What happened to us?!

When we first hit the road in the early seventies, most of the backpacker generation dressed like this:

In fact Pen's first labour of love was to sew matching  psychedelic darts into our jeans. Now my shirts and pants, and those of most of the other old hippies out here look like this: 

I'm thinking it might be time to break free of the pack and do a spot of tie dyeing.

Just not sure how these new fangled "breathable" "wicking" "insect repelling" "quick drying" "secret pocketed" "sun blocking" synthetic outfits will react. 

I'll keep you posted!