as promised, mycoskie returned to argentina in october 2006 with two dozen volunteers to give away 10,000 pairs of shoes along 2,200 miles of countryside. mycoskie wryly explained what he learned from this experience, "i always thought that i'd spend the first half of my life making money and the second half giving it away. i never thought i could do goth at the same time," the next year, toms shoe gave away 50,000 pairs of shoes in "shoe drops" to children in argentina plus shoe drops to south africa. more countries were added to the list over the next three years.