Fedoras afield

[Blackthorn]

Just got back from the latest of my trips. This one began in Thailand:


The summer palace:

strolling thru a neighborhood in Bangkok:

visiting the ancient city of Ayuthaya:

as it turns out, the legends were wrong...there was no gold in the idol:

 

[Rogera]

Charlie, Mike, Tedquinton, nice shots guys!
Wow Blackthorn, you get around sir! Beautiful pictures. My wife really wants to go to Cambodia one of these days.

 

[ManofKent]

Blackthorn - great photos!

 

[hatsRme]

Wonderful photos, (and hat!) Blackthorn. I like your summer palace better than mine! Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the comment Rogera... are you going directly to Cambodia from Boston, or are y'all headed home first?

A&A your skating photos are fantastic family fun! Great visuals, sir... superb lid! Keep those pics coming.

LotsaHats, travelling with hat boxes is a sore subject around here. Although I pack carefully, not all hats are in their own box. For convenience and speed of packing, I have taken to using large (CLEAN) boxes, from BJ's Wholesale. Picture a large bottom, yet not-to-tall box. I place two hats side by side in these boxes, also placing one more atop each of those, usually with a foam spacer in between. These boxes go into the car LAST. Moreover, I'm lucky to drive a Chevy Suburban, which my wife thinks I could sell if I didn't need to transport hats. I hate when she might be right...

Thank you, Eric! I could been a contenda... (I was more of a "beached" boy.) I'll bet they STILL speak of you around Stratton Mountain!

MikesPens, that moss green lid is smashing on you, my friend. Beautiful vista of the river, and, boy, are you right on the shoulder... Gotta WORK that mutha!

ManofKent, Thank you for the kind comment. Poor Beach Boys...!

Tedquinton your Fed IV looks fabulous with the open crown... Your son could be onto something?! Both the hat AND your son look great in both shots!

 

[Tedquinton]

Cheers for the comments

I went to Thailand a few years ago. It's a magical place to visit. Would love to return one day and take in Cambodia as well.

Ted

 

[Blackthorn]

Thank you for the kind words, gentlemen.

Btw, if any of you get the chance to travel to Cambodia, jump on it. It's even better than Thailand.

 

[bowlerman]

Incredible.

 

[Chepstow]

Charlie, Mike, Ted and Blackthorn, great pics gentlemen, thank you for posting these adventures!

 

[mikespens]

Blackthorn, I was fortunate enough to visit Thailand in the 70's as well as most of the area except Cambodia. Relations weren't too warm then

Charlie, a Suburban is a pretty fair hat hauling rig. I use this nifty one, 2 inside and one on the noggin. Pictured with some fine souveniers picked up at a top notch local liquor store here in Hood River, Ore.

 

[Worf]

Wow Blackthorn when you say "afield" you mean AFIELD!!!! I've been to most of those sites but I was in uniform at the time. Your photo's almost make me want to go back. They also make me want to burn my camera!!!! A trip to the Hudson can't compete with that! Err what hat were you a wearin' on your noggin?

Worf

 

[bowlerman]

Mike, I know another thread where that pic could go! I love Apple Pie Shine, but enlighten me on the other bottle?

 

[Blackthorn]

Wow Blackthorn when you say "afield" you mean AFIELD!!!! I've been to most of those sites but I was in uniform at the time. Your photo's almost make me want to go back. They also make me want to burn my camera!!!! A trip to the Hudson can't compete with that! Err what hat were you a wearin' on your noggin?

Worf

Thanks for the kind words, Worf. My travel hat isn't an actual fedora, per se, but it's the one in the link below. I travel in too many really hot countries to take any of my prized fur felt hats there...they'd get destroyed. Here's my hat, but they don't seem to offer it any more in khaki:
http://www.outbacktrading.com/shop/item.aspx?itemid=147

 

[mikespens]

Mike, I know another thread where that pic could go! I love Apple Pie Shine, but enlighten me on the other bottle?

Kah Anejo Tequila Jeff.

Lunch at Fpriem Family Belgium Brewery in Hood River, Ore this afternoon. Brat's made in house



Nice wind surf rig in the parking lot

 

[dh66]

Awesome pics from everyone. My wife has been bogartin' my phone the lat few days cuz she left hers in the rain and I've missed a ton.
Blackthorn those shots are incredible.
Rogera thanks for takin' us to Boston.
HatsrMe the pies look deeelicious, and for a minute I thought you were channeling Bladerunner with the flying car there.
Mike that looks like a beautiful trip, and those sausages sure look tasty. I've bought a few jars of shine here in Bama but none ever had a tax stamp like that. The tequila in the calavera is pretty decent but damn they're proud of it. Had some around this time last year.
Whilst I eas smartphone deprived I spent a little time with our old lap top that doesn't have all the letters left. Hard to google Fedora Lounge without a working L key. Anyway, I lifted a few pics from last winter. I'm wearing a B-wear gatsby cap, not a fedora, but I'm about as far afield as I've ever been.

That's me standing on the Potemkin Steps, on the coast of the Black Sea.
Here's a view from the top

And a few more random from Odessa

Cathedral of St. Luke

The opera house

Deribosovskaya


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[hatophile]

Great photos Mike and dh.

 

[ManofKent]

Great photos Mike and dh.

+1 - great to see them

 

[g.durand]

dh66--great photos. As I scrolled down the page and saw your first photo on the steps I immediately recognized them as the setting for one of the most famous scenes in movie history, the massacre on the Odessa steps in the 1925 film Battleship Potemkin by Sergei Eisenstein. Since you referred to them as the Potemkin steps, does it mean you've seen the film? And the last shot of Deribosovskaya just makes me want to visit the Continent again in winter. Hmmm, what hat should I take?

 

[mikespens]

Although you were pretty far afield dh66, the weather looks awful familiar to me........

 

[bowlerman]

Mike and dh66, beautiful shots!

 

[Blackthorn]

+1 - great to see them

+1!! I've never been to that side of the Black Sea, but I hope to some day.