I am not much of a hat wearer. But I bought a hat for last year’s Camino, and I really, really liked it!

It fit and worked well. It kept the sun off my ears, and the rain off my eyes/glasses.

It lasted the whole of the Camino. No problem.

I started wearing it back in Canada, for hikes when it was sunny and hot.

But then, disaster struck! On an overnighter with my daughter, to Aster Lake in the Kananaskis, it flew away – we were hiking up a long and tedious scree field, and a sudden wind gust blew it off my head and down a steep cliff. No way to get it back.

So I walked on, hatless.

I loved that hat! I decided to check with the store where I originally bought it to see if they still had some, and, yes! They did! I purchased “The Hat vs. 2”, and it fit me just as well as vs. 1. Maybe better.

Another thing that happened a lot last year on the Camino is when people asked where I was from, if in English, no problem. “From Canada”. But if in Spanish, “Soy del Canadá” pretty much always got the answer, “De Canadá? No, sois Argentina!” [ Side Note: In Spain they say “sois”, in Argentina “sos”, in most of other Latin America “eres”. All three mean the same: “are” in English. ] So I would say, “Nacida en Argentina, por mucho tiempo en Canadá. Pero el acento no se pierde”.

So for this year’s Camino I decided to “upgrade” my hat. I put two pins on it, one the Argentinian flag, the other the Canadian flag.

I guess I am both, Canadian and Argentinian.