Letterboxing USA - Yahoo Groups Archive

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August 2004

Squam River Covered Bridge Letterbox-NH

Started by PaulandJayme (paulandjayme.duggan@verizon.net) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-10
Just wanted to let everyone know that we update the directions to the Squam River Covered Bridge LB. We had gotten a couple emails suggesting that it was MIA. We checked tonight and it is still...

ME Lamoine State Park

Started by (StDebb@aol.com) | 11 messages | First message: 2004-08-10 | Last message: 2004-08-11
Hey, I was just down in the letterboxing basement, looking for something else, and I noticed this box has been archived. I can tell you, it's alive and well and right where it's supposed to be,...

IN: I-80 boxes

Started by Armadillo Jo (jes7o@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-10
The following boxes are within 5 miles of the Indiana Toll Road: A Hard Scrabble (Exit 49) Hunt for Limpids (between exits 49 and 72) Lucky Shamrock Grapes and a Garden Birds of a Feather (in same...

NH boxing "Little Dragonfly" correction

Started by Katie Lennon (katiekkat74@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-10
"Little Dragonfly", it is a microbox, so no stamp or ink, No stamp? I'm confused...what do people do when they find your microbox? So my apologies, I was very tired when writing this, what I meant...

CNN - Mark in GA

Started by psycomommy2003 (ktborrelli@hotmail.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2004-08-10 | Last message: 2004-08-11
In reference to your past post regarding CNN, will there be a sign? Something cataclysmic? I can only hope. The posts on this list have been downright boring. Psychomom

Thumbin' Critters Finish Line Box placed in NYC

Started by Q (puppygirl13@sbcglobal.net) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-10
The Halloween Adventure letterbox was placed on 8/8/04 in Manhattan and the clues were posted on LBNA today. As some of you may know, this is the finish line for the Thumbin' Critters hitchhiker...

Question about Family/Team Stamps in Dartmoor

Started by Mark Pepe (mjpepe1@comcast.net) | 3 messages | First message: 2004-08-10 | Last message: 2004-08-11
Hi boxers: Our time to depart is drawing near - 5 weeks from Friday and the troups are getting antsy! They've started talking about food and British slang and the like - plus - we just drew for...

USA box count tops 10,000!

Started by Erin Boucher (Sailor_Mystique@hotmail.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-08-10 | Last message: 2004-08-11
As of July 31st, the LBNA box count for the United States topped 10,000. International letterboxes were not included. When included, the 10,000 box mark was reached around July 24th or so. Thanks...

Cape Henlopen boxes

Started by MaryAnn Lockard (mizscarlet731@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-10
My son and I went hiking at Cape Henlopen this past Friday. We found the Lighthouse series all in good shape. When I got back to the car I found the bag for the log book of #4 in my back pack! I'm...

I-80 road trip LB suggestions?

Started by hodsthorn (hodsthorn@hotmail.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-08-10 | Last message: 2004-08-10
Hi, everyone. I'm going to be on a road trip next week, and in the course of my travels I'm going to be passing through a handful of states on my way home. I'd like to make the trip a letterboxing...

My daughter is now tick free

Started by Du and Vicki Diesing (dvdiesing@yahoo.com) | 4 messages | First message: 2004-08-10 | Last message: 2004-08-11
Thanks so much for all the advice. I will start using DEET bugspray on all of us. We actually did put some kind of repellant on us (don't have it in front of me, so can't remember what it...

? about Ct. Gather / 4-H / Be crowned King or Queen

Started by (ctferret@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-08-10 | Last message: 2004-08-11
I was wondering if by showing proof of letterboxing we are then given the clues for the boxes or are we supposed to get them on the web? Christi Wethersfield [Non-text portions of this message...

Kids and DEET

Started by Pam Kleingers (pam@kleingers.net) | 4 messages | First message: 2004-08-10 | Last message: 2004-08-11
I'm just worried about putting > DEET on my daughter. Believe me, I understand this--I tend to be a very cautious medical consumer; I selectively vaccinate, use homeopathic in place...

