The Walk of REI Shame

I have this awesome pair of hiking boots. I wear them hiking and also use them on my mountain bike. My feet grew half a size recently. Ever so slowly my boots became too small, along with the rest of my shoes. I was talking about it, and since these were pricey REI boots, my friends convinced me to take them back for an exchange in a size that works.

So, I head into REI and take my boots to the counter. As the woman takes them out of the bag, she looks at my boots iwth a raised eyebrow. Instead of my faithful boots, I see a pair of heavily used, slightly tattered boots with water stains and shredded soles from mountain bike pedals.

She looks up my account and says "You bought these in 2006."

Wow, 2006. Now I felt like a total ass. She said they'd still take them back, but it just didn't seem like the right thing to do. I took my boots and made my walk of shame back to the car.

Firetastic

As I am typing this I can look over and out my window and see the foothills burning red. Crazy. It's been really dry and just two weeks ago I saw a fire up past Boulder. It reminds me of Jimi Hendrix, but I don't want to stand next to the fire. The picture really doesn't do it justice.