Breaking in Her New Boots...

Ashlynn was adamant that she didn’t want leather hiking boots for her 50-mile (80-kilometer) hike in Kenya, so it was very easy making a choice as there was only one option of waterproof nylon boots at our local outdoor adventure shop. Of course, I encouraged Ashlynn to break her boots in slowly like I did, but she had no intention of doing that. At least she was willing to walk around Vlietland with me and Kati on a beautiful day in early March.

Here she is testing her boots to see if they’re actually watertight.

They survived this very quick test, but the real test will be four days of hiking through the Kenyan rainforest.