Stoned near Machiasport, Maine

Fallen in the stones and gravel beside the road, this unmarked grey athletic shoe (size 8) waits with outstretched laces . . .

Joking Around Near Jonesport, Maine

This rubber boot may be totally lost, but it has been nailed high on a power pole near Jonesport, Maine - for everyone to see as they drive by.

Owl Head, Maine

Location: Found on the working fishing dock in Owl Head, Maine - a man's black (right) leather 'World Industries' brand lost sole . . . scuffed and torn up inside, sitting atop a rusty, bent and smelly lobster cage.

Ditched on the Dock - Rockport, MA

Location: Wet and sloppy in the rain, this men's Merrell leather loafer, was muddy and marooned on the picturesque dock in Rockport (Cape Ann), Mass.

Crystal Falls, Michigan

Totally trashed, left on the side of Route 141 near Crystal Falls, Michigan. No sign of any other debris - just this right "Cabela's - Worlds Foremost Outfitter Since 1961". Men's size 10, leather, dirty and really beaten up.

Crushed Cleats near Mt Rushmore, SD

Location: On route #244 in South Dakota's Black Hills, nearly at Mt. Rushmore - this badly worn baseball? cleat athletic shoe (with several cleats missing), was wrapped with frayed laces. A left, Alpha brand - badly worn out and finished.

Left On a Rock in North Bend, WA

Location: Abandoned down by the railroad tracks, across the street from the RR museum - with no laces - a "Skechers, leather uppers". The size tag had been cut out and this old sole was well worn around the ankle edges. A left.

Gibson's Landing B.C. Canada

Location: Early in the morning down at the boat docks, perched on a grassy tree stump just above the high tide line, a pink rubber clog waits patiently, forgotten . . . for an owner to return and be barefoot no longer. Ladies size #3/made in China.

Leading the Ferry

Location: (Can you see it?) On the Canadian ferry across Horseshoe Bay in British Columbia, a very lost blue sole made the 40 minute passage on the car deck outside the passenger gates.

Baby Blue in Bellingham (WA)

Location: Walking through the Farmer's Market in downtown Bellingham, a single powder blue toddler size Keen sandal waited alone in the aisle between the vegetable stalls.

Shabby at Lake Shasta

Location: Lake Shasta, CA. I found this lost sole (a blue flip flop), horribly dried and cracked - high above the present water line that is now currently 137 ft below crest. Marinas have moved, boat rentals have gone out of business. Lake Shasta is rimmed with old exposed mud. Gone are the forests of trees that dipped into the water's edge.

Posted in San Diego

Location: A nearly new brown rubber boot ("Made in Canada" printed around a maple leaf logo on the arch), found at Mission Bay impaled on a long 2X4. Size 10.

Teva of the Lake

Location: found floating at dawn at the edge of beautiful Lake Crescent on the Olympic peninsula of Washington - a men's black, right Teva brand sandal

Revival Stars in Washington

Location: Glenwood, Washington - in farm country north of the Royal Gorge

Condition: Faded tired stars on faux black suede, the DVS Shoe Co. boasting 'style: Revival Star!' Fabrique en Chine - USA women's size 6

A Taos Trio

Location: on a narrow farm road about 1/2 mile from the center of Taos, New Mexico

Condition: Touching toes and nailed to adjoining fence posts, one right red Fila brand sneaker and one left blue Fila brand sneaker - both size 9 - dusty, cracked and weathered.


Location: And nailed two posts away, perhaps starting a Fence-of-Soles . . .

Condition: A single 'Brooks hs.ft' athletic shoe, size 10 - showing wear and weather.

Lost in Loreto

Location: downtown Loreto in Baja Sur, Mexico

Condition: Tangled, dirty, frayed and full of spider webs - a men's "ae" brand athletic shoe

Pray for Me at San Francisco Javier Mission

Location: 22 miles into the steep rugged mountains behind Loreto, Baja, Mexico - one of the first California missions finished in 1759. The journey up the steep, narrow, unpaved and unbarricaded rocky road passed too many Mexican death shrines with rusted auto hulks, hundreds of feet below.

Condition: A ladies left thong sandal with brown decorative beading - perhaps ignored and abandoned while the owner prayed for a safe journey back down the treacherous winding road.

Pressed Pink

Location: the Long's Drugs parking lot, Martinez, California

Condition: A toddler's soft leather slipper, separated from its owner (luckily) - apparently run over in the parking lot, flattened hard to less than a half inch . . . scuffed toe with a white kitty face on top and soft elastic to hold around the heel.

Trashed in Texas

Location: Jason Houston found this pathetically dismantled lost sole in Galveston, Texas - hanging out near a fishing pier. He adds, "Lots of other stuff also washed up on the beach
in that whole area."

Highly Posted and Recorded in AZ

Location: On Alamo Rd. at Jupiter Dr. (elevation: 2909 ft), South off I-40 in Mojave County, AZ. (lat: 34d 41' 13"N - long: 113d 54' 43" W)

Condition: A men's left Wellington style boot, nailed through the toe box to the top of a desert fence post. Highly posted recently, the leather is smooth and non weathered.

At the Salton Sea, CA

Location: At the Salton Sea, on the dried muddy shore of the Red Hill Marina.

Condition: Only the bottom of a turquoise sandal remains, twisted and bent in the heat just as the dying talapia did, struggling for their last breath in the oxygen poor/algae rich murky waters of the Salton Sea.

A Desert Death

Location: Dumped or lost on the sands of Ocotillo in the Anza Borrego desert.

Condition: Arid and barren - no water and apparently without life. A woman's frayed white tennis shoe bakes relentlessly, cracks apart on the sole line and bleaches chalky bone white.

Perdido Zapato

Location: Betty Clark just finished an awesome drive from the San Francisco bay area to the tip of Baja and back. She found this perdido zapato "on the Sea of Cortez beach".

Condiditon: She had a wonderful time and added, "It just seemed happy to be there."

Crapped Out

Location: Luckless with a pair of fives and a pair of deuces on its heel, left in the mud beside Old Hiway 80 in Flinn Springs near San Diego

Condition: A Globe brand name, fake black suede - muddy and wet with new fat laces tied and a lone drop of water sliding off the tip of a lace.