A question for those who have resorted to wearing to wearing footwear again

I know it's only November, but for those of you who have resorted to wearing shoes for the winter-are any of you counting down the days till spring comes and you can disgard the shoes for another season? May is six months away and I'm allready looking forward to it with great optism I'm starting to plan my 2005 resolutions now and first on the list is no shoes after the beginning of May! I've been a member of the thirty-something movement for a while now and there is no reason for me to feel uncomfortable about being barefoot in public

 

... I still do a lot of my shopping, walking the dog and so on barefoot, or wearing flip-flops. Hate socks & shoes! :$

 

I'm lucky. I live in Florida and as cold as it gets in winter it is never so cold that I can't stay barefoot. It doesn't get much lower than the low 50s or high 40s here in West Palm Beach. The ground gets cold some nights in midwinter, but I just wear long sleeves and maybe switch from shorts to pants.

When I visited family in NY at the end of winter in early 2003, I had to wear shoes around town. I NEVER drive with shoes on, though, so it was always, 'put em on to go out, take em off to drive, put em on again to go out." ugh. But that's the worst of it for me, and I don't go up there very often.

But you should try skydiving from 14,000 feet barefoot! Woooo! Talk about CHILLY! You lose 2 degrees F. for every thousand feet you climb. Start at 70 on the ground, go to 14,000 feet, and it's now 42 degrees out with 120 mph wind passing your body! Yeah, cold! Normally if you freefall down to 5,000 to open your parachute, it's not so bad 'cause it's around a minute long. But if you do a "hop-and-pop" at 14,000 feet and you are under canopy by 13,000, you have a long ride back to the ground and for the first 5,000 feet or so your hands and feet get chillllllyyyyy!

But I'm hard-core, man. I will be skydiving all through the winter barefoot. Hey, I did it last winter, why not this one?

-Jeffrey