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."