Special: The Shoe Saga

As some of my readers became aware a while back, it was not only myself and my associate Dan who were making this trip across America. We were accompanied by another pair, namely, a pair of dress shoes owned by another associate, Matt. Matt was about to get married, and before their knot was tied, so to speak, his shoes wanted to spend some time roaming the vast country, sowing their wild oats as it were. They took these photos, which were then shown at the wedding to Matt, who until that point had no idea where they had gone.

In New York, they got to climb the Brooklyn Bridge:



And look out at the view of the city over the East River:



They made friends with some of the other diverse shoes in the city, such as these Italians:



And these lovely shoes of the female persuasion:



In Ithaca, they got to pal around with Ezra Cornell's shoes:



And moon the Cornell admissions office:



Here they are at the top of Niagara Falls, considering going down in a shoebox. (They ultimately chickened out.)



At the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, they got to see what it's like to hang out in a realistic locker room:



Got to see Pat LaFontaine of their favorite team, the NY Islanders:



And touched the Stanley Cup:



Unfortunately, by the time they got to the Shoe Museum in Toronto it was closed:



But they did get to moon the admissions office at the University of Toronto:



At the Notre Dame campus, they admired Touchdown Jesus through the reflecting pool:



The admissions office there is fairly posh, but they did a quick moon and then got out of there:



In Chicago there were lots more friends to be made:



There were shoes from all throughout history and the world at the Field Museum:







And some feet that would have been hard to make shoes for:



Bowling in Chicago was fun, there were lots of shoes to meet, but they weren't allowed on the lane:



Back in middle America, they got to learn a little bit about where they came from:





But there was some eye candy there as well:





In the West they got to see the sights:



But the Wild West did have some appealing styles as well:



Yellowstone Park allowed them to get back to nature a little:



Though the wait for Old Faithful to erupt was a little annoying:



Here they were able to straddle the Continental Divide:



In Salt Lake City, they were impressed by the Mormon Tabernacle:



And even made friends with some nice young Mormons:



In Reno there were also impressive things to see, and do:



And they made some different kinds of friends:



By the time they got to California they were pretty hungry, and of course had to make a stop at the In-N-Out:



And they completed their journey by looking out over the Pacific Ocean:



So having satisfied their desire to roam free for a while, it was time to pack up and head home:



They got themselves cleaned up:



And joined their loving partners, with whom they would stay from then on:



The union of soles.