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?
Posted in Barefoot, El Malpais, Hiking, Out West on 9:07 am, August 30, 2016| Leave a Comment »
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?
Posted in Barefoot, Comics on 9:37 am, August 27, 2016| Leave a Comment »
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.
Trust him! He’ll be fine!
(Except for maybe his teacher and school administrators.)
Posted in Barefoot, El Malpais, Hiking, Out West on 9:29 am, August 25, 2016| Leave a Comment »
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.
Posted in Barefoot, El Malpais, Hiking, Out West on 9:08 am, August 23, 2016| 1 Comment »
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.
Posted in Barefoot, Comics on 9:30 am, August 20, 2016| 4 Comments »
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.
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.
Posted in Barefoot, Comics on 9:24 am, August 13, 2016| 2 Comments »
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.
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.)
Posted in Barefoot, Comics on 12:10 pm, August 6, 2016| 3 Comments »
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.
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