I originally purchased the Ghost Max shoes (the blue/yellow Damon Brown special edition) to be my primary walking shoes this fall as I prepared for a week-long tour in southern Germany. After walking a couple of miles a day in them at home on regular pavement/sidewalks, I made a last-minute call to take them with me as my primary walking shoes for the trip. I walked around 5 miles every day on old, uneven cobblestone streets, bricks, stonework, etc., and never once felt unstable or off balance. Paired with merino wool socks, my feet never got cold despite the 3-10C/30-40F degree, rainy and windy weather. And though my fifty-something-year-old hips and knees may have hurt at the end of the day from all the walking/climbing, my feet never did! Perfect touring shoes! I did replace the regular shoes laces with elastic laces (with a slider for adjusting) to make them easy off/on at the airport, and those worked well for all the walking, too.
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