I love these. I initially bought them for a trip which involved a lot of driving, a week on a cruise, a lot of walking and adventuring along coastal areas, and trips through airplane security. This and a pair of very nice dress shoes were the only two shoes I brought, and they came through like a champ.Since these were my much about adventuring shoes, I certainly did get them filled with salt water, estuary salt silt muck (which smells delightfully sulphurous,) spill alcohol on them... puke on them after drinking too much alcohol, etc.They have been washed three times, two times on that trip and once. I have owned them for over a year at this point, and I'm buying a brown pair to compliment the grey pair I have now.I fully endorse them for light or moderate activity, and adore them as house and patio shoes.Now, the downsides. These are not hiking shoes. They already show signs of the unfair abuse that I put them through. They're more suited for cobblestones, patio wood, and nice flat cool pavement, rather than the blistering heat, jagged rocks, and broken glass I've tracked them over. They will not protect your toes if you drop something heavy on them.The ideal use for these are for light urban walking, walking about your home, walking soft green space trails, walking on beaches, or as nice comfy set of shoes if you spend a lot of time walking on hard and perfectly cared for flooring, such as in hospitals and areas like that.What really makes these shoes a keeper is that they are, in fact, easy to wash without causing the shoe to self destruct. I love shoes and have a great many pairs that I can't literally jump into a pool with, help drag a boat out into a pond while wearing, etc. Of those that have that ability, my choices are these shoes, light snorkeling shoes, and three pairs of Apocalypse Ready hiking shoes. The snorkel shoes are too thin for much of anything, and the hiking boots are a great work out for your legs, but not something you'd like to walk about a marketplace in.I would subtract a half point from these shoes for how easily the heel starts to separate from the upper in the back. When you take these off, don't use my bad habit of prying the shoes off with the opposite foot: this acerbates the heel separation issue. Use the pull ring, or tug them off with your hands.Be mindful of what you are buying here, and you'll enjoy your purchase.