I bet you have learned a wealth of American slang from this forum. <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I'm a big fan of the saying "Learn from other people's mistakes, because you'll never live long enough to make them all yourself."

Even in survival, practical "hands-on" experience can lead you astray. As Laurence Gonzales said, often "experienced" simply means "someone who's gotten away with doing the wrong thing more often than you have. " (Quoted from memory)

It is probably true, though, that a lot of what gets written in "survival" manuals is put together by people who read it somewhere else and never actually verified it experimentally.

you're right ............ <img src="/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />

More specifically.. a lot of what is written in survival manuals is read in and reproduced from "FM21". <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> I have seen the same information reprinted so many times (often even verbatum) that I lost count a long time ago. Fortunatly it is good, solid infomation so it does me no harm to read it over and over since it helps to stick it in my long term memory. <img src="/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Sounds like historical recreationists.

Love those Authenticity Nazi's.

Rena

ok just a question because i dont know much about cody in general aside from his books that i plan to get.

but how can you realistically walk everywhere barefoot?

aside from the filth and various dangerous objects in the street waiting to cut the bottom of your feet or cause a nice infection or worse.

there has got to be some problem with hygene and general foot skin care from taking all that abuse.

Barefooting in general:

http://www.barefooters.org/

Barefoot hiking, specifically:

http://www.barefooters.org/hikers/

http://members.aol.com/bhthom/hikertxt.htm

Focusing on the natural history of humans, they have been walking around without footwear much longer than with footwear . . . and survived.

In his book he specifically mentions carrying Lanolin and Krazy Glue to fix the cracks in his feet.


Robert

Hey PL .. great links. I didn't know there were so many others out there like me. I guess I won't be doing much work today with all this interesting reading to do. I always thought I just had sort-of a "Buddha meets Huckleberry Finn" complex. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />