Edwird
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ORIGINAL: Edwird Just to slip into "no shoes" part of it . . . When I was just turned 17, I hitch-hiked from N Carolina to California and back with never putting on shoes. A three week episode. In fact I went the whole summer with out ever wearing even sandals. Nothing on the feet, at all. Aside from saving up $1,200 so I didn't have to work all summer, I still can't figure out how I did that. Wow, that's impressive. I'd love to do that. That was long ago. With out bothering to look it up, that's probably at least $3,000-5,000 nowadays. But I worked for it. Min wage was $1.35, I'm embarrassed to say, and I was of such mind that quitting my paper route was the end of my ties to the rest of the world. I blew five years of adolescent labor (which I saved every penny of to that point) on one venture, without a second thought. But you can bet that we would have had a good time kicking sand at each other in the Northern Nevada night desert, because it's so cold at night in the desert, and we have to keep warm. I met a guy who claimed he never wore shoes even on a plane flight, but that was before 9/11. Forget that now. I have found a few places to walk where I don't have to worry about others in the daytime. If you want to be in touch with the earth, it can only be done by bare feet to ground, all the 'ouches!' and 'ooches!' notwithstanding. I'm not going to argue that the world has gone to crap because we can't hitch-hike anymore. I just caught the tail end of that. But in the summer time, "don't make me put on them blue suede shoes." Believe it, we would have had a great time as kids, especially if you lived in Eastern NC at the time.
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