I can’t wait to get out of Reno. It’s my second day of driving and it would sure be nice to see some green and experience some cooler weather.
Money Grows On Trees
Child: Mom, can I have a new bicycle?
Mother: Money doesn’t grow on trees.
Many of us are familiar with that saying. But has anyone heard that shoes really do grow on trees?
On my way towards Susanville, just outside of Reno, I see the most fun sight – a tree full of shoes hanging from all the branches. It’s not just a couple of shoes, buts lots and lots of shoes.
I looked it up on the Web and found there’s more than one tree that grows shoes.
Bookofjoe writes:
RoadsideAmerican.com offers “A round-up on Shoe Trees, where hundreds of discarded sneakers and other footwear are tossed. The shoe tree blooms with polymer beauty.”
They note, “More have been sighted in Nordman, Idaho; Milltown, Indiana; Hodgdon, Maine; Atlanta and Owosso, Michigan; Lyndonville, New York; and elsewhere.”
You can see a guy named Frank standing next to the Shoe Tree in Reno, view and read more about Shoe Trees on RoadSideAmerica.com and read Charlie LeDuff’s New York Times article on BookofJoe’s blog.
