I gotta admit tho, I liked this hat better, Having a canted-up or rolled-up brim on a hat like they do on Stetsons makes no sense at all other than style, and style ain't gonna block the sun. This 2014 hat came from REI, seen here towards the end of its useful life, I bought it specifically for that trip but the previous 33 days had been rough on it. They no longer carry it.

So here's that 5,000 calories per day stud from five years back, Right at 2,000 miles grin

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Surprisingly hard sometimes to find a good hat tho. I got my present one I used on this trip from the Army/Navy Store in Aransas Pass TX, on the corner down the street from HEB, run by that Korean lady. Far and away the best place I have found for serious hats. She caters to fishermen on the Coast. I always stop in whenever I'm down there.

"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744