Incidentally, this is our urban hiking kit. Reading glasses for our old peepers, earplugs for those places where people and machinery get TOO LOUD, tissue for noses that don't deal too well with all the smog, mold and pollen floating around, and last but not least, pepper spray for the dirtbags that infest every major urban area it seems. We've never had to use it, but we've come close a couple of times.



A good sturdy canvas bag means we don't use either paper or plastic when we make purchases.

On into downtown proper ...