08 June 2006
The Approaching Retirement
Over four and a half years ago Renee and I bought our first Chaco’s before we headed to the DR for Christmas. It was a grand purchase. Not long before this trip, I noticed that the sole on my right shoe had cracked. Ok…so when I get back, I’ll send them into get resoled. No big deal. Well…I recently examined them a bit more carefully. The shoe bed on inside edge of the left one is seriously scuffed. You can see all the wear spots on the straps as the blue and red innards of the webbing are showing. I think this will be the last big trip for my Chaco’s. It will be fun to find a new pair, but I do not look forward to breaking them in. However, the current ones have probably only lasted this long due to the very long Indiana winters during which they stay hidden away at the back of my closet. One of the students traveling with me asked if I would bury them. No way!! They are going into retirement after this trip—you never know when a worthy cause will pull them out of retirement.
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Pam~
Mine were showing the blue and red innards of the webbing as well, and I had them rewebbed--it worked well, and they're not headed toward retirement. However, with your soles and the webbing.... you may need to just--gasp!--get new ones. So sad. I can still remember the day they arrived by mail at Tambo.... it was like having my best friends join me. Sigh. We shall have a ceremony when you return.
I recruited another chaco convert today! Hurrah!
Also, fyi for all chaco lovers who are as out of the loop as I was: chaco has done away with the two different kinds of soles and now only sells a renewed boot cut. It's quite lovely.
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