Breaking In Newish Boots

 

Adventure Location:

Decatur, Alabama

Date: March 13, 2024

Today was a hodgepodge of events that flopped around like a freshly run over rattle snake. The walk this morning was with our new (three years ago) shoes. We like to get them ahead of time so we do not have to worry when the current pair gives up on us. The OFM wears a size 10 EEEE boot and they are not normally kept in store stock.

Any way we wore them out onto the trail and right away we needed to adjust the shoe strings for better fit. So at the first bench we went to work reworking the shoe strings tightness.

Then not real far on down the trail we had to sit down on the next bench and do some really serious “adjusting” to everything about the boot. After breaking a strong sweat adjusting the boot we got them in good shape to fit the OFM strange shaped feet. For the rest of the over two miles we got along pretty well.

Now we need to get in several miles on all sorts of terrain to get feet and boots happy with each other.

Along the trail we had our first for the year tree trunk of turtles sunning themselves today. Plus we even got a nice picture of them.

Spring must quickly be getting here.

At several locations along the trail was downed and rotting wood that had fungus growing on it. Today we noticed that a lot of the fungus had green mold growing on it. No wonder the OFM has the sniffles this time of the year.

Now for the important new information. A you readers know this has been a long session time of repair troubles for the OFM, Sierra and the Castle. If the new glasses that are on order and due in late next week actually come in and are the correct prescription etc then we feel it will be safe for us to do some rolling late this spring.

With that in mind we went over some our records and found that being north of I\10 in Texas by the end of March is a good idea when boondock traveling. Tomorrow we plan to recheck our data from this blog and the National Weather Service to make sure we do not put our selves in weather that is too hot to have fun in. We already know we want to be back in grandkid land by about June 1. That means we have about two months to work with. Then we would be able to go back to our old yearly schedule that used to work so well for several years.

Every one have fun and we hope your good dreams come true.