trouble has a way of finding you, no matter where you are in life
one of the major benefits of not having a car is the simplicity it allows: can i walk/bus/bike/hitch a ride there? if not, then i don't go. no car repairs to deal with, no insurance or car payments or paying for parking. all things considered, it's a great way to live
the only problem is when your footwear starts failing...
my boots have started to come apart. that's no huge deal, except that they're practically brand new (less than a month old). and the reason i bought these in the first place is because two other pairs simultaneously self-destructed, leaving me in a tenuous travel situation for a short while. i plan on exchanging this pair (i still have the receipt), but i hate to walk in there with a dirty, wet, and smelly pair of boots right after work and ask to exchange them for a new pair (assuming they have something in stock that is functional and that fits).
i thought transportation cares and concerns were supposed to evaporate without having a car... apparently i was wrong. but that's ok. i do have footwear, even if it's no longer waterproof because it's coming apart. actually, i have several pairs of boots/shoes/sneakers (all in various states of disrepair), which is far more than the majority of the world's population has available to them
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I bought my cabela's boots last year and have had great success with them... Perhaps something to consider.
My friend told me that you and I "would get along famously" as he put it.
Either way, I'm currently looking for a good pair of walking/travelling/work shoes that could replace my current ECCO shoes, as these now have the obscure tendency to suck up the water from the ground and direct the humidity towards my toes and heal, and in these snowy/slushy times with all the salt that the cars require to not drive of the roads, my feet are almost constantly wet, so do you have a suggestion?
i really like both merrell and keene; i think merrell might be a little more heavy-duty, but keene shoes/boots have an amazing fit. can't go too wrong with either, i don't think
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