sqeeze' in a couple of rides prior to departing, with my buddies but this is no vacation when you have relocation on the brain.

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Twas a hot day on the trail and Abe, Dave and myself were having one of our regular saturday morning rides on the Doumont Trail system in Nanaimo, BC. We were on a trail called 'Styx' which is a winding, rooty trail with lots of upturned trees and rotting logs. At one point we had stopped for a breather and some H2O. Dave was having a drink when he though he had a stick stuck in his shirt as he was being 'poked'. But it kept sticking into him - time and time again. He had actually stopped about 5 feet from a wasps nest in the side of a rotten fallen log. Then it really started to sting and that is when he realized it was something biting him.

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