{"id":4283,"date":"2012-06-16T21:22:28","date_gmt":"2012-06-17T04:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=4283"},"modified":"2016-01-28T15:16:03","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T23:16:03","slug":"hats-and-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/hats-and-shoes\/","title":{"rendered":"Hats and Shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-20-at-9.43.27-AM.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Screen-shot-2012-06-20-at-9.43.27-AM-300x236.png?w=150\" alt=\"Shooz!\" title=\"Shooz!\"  class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-724\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span class=\"wpsdc-drop-cap\">T<\/span>oday, after attending a young friend&#8217;s graduation, we headed over to Cabela&#8217;s to exchange my hiking shoes. I had purchased a pair of Merrils several weeks ago, but after about 20 miles of hikes they had not broken in. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, they&#8217;d gotten more and more painful the more I wore them. So I exchanged them for a pair of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.keenfootwear.com\/us\/en\/product\/ss12\/shoes\/men\/trailhead\/siskiyou%20mid%20wp\/black%20olive!harvest%20gold\" target=\"_blank\">Keen Siskiyou Mids<\/a>. These already fit better after just one very short hike.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/AdventuryHat.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/AdventuryHat-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"Adventury Hat\" title=\"Adventury Hat\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-722\" \/><\/a>I also bought a hat. Now, I&#8217;m a hat guy; I certainly own more hats than shoes. Other than my pith helmet (which is hardly appropriate for hiking <em>or<\/em> the Camino) I had nothing that constituted an adventury hat.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tilley.com\/The-T3-Cotton-Duck-Hat.aspx?id=10CD03HT0T32971\" target=\"_blank\">Tilley hat<\/a> I bought is amazing, and it looks to be near indestructible. I&#8217;m very pleased with it.<\/p>\n<p>I did notice one odd thing, though, when we were hiking around <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fws.gov\/Nisqually\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nisqually<\/a> later, I ran into a number of older gentlemen wearing Tilleys. Each of them without fail would look up at my hat, smile, and make what I now know to be the Secret Old Guy Tilley Hat Fist Bump. <\/p>\n<p>It was weird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, after attending a young friend&#8217;s graduation, we headed over to Cabela&#8217;s to exchange my hiking shoes. I had purchased a pair of Merrils several weeks ago, but after about 20 miles of hikes they had not broken in. In fact, they&#8217;d gotten more and more painful the more I wore them. So I exchanged them for a pair of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camino"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1aGBK-175","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":86394,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/ninety-days\/","url_meta":{"origin":4283,"position":0},"title":"Ninety Days","author":"Thom","date":"28 December 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"The number of days to our next Camino continues to drop precipitously. Less than three months to go! At this point, equipment and footgear is all acquired. For shoes and socks, I have stuck with Keen. Their \u201cgarage\u201d store is in downtown Portland, and it\u2019s well worth a drop-by if\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Camino&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Camino","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/camino\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"IMG_6204","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_6204-185x300.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":83970,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/one-year-ago-a-bus-a-bridge-and-lavender-fields\/","url_meta":{"origin":4283,"position":1},"title":"One Year Ago: a Bus, a Bridge, and Lavender Fields","author":"Thom","date":"20 April 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"(from my journal) Astorga 20 April Breakfasted in the Benedictine hotel with Francine. We walked to the bus station \u2013 maybe 1.5 km \u2013 and caught the 9:30 bus to Hospital de \u00d3rbigo. Walked across town to Puente de \u00d3rbigo and walked across (and back across) the astonishing medieval bridge\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Camino&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Camino","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/camino\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Saint Benedict, Pray for Us!","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/9036259521_e22c7a6bb0_b.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/9036259521_e22c7a6bb0_b.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/9036259521_e22c7a6bb0_b.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/9036259521_e22c7a6bb0_b.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3914,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/gear-up\/","url_meta":{"origin":4283,"position":2},"title":"Gear Up!","author":"Thom","date":"13 June 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"While today is the feast of Saint Anthony of Padua, I really have little to add over what I wrote last year. Instead, I\u2019d like to ruminate a bit about next year. Yesterday at Mass, I heard the word \u201cpilgrim\u201d an awful lot, including twice the phrase \u201cpilgrim Church on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Camino&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Camino","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/camino\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/hiking-294x300.gif?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":86139,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/camino-preparations-update\/","url_meta":{"origin":4283,"position":3},"title":"Camino Preparations Update","author":"Thom","date":"25 November 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Since the rain and the early sunsets have curtailed much of our hiking schedule, little progress has been made in the training arena. We hope to address that this coming weekend. Since we\u2019ve already celebrated our Thanksgiving, we plan on getting out and about on this coming four days off.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Camino&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Camino","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/category\/camino\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Passport!","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thomryng.com\/camino\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/2015-11-25-10.46.41-225x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":20637,"url":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/comment-on-hat-and-shoes-by-equipment-update-mundus-tranquillare-hic\/","url_meta":{"origin":4283,"position":4},"title":"Comment on Hat and Shoes by Equipment Update | Mundus Tranquillare Hic","author":"Thom","date":"18 July 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"[...] And of course, there\u2019s my adventury hat. 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