Desert Feet
I had read a lot about deserts, watched movies on deserts, taught about deserts, so obviously I had this feeling that I had been to a desert, that I knew deserts. It wasn't until last week during a trip to the United Arab Emirates when we went on a Desert Safari when it actually dawned on me that that was my first time being in a desert. So much to unpack from actually being in the desert. My next few posts will explore different flashes of thoughts that came to me from my experience there. Today, I want to talk about desert feet. Before we began the journey, I sent a text to our guide asking what kinds of shoes to wear. We concluded it was better to wear our slides or sandals rather that our tennis or dress shoes. I understood that later as we got on the desert. Had I worn those, the dust from the desert would have at the least sentenced them to a great deal of washing to restore them. So the slides were just perfect. By the time we were done for the day...