The Walkabout Company Blog

What's my Hat size, or Gee Ye Ole Walkabout Hat does not fit anymore !

Posted by Richard Christie on

Gee the Large is to big ! and the medium is to small ?  Have no fear here are a few tips when buying you next hat. This summer check out this amazing Stetson Soakable Cool Mesh hat from Walkabout.

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What is a " Walkabout " anyway ? Or better when will you be taking yours

Posted by Richard Christie on

" My whole life is, has, and will always be one continuous Walkabout. We all at some point will go on our own, you just don't know how, when or where, be it  physically, intellectually or emotionally, you will at some point go on your own Walkabout "

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Fly fishing the Colorado river headwaters & going the extra mile.

Posted by Richard Christie on

By then I could see all the fishermen (boats) were either leaving, or watching me like I was some kind of fool. Some kind of crazy person, waders, fly rod and all. I rose slowly and made one cast some 30 feet out where the water flow eased, and well the rest is history.

Tight lines and Fish hard.

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Jump forward & Walkabout is Born, 1992 another turn in the journey of life

Posted by Richard Christie on

Five of the 7th Cavalry's twelve companies were annihilated; Custer was killed, as were two of his brothers, a nephew, at Battle of the Little Bighorn, known to the LAKOTA and other Plains Indians as the Battle of the Greasy Grass and commonly referred to as Custer's Last Stand. The battle in 1876 was fought in the Banks of the Little Bighorn River.

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The Beginning

Posted by Richard Christie on

Son keep an eye out for those trees ahead, make sure you dont hit them ! " as we buzzed the tops at some 210 miles an hour. We all know trees dont move, or do they ? Dad had a good laugh as he pulled us up and away, Those trees were Giraffe and yes, they do move !

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