calf-high

Updated: May 8, 2025

My own modest belongings rode more easily in a rucksack. A mile walk along an unused railroad, calf-high in jungle grass, brought us to a wooden bridge across the wide but shallow Suchiate, bounding Mexico on the south.

Harry Alverson Franck - Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras — Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond