i love my vivobarefoots but they phased out teh nice little leather shoes made in africa which i was lucky to get one, i like those shoes although i wish they made a 9" tall boot version, the sole print was cool, like one of those maps of altitude over an area, i forget the name of that.

i got some "vegan" tall ones called ESC2 but honestly, this vegan shit with shoes is a fucking travesty, there is no better material for shoes than leather, ideally double layer kangaroo, but double layer goat would be ok, cowhide is too thick for shoes, though it probably makes good natural soles, instead of using plastic/rubber polyurethane shit.

i don't feel like i'm gonna have the shoes i really want until i make my own out of double layer roo with a CNC carved last based on a 3d scan of my own feet. maybe that's something i will get into while i'm stuck here in this nice little cottage next to the ocean, before i get my boat mission together.