West Coast Trip USA # 2

This TB is the second attempt, the first one was ript.

In mai 2010 my wife and I travelled through west USA. The mission of these Travel Bug is, to visit places as much as we did and then end in the Netherlands(Nieuwegein). Some photos with your own shoes and the clogs would be nice.

"Reenit"will place this TB somewere in a cache in Califonia

San Fancisco - Monterey - Santa Barbara - Rout 66 - Grand Canyon - Lake Powell - Zio National Park - Valley of Fire State Park - Hooverdam - Las Vegas - Death Valley - Sequoia National Park - Yosemite National Park -

In Mei 2010 heb ik samen met mijn vrouw een rondreis door West Amerika gemaakt. De missie van deze Travel Bug is om zoveel mogelijk plaatsen te bezoeken als wij toen gedaan hebben en daarna weer in Nederland (Nieuwegein) te eindigen. Foto's met je eigen schoenen en de klompjes is leuk.

Wooden shoes or clogs: although everyone knows what they are and what they look like, they are worn much less frequently nowadays than they used to be. In fact clogwearers have become an all but extinct species. Yet is it not so long ago that almost everybody owned a pair of clogs and used them every day. Consequently there were lots of clogmakers in those days, who all made their own models, often in a variety of colours and decorations. This immense diversity in clogs from the past now forms a valuable part of the cultural heritage of a people.

Wooden Shoes Museum "Wietzes Bros" was named after the two last clogmakers in Eelde, Elso Wietzes (1916 - 1977) and Egbert Wietzes (1925 - 1988). They were not only very able makers of clogs for daily use, but also collected clogs from many different countries.

After Egbert's demise the Foundation Wooden Shoes Museum "Wietzes Bros" takes over the management of the collection of clogs and the clogmaking tools. The collection of Mr H.P. Bongers from Enschede is added to the collection of the Wietzes brothers. Bongers was a teacher at the Technical College in Enschede. His collection included clogs and unique clogmaking tools from Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France and Spain. In 2002 this whole collection becomes the property of the Museum.

http://www.klompenmuseum.nl