Letterboxing USA - Yahoo Groups Archive

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October 2005

Lyon, France Letterboxing?

Started by hopebasset (gretchenandjohn@hotmail.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2005-10-27 | Last message: 2005-10-27
Hello! My Mom and I are heading to Lyon for a trip and wondering if anyone knew of WOM letterboxes in the area. I have checked the AtlasQuest boxes and several seem to be missing or near...

Huge Thank Yous from the organizers of Frightnight @ the Fort....Kittery, ME

Started by mainekokopellian (mainekokopellian@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2005-10-27 | Last message: 2005-10-29
Thank you one & all for taking time to attend our event...! we loved meeting everyone & hope you guys had as much fun as we did ( we can say that now :) Despite the colder weather, many from this...

Texas? Never Fails!

Started by Judy B (sowbiz@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-10-26
Went back and searched on "letterboxing" and more sites popped (including TX) than when I used "letterbox" - go figure. Still anyone in the D-FW area that will be hanging in there around Xmas -...

Texas?

Started by Judy B (sowbiz@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-10-26
I'm planning my Dec travel schedule and was considering a trip to Grapevine TX to visit a noxer. I thought there was previously a TX LB yahoo list -- but can't locate? Was it my imagination or...

The Boo Boo Box Rises From the Ashes (X-post)

Started by Warrior Woman (warrioringilead@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-10-26
The Boo Boo Box has been resurrected! I am hoping to get it out in circulation again in another week. *PLEASE NOTE* that the method by which you may receive the Boo Boo Box has changed. Check...

New South-Eastern Michigan Box Placed

Started by C&K (pedersenteevens@cablespeed.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-10-26
Hi Michigan LbNA friends, Announcing a new letterbox just placed in Oakland County, Michigan I'm real excited to get some feedback from anyone who hunts it down because I'll be monitoring how the...

virtual boxing

Started by Sandra (studiousmom@sbcglobal.net) | 5 messages | First message: 2005-10-26 | Last message: 2005-10-28
I'm interested in doing some virtual letterboxing. Where can I find a database of clues? The link on LbNA isn't working. TIA, stargazer

Save the Date! Nashville Gather on December 3

Started by she_who_plants (she_who_plants@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-10-25
Plans are shaping up for Saturday, December 3. This first-ever Nashville letterboxing gather is being planned in the hectic and festive environs of the Grand Ol Opry, Opryland Hotel, and Opry Mills...

Prepare! For your time will come!

Started by Tom Noone (mntnlover@hotmail.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-10-25
Gather your possessions, my pilgrims. Bring sustenance to share with your fellow seekers. We shall meet four and a half hours after the sun rises to repent and embrace the way of the stamp. Our...

new MYSTERY

Started by mountainkin1 (featherfarm@msn.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-10-24
I planted my very first mystery box over the weekend. should be fun to see how many people hunt this one out. the box is called MYSTERY HIDES and is listed at LbNa and atlas quest. clues are found...

JEN Barnraising Report

Started by Barefoot Lucy (barefootlucy@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-10-24
Fresh in from Bardwell Lake. Nice little park - nothing like a state park, but quiet and secluded, and apparently the staff there considers it to be a pretty exclusive resort-type place - you gotta...

A bit of concern/ NH flooding

Started by (Bzbumble@aol.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2005-10-24 | Last message: 2005-10-24
NH letterboxes. I have been out a bit & I know my Surry Dam Letterbox is about 20-30 feet under water currently the entire beach area is submerged & considering the items washed down by the...

LBMA Tee Shirt Questions

Started by Hikers_n_ Hounds (hikers_n_hounds@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-10-24
Greetings fellow boxers, I am getting a lot of the same sort of questions regarding the LBMA T-shirts that I am selling so I figured I'd shoot a quick note to clear up any confusion. Images and...

Why is everyone afraid of snakes?

Started by J. BRIDGMAN (jmbridgman@snet.net) | 6 messages | First message: 2005-10-23 | Last message: 2005-10-25
I haven't had many encounters with snakes except harmless garter snakes but I was taught that poisonous snakes have a triangular-shaped head while non-poisonous snakes have an elongated or...

A bit of concern!

Started by gingerbreadjunk (gingerbreadjunk@yahoo.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2005-10-23 | Last message: 2005-10-24
Unforunately, living in new hampshire, for the past several weeks, it as rained and it has poured. my efforts to letterbox has been hampered by swollen water ways and flooded paths. my concern lies...

Buh Buh Buh Bennie is alive! ( cross post from LBNY)

Started by Cyndie (lockwench@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-10-23
I am sooooo thrilled as I just received an email from a geocacher that he found my missing Buh-Buh-Buh Bennie box. This box went missing RIGHT after I hid it and I was so bummed as it was such a cool...

Kittery Halloween LB event!!!

Started by Michelle & Stacey (chellenjo@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-10-22
I just wanted to say as a newbie to letterboxing... this was my first event and I enjoyed it immensly!!! I also want to add it was only my second encounter with other boxers and everyone was so...

why are people afraid of snakes

Started by Deborah (byhisgrace@shaw.ca) | 1 message | First message: 2005-10-21
ha ha tee hee, this is funny, now no one go and get 'snakey' with this thread okay? I am not afraid of snakes, but I am wary of poisonous ones (now how can you tell I am Canadian?) > >

Unfortunate news

Started by sandra listorti (domedreamer@sbcglobal.net) | 1 message | First message: 2005-10-21
To anyone who has been so unfortunate to have experienced A Series of Unfortunate Letterboxes, I must, with Vexing, Forlorn Dismay inform you that, as Very Faithfully Denoted by Lemony Snicket,...

Why are people so afraid of snakes?

Started by marthastewartletterboxer (nishakamada@yahoo.com) | 13 messages | First message: 2005-10-21 | Last message: 2005-10-22
> Why would anyone want to mess with any snake regardless of it's > coloring? Just leave it be, unless it has 2 inch fangs imbedded into > your leg. Not quite sure why snakes have such a bad rap....

changing personal stamps?

Started by sandramilfeld (studiousmom@sbcglobal.net) | 4 messages | First message: 2005-10-21 | Last message: 2005-10-21
When I started letterboxing a couple of years ago, I was gung-ho and in a hurry to get going. So I carved out a personal stamp real quick. Now I'm not satisfied with it. I know I can do better,...

Please send back - this is cute!!

Started by (LovePat258@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-10-21
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Red and Black? Red and Yellow?

Started by Barefoot Lucy (barefootlucy@yahoo.com) | 6 messages | First message: 2005-10-20 | Last message: 2005-10-21
I always heard Red and Yellow kills a fellow. Red and Black - bite him back. And when I think about biting a snake, I wonder if he tastes like chicken, and then I think I'm too chicken to find out,...

Adopting a letterbox Re: [LbNA] Ball's Bluff Trilogy Series...abandonded?

Started by ontario_cacher (ontario_cacher@yahoo.ca) | 1 message | First message: 2005-10-20
I can understand the desire to adopt rather than simply replace the logbook. By adopting a box the adopter becomes the contact person. For me (I've placed 23 LBs) feedback is important. It helps me...

APB/ATTN: SaDoughnut Girl

Started by Warrior Woman (warrioringilead@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2005-10-20
Hey SaDoughnut Girl! Please contact me offline for some important information! (Note to anyone else reading this post - if you can give me a lead on how to reach SaDoughnut Girl, please send me an...