So anyone who knows me will be well aware of my distain for materialism and people obsessing about objects that make no difference whatsoever in the grand scheme of things. There are only two items in my life that I would say have sentimental attachment to. One is the coffee mug that my dad brought me back from a trip to Germany when I was 10 or so, I didn't start liking coffee until I was eighteen but since then this mug has greeted me filled with a steaming life-giving brew almost every morning. The second is my travelling hat. I bought this hat in an upstate New York Walmart for about six dollars right at the start of my second summer at camp in 2002 and it has been on every adventure with me since. Travelling companions have changed, countries, continents, cultures, languages and luggage allowances have passed by but that hat has remained on my head through it all. Wouldn't be a true adventure without the hat :)
 

 


2001 - The hat's predecessor, which accompanied me up and down the east coast of America


2002 - One of the first pictures of the hat in a crew shot from the stage productions at Camp Kinder Ring

 
2003 - Taking it easy on a golf cart at Camp Kinder Ring and being borrowed by C3P0 in the Virgin Megastore in Times Square


2004 - On the Altiplano beween Arequipa and Puno in Peru

 
2004 - Looking out over Macchu Picchu and sitting atop a sand dune in Huacachina

 
2005 - 'Shooting the Freak' at Coney Island, NY and chilling in our convertible at Newport Beach, California

 
2006 - Enjoying a massive cake in South Africa and high in the Austrian Alps

 
2006/2007 - Enjoying a stein in the Hofbrauhaus in Munich and at Africa's largest tannery in Fez, Morocco