Lova da Lava

My hike for August 10 was a visit to Lava Falls. This is a 1.2 mile loop into the lava beds at El Malpais.

Was I going to do it barefoot? What do you think?

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Saturday Comic

I recently found the (pretty new) comic strip Wallace the Brave. Wallace is a kid who lives in the New England shore town of Snug Harbor. He’s another kid who pretty much goes barefoot all summer.

(Also see here and here for previous entries.)

In this strip from July 1, 2015, it’s time to go back to school.

Wallace the Brave, July 1, 2015

Trust him! He’ll be fine!

(Except for maybe his teacher and school administrators.)

 

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Nice and Skeen

I’m continuing to write about my trip Out West. Yesterday, I arrived at El Malpais and hiked the Sandstone Bluffs. I stayed at the (free) Joe Skeen Campground. The next day, Wednesday, August 10, I started just by exploring the area around the campground.

That was great just by itself.

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Bluffing Through Sandstone

I am off again on a trip Out West. I left early Monday, August 8 and arrived at my first destination Tuesday around noon.

Welcome to El Malpais.

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Saturday Comic

We’re getting close to back-to-school time. So here’s a comic from August 30, 1941. It’s from Out Our Way by J. R. Williams.

Out Our Way, August 30, 1941

This is a standard trope for comics from this time: going barefoot makes your feet bigger. You don’t suppose that the reason kids’ shoes don’t fit in the fall is because they just spent the last three months growing? (You know, like kids do?)

And thus are pernicious barefoot myths started.

 

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Saturday Comic

Our comic for today comes from September 17, 1946 (and repeated on July 14, 1963). It’s from Out Our Way by J. R. Williams.

Out Our Way, September 17, 1946

You know, there are some people who keep using their feet bare, and those feet are in shape. And then there are the shoddies who let their feet atrophy, and then think going barefoot is a miserable experience. (It’s kind of like people who never exercise who think stairs are torture because they always use elevators.)

 

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Saturday Comic

Red and Rover is always a fun comic strip in the summer, since it portrays Red as a child of the 1960s, when kids spent much of their time barefoot.

The joke here isn’t about bare feet, but the strip shows how nonchalantly bare feet were accepted.

Red and Rover, July 25, 2016

 

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