Farewell, Moby!

The time has finally arrived to bid adieu to Moby. After faithfully carrying us the length and breadth of the US, and then home to BC, he's back on the car-lot, looking for a more 'normal' existence for a minivan: carting kids to soccer practice and back. Or maybe he'll find another pair of vagrants to hit the open road with...

In Moby's parking space is now an as-yet unnamed sedan, which boasts a great stereo, fantastic handling, and even heated seats, but barely sleeping room for Max the tabbycat. It's a toss-up which vehicle suits carrying a canoe less, but the new one sure is easier to park!


Is this really our car?

Tall Ships, Nanaimo, and Hornby

Lady Washington reducing sail

After taking advantage of Megan's parents' place for recovery (again) and spending a day at the Tall Ships festival in Victoria, we headed up-island to Nanaimo for some climbing. At least, that was the plan. The crag we went looking for was somewhere in the middle of a new housing development, so all the trail directions in our guidebook were wrong. We wandered a bit, but after a month each in Red Rocks and Yosemite we weren't really all that charged up for the little Nanaimo crags anyway so we didn't look all that hard. We chilled out at camp for one day, and the next we met up with Megan's friend Jenny, who was laid up with a badly sprained ankle and looking for some distraction. We had dinner with them and a few beers, and crashed in their spare room. Sleeping in a bed is becoming a habit again! The next day we rented movies and chilled out some more before returning to camp.

The next day we were off to Hornby island, for a few days of amazing, fun, non-scary mountain biking. In 2 days Megan went from dismounting to avoid obstacles to rolling over them at full speed and with great style! The island is just as beautiful as Dave had remembered from visits as a kid and BikeFest, but details of winding down our trip a bit ahead of schedule led us to shorten our visit to just 2 nights. Dave was in the midst of looking for work, and Todd would be moving earlier than originally planned so we headed back to Vancouver & Victoria to start getting our 'real' life together.


Megan getting into the spirit of island camping