Adventure Pants

I am preparing for a trip to the UK where my more traveled daughter is attending the School of Witchcraft and Wizardry at Pembroke. After reading one of her current blogs on an outing to the Peak Region she recently embarked on and the misfortunes that resulted there in, I decided to re-think my traveling wardrobe. I needed new pants. Something with lots and lots of pockets for water bottles and maps. Perhaps emergency rations would be a good idea. So my DH and I went to Sam's Outdoor Outfitters in search of such amazing pants.

These are my observations on buying pants. No matter how much weight you lose, women will not change pant sizes. However, if you buy men's pants, you'll drop 2 sizes. It's true. Also being a size 10 is a pain in the butt. No matter what style I choose, the 10's were all gone and an 8 is too tight and a twelve is too loose. Why don't they make womens sizes 9 and 11? People may claim that Americans are all overweight and I see quite a bit of evidence to support that but in my experience, there are more sized 10 ladies out there than any other size and they all shop before I do.

So I could not not buy overpriced adventure pants in the ladies section. I mosied over the men's where DH had an armload of goods. Now here's the nice part, men's clothes come in single unit sizes. I tried on the 32's because that's what I usually wear. Oh ho! My diet had kicked in and the 32's were too large. Success! I could go to a 31, but no; also too large. How nice that I had the option to try it on however. In men's clothes, you don't have to jump 2 sizes each increment. I found the most amazing adventure pants in a 30. Loads and loads of oversized pockets and they were cheap! Also, men's pants don't gap in the back, are made better and come in much nicer fabrics!

I am ready for the highlands and whatever Oxychap may throw at me.