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This Golden Goose HH is having trouble getting out of the Golden State or even out of the Northern CA area of the Golden State. Someone must have clipped his wings. We picked it up in the...

Heck, I would attempt a carving of a portion of the Sistine Chapel, if I got to do some beach-lounging as part of the deal! Lisascenic

I have new boxes to report: My Golden Gate box went MIA so I recarved (I think it's worse than my first...can that be possible? I'm blaming it on the fact that I think the eraser was old. Bet you're...

I was going to upload a few amusing photos of yours truly, carving a huge mound of styrofoam (and looking like I'm carving in a blizzard), but I noticed that Yahoo says we're almost at our limit for...

If you liked these, you really must get up to south Tahoe and Markleville and see ArtTrekker's artistry. Canyon Canoers and the Hope Valley fly, Trout and Fisherman in her Fishing the West...

In a message dated 9/2/2005 11:27:32 PM Pacific Daylight Time, lazar.bauer@earthlink.net writes: I think her stamps On the Gold Trail may be one of my favorite relief prints of all time. It makes...

Wanted to say thanks to Mim for planting a great new series--Before and After--at Grover Hot Springs. It's a kick! Markleeville is becoming a letterboxing destination! I think I'm leaving in a week...

Maybe some of you have already heard of this, but I learned a carving tip from one of the LbNY members while I was in NY this summer. Was it you, Lisascenic? You get some additional refinement of...

We were just informed by a friendly 'boxer that our little Bounce, Bounce box was found opened and its contents scattered. The finder put it back together and rehid it, but the logbook is missing....

Dear Northern CA Lber's and others, One of our local letterbox families (the Boxalots) is from LA. I know they have been on vacation in LA for the month of August and is/was due back the end of...

Ok, I know I should be thinking about Katrina and its aftermath, but I need to give it a rest and do something mindless. Well, not exactly mindless but I did escape reality via reading "Blink" by...

Hi, I'll be at one of the San Francisco airport hotels this weekend for a convention & am looking for some close boxes to grab. I've already found the clues for Anna & the Kids SFO, Siempre...

I, too, was up in the Hope Valley area this past week with my visitng in-laws. Going letterboxing with extended family is trying at best....especially when it takes 3 hours to hike two...

Two afternoons of 'boxing netted us 19 boxes in the Placerville and Lake Tahoe area. 13 of the boxes were by ArtTrekker whose carvings are well worth any drive! These boxes are alive, well and...

I wanted to let folks know that I've got two new boxes at the Morcom Rose Garden in Oakland. The boxes pay homage to Gertrude Stein, William Shakespeare and Paul in SF. How's that for a...

Much like Madeleine in Hitchcock's masterpiece, 'Vertigo', the Vertigo #1 letterbox has reappeared! For those of you unfamilar with this particular letterbox, here are some fun facts to know and...

Due to major construction which has now moved right to the bridge, I have temporarily removed the box for safe-keeping. The footbridge is undergoing repair, and the surrounding area turned into a...

Robb and I biked twenty miles on the San Francisco Bay Trail yesterday. He hid another box in his series, and I found the whole bunch. That boy has really taken diguising his boxes to a...

For those of you curious to know why I consider my Nepenthe letterbox significant, I've now posted the story on an accompanying web page: http://home.earthlink.net/~pgonyea/nepenthe2.htm I also...

I've received some requests to extend the date before Star-Crossed retires, so the new retirement date will be Sept. 1. Even though 1 box retires, I've planted 4 news ones, and a fun 5th box is on...

Hi All, The pix I took from the gabbering in Santa Rosa are up on Atlas Quest in the Toolbox, photo gallery. I haven't labeled anything yet...perhaps someday when I have some time...ha. At least they...

My mom just told me a story that came from her partner's brother, evidently a letterboxer! It led me to explore a bit about the "letterbox walks" on Ascension Island, in the Falklands. Anyone looking...

Well, the Valhalla letterboxes may not be homeless for long. I will try to meet with Cathy this week. A friend knows her and believes she is sympathetic and interested in artistic pursuits, so wish...

We have some pictures. Where should we post them? -Bonedoc [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

I took many pictures, but not digital. I'll see about scanning some and loading them to the photo files soon, I hope. ~nedgom