The heat was TICK REPELANT QUESTION!!

Started by Pam Kleingers (pam@kleingers.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-08-10 | Last message: 2004-08-10
I hear ya! I have done minimal boxing this summer due to the heat--and it has not been "bad" for SW OH at all, lol. Anyhow, the Tai Chi pants are very light weight, that is why I went with...

Ogunquit ME Aug 27th weekend

Started by heylari (heylari@excite.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-10
Hi All - We are going to Ogunquit ME at the end of this month and wonder if anyone reccomends any specific letterboxes in that area? I will check the various clues at different websites, but...

office letterboxes?

Started by genealogy_va (genealogy_va@yahoo.com) | 8 messages | First message: 2004-08-10 | Last message: 2004-08-11
Hello, I've mostly lurked for awhile, and hadn't seen this addressed. Does anyone keep a letterbox at work (at their cube or in an office)? My office is fairly quiet, and it occured to me that the...

1st Lbxes found & TICK REPELLANT QUESTION!!

Started by ruby (celticlions@comcast.net) | 4 messages | First message: 2004-08-10 | Last message: 2004-08-10
Vicki asked: < yourselves and on the wee ones that like to ramble in the brush? :) And a more sensitive question...how do you protect bare skin when nature calls?>> This is a timely question for us...

1st Lbxes found & TICK REPELANT QUESTION!!

Started by Du & Vicki Diesing (dvdiesing@yahoo.com) | 14 messages | First message: 2004-08-10 | Last message: 2004-08-14
Hello to all! I ran across letterboxing while researching our upcoming trip to New England this fall (actually it was on a Connecticut website...I read the string of hilarious posts about CT being a...

Underwater Letterboxes

Started by Lisa (limurme@yahoo.com) | 10 messages | First message: 2004-08-10 | Last message: 2004-08-14
I have been a little obsessed with creating an underwater letterbox. Has anyone ever attempted one of these or come across one of these? I am trying to do it with the least amount of "trash", and the...

Letter from Geocacher - AG CA box

Started by Sir Balthazar (neovolatile@yahoo.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2004-08-10 | Last message: 2004-08-10
I got this from a Geocacher today: Message: While geocaching recently I came across a letterbox in Arroyo Grande. Being new to geocaching, I didn't realize this was an entirely different game. The...

Ocean City NJ area letterboxes

Started by Anna Lisa Yoder (annalisa@fast.net) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-10
Do any of you Garden-Staters know which, if any, letterboxes are close to Ocean City? Given the driving times peculiar to the coastal regions, it's hard to tell by the clues which are the closest. ...

NH boxes

Started by Katie Lennon (katiekkat74@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-08-09 | Last message: 2004-08-10
wow, you must have been right behind us, as we found three of the four you mentioned this weekend too, found Squam Lake Bridge Blair Bridge Pemi Trail and Chamberlain-Reynolds Memorial Forest...

All of this publicity....

Started by playschoolteach (playschoolteach@yahoo.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2004-08-10 | Last message: 2004-08-10
I seem to be turning into one giant public safety announcement.... (: We've all been talking a lot lately about the loss or destruction of boxes due to all of the newfound publicity. Rightfully...

Upstate N.Y. letterboxes?

Started by rospa10 (wilmes2@mindspring.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-08-10
We'll be camping/canoeing near Indian Lake next week. Per chance, does anyone know of letterboxes in that general vicinity? Perhaps there is a pleasant park or two we could stop at on our way there...

Virginia Letterboxers - Found Journal

Started by (kauket@yahoo.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2004-08-10 | Last message: 2004-08-10
I posted once about a letterboxer's journal that I found in Loudoun County, but I figured I'd post again just in case the first post got lost in the mass. :) I found a stamp journal in Northern...