If one travels down Highway 50 in Nevada, the "Loneliest Road in America", one will encounter the Shoe Tree. Purportedly, during a newlywed love spat, a husband tossed his wife's shoes into a tree and then drove away leaving his wife in the dust. The couple were able to patch up there disagreement, but the shoe tree lived on as a memorial to lonely roads the the relationship strain they produce. Or so the story goes. Travelers by still stop to admire and contribute footwear to this towering bedecked cottonwood in the Nevada desert.
(7.14.10) The Shoe Tree
If one travels down Highway 50 in Nevada, the "Loneliest Road in America", one will encounter the Shoe Tree. Purportedly, during a newlywed love spat, a husband tossed his wife's shoes into a tree and then drove away leaving his wife in the dust. The couple were able to patch up there disagreement, but the shoe tree lived on as a memorial to lonely roads the the relationship strain they produce. Or so the story goes. Travelers by still stop to admire and contribute footwear to this towering bedecked cottonwood in the Nevada desert.
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