I walked barefoot often  before starting the trip while gardening and walking in the forest. when I finally made it to Pucallpa and took part in a number of Ayahuasca ceremonies, I hadn't left the property where I was staying in over 2 weeks and had never put on shoes once. I decided to go to the market and meditate without shoes and continued barefoot without even really thinking anything of it for a month. when I decided I was going to leave Pucallpa and hitchhike all the way to Cusco in June 2020, I told myself I might as well do it barefoot cause the past month had been so easy. I ended up making it to Nazca and on the night of the full moon eclipse July 4, 2020 I used sandals to walk through the thorny deserts in the dark during a San Pedro experience. July 5th I took off the sandals and continued the barefoot trip making it all the way to Puno, Arequipa, back up to Iquitos before putting shoes back on for the first time on December 28, 2021 in Abancay.