@artemis1886, and all...Glad you enjoyed the beach walking, but it's really difficult for those of us with any movement or muscle issues. With peripheral neuropathy, numbness, cramping, and pain are fairly normal and often. I can't walk on the sandy beach much anymore, nor even barefooted since it negatively affects my feet, legs, and back causing pain and cramping. I need some cushiony support all the time.

Even in the house, I don't go barefoot which is sad as I have always been a barefoot kind of gal...lived most of my 76 years in the Southern States with warmer climates, and always barefoot in the house.

Now, I have found the perfect indoor slipper for me with my feet/limb issues. Smoothies. They are ballerina-type shoes, flat, with leather bottoms that don't slip, stretchy so they stay on, but my toes and feet move and I can 'feel' the floor as much as possible, moving my toes to help with my balance and walking. Slip-on slippers slip on and then slip off, and I trip or fall. Can't lift my feet and curl my toes to walk well or walk upstairs.

These Smoothies also come in wonderfully fun sequins in wild colors...I have red, silver, gold, black and purple! Love them. My feet and toes move and get some exercise without too much-required work to walk. The soft leather bottoms are wonderful for the inside.

On the sandy beach, I can walk barefoot in the water for short distances, but it's extremely taxing and would surely cause an increase in pain and lower back pain. It's a lot of work walking in the sand. And the water from the ocean makes the sand run out from under your feet making you have to work to stand up! Great exercise if you want and can tolerate it, but not for these limitations...better to wear some kind of shoe on the sand if you plan to walk much.

Yes, Florida is humid. We're Semi-tropical, that's why it's so beautiful and lush and green and flowering year-round. At my age, I enjoy the A.C. so during our summers stay pretty much inside. All our cars have A.C. as do our houses. Some winters, I use the A.C. most of the time, not the heat. Just in Dec/Jan/Feb do I usually run the heat... But, most folks do acclimate themselves to this lifestyle, with no heavy sweaters or heavy wool/fluff jackets generally. Boots we wear for style or rain. I love the simplicity of life here, must have the sun every day or I begin to wilt! It gives me an uplifted feeling inside. I awake each morning with my drapes open, looking outside at the morning light and sun into the lovely, huge, 150+-year-old live oak trees. It's truly glorious. In past decades, we've had a touch of snow or ice, but nothing recently, although last winter was colder than usual.

Anyway, my slip-on skimmer Sketchers are what get me to and fro in comfort. With a touch of style! Blessings in Dallas. I shouldn't think Dallas would be less expensive than Florida, at least in the northern part of the state. South Florida beaches are indeed more expensive. But we have a pretty good economy rocking along. Elizabeth