Wearing out our hiking boots

Well, this week flew right on by! It's Friday already, and we haven't got much done yet!

On Wednesday, we went and picked up Ruth's father at "the villa" and took him for a drive. We stopped at Tom Horton's because he loves their coffee. If he had his way, we would have stopped at Dairy Queen too, because "ice cream is good for you" he says. But, we'll save that for another day.

Yesterday, we drove down to Ottawa to go see my mother for lunch. Hard to believe that her and Ruth's dad are almost exactly the same age. She's doing fine though.

On the way back, Ruth and I stopped at a trail near Wesley Clover Park in the west end of Ottawa.

Our little black rental car.

Not a bad little car. All the toys, including the computer screen that links to your cell phone. Very cool. You can just ask it anything. This voice recognition stuff has come a long way.

And it gets great fuel mileage, which is exactly what we wanted because we tend to drive a lot of miles whenever we come back to Ottawa. So far, the computer system says we are getting an average of 5.7 liters per 100 kms. That's the equivalent of 41 mpg, so we're happy with that!

A walk in the forest.

Didn't see another person on the trail.

We did 4.4 kms (2.7 miles) in 45 minutes. Not bad. We're making a concerted effort to do a fast paced 5 km (3 mile) walk every day.

And speaking of putting on some walking miles, my Merrell hiking boots are wearing out. Ruth's are as well.

I looked back to see when we bought them. I bought mine in November 2017, so it's been almost two years. The pair before lasted a year and a half. Ruth bought hers in April 2018, but they actually started to fall apart sooner than mine. 

We keep saying that we're going to try a different brand, but we always come back to Merrells because they are comfortable right off the bat. We've owned probably five pairs of Merrell hiking boots, and we put lots of miles on them. We think they used to last longer than they do now, but perhaps it's just because we use them a lot more now than the earlier pairs. 

And, we usually manage to get them on sale for around $130 CAD ($100 USD), so I guess if we get a year and a half out of them it's not that bad.

Either way, we have to do some shopping over the next couple of weeks and get some new ones before our Ecuador trip.

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