Letterboxing USA - Yahoo Groups Archive

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May 2004

Erie PA letterbox back in action

Started by Camera Obscura (tim-scott@rocketmail.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-05-13 | Last message: 2004-05-13
"Somewhere in Erie" has been replaced and is waiting for visitors. I hope this incarnation fares better than the original, which lasted only four months. Geocachers are a common theme in this story...

Provincetown, MA. boxers

Started by poisoniivv (poisonivy@haveashittyday.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-05-13
Headed to Massachusetts to be married in P'Town May 17th. I'll be placing a Bert & Ernie box (together since 1969) and a Marcie and Peppermint Pattie box (together since 1968) to commemorate the...

patience--desert LBing

Started by cadenza74 (cadenza74@earthlink.net) | 3 messages | First message: 2004-05-13 | Last message: 2004-05-13
> while i am here i must say how much i admire you planters in the desert > regions. being from new england i can see thousands of thousands of places > to hide. recently i had the pleasure of...

patience

Started by uneksia (uneksia@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-05-12 | Last message: 2004-05-12
hello all i have been reading these posts for a couple of weeks now, had to write and say how much i enjoy it all. being a newbie (ouch it hurts to say that) i was not quite sure if i was following...

Virginia Beach visit

Started by Kristin (kc7777@comcast.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-05-12 | Last message: 2004-05-13
My family and I traveled from So. California to Virginia last week, and we found the Old Maid and Fort Story Lighthouse boxes in Virginia Beach. Many thanks to Lone Pony and Ladybug for guiding us...

MA: Petticoat Hill

Started by Rebecca Lay (rmlay@mindspring.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-05-12
Hi Everyone-- I've finally gotten around to doing some much-needed maintenance on the boxes at Petticoat Hill in Williamsburg. I had to rewrite the clues and rehide one of the boxes because the...

rest area boxes in CT, NY, PA, OH

Started by Sandra Leclerc (btoesatbarker@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-05-12
Hi everyone! I was wondering if I could get some help in finding out if there are any rest area boxes along I84 in CT, NY and PA, I80 in PA and OH, and I90 in NY, PA and OH. I am also interested in...

and speaking of dead lemurs

Started by Tammy, Cat, and Sarah (ADGLBNA@aol.com) | 6 messages | First message: 2004-05-12 | Last message: 2004-05-13
Two lemurs walked into a bar......the third one ducked. So I guess I only have 2 dead lemurs to beat today.....here we go Beating dead lemur 1: Home, home on the range Where the dead lemurs and...

Monsters Wanted! We need your letterboxes.

Started by Chuck & Molly (woodschuckstraub@yahoo.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2004-05-12 | Last message: 2004-05-16
We are looking for volunteers that want to make us a letterbox with a carving of a TV or Movie monster or science fiction character. We will plant the box for you. The box can be given to us or...

Help for MD I-95 Letterboxes Found --THANK YOU!

Started by cavaliermanorltrbx (cavaliermanorltrbx@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-05-12
Many, many thanks to everyone who volunteered! Pit Stop and Gas-n-Go will soon be replaced with new boxes -- just in time for summer travels! I'll keep the clues updated as to their status....

Mansfield Monster Mash Gathering Sat Oct 2

Started by Chuck & Molly (woodschuckstraub@yahoo.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2004-05-12 | Last message: 2004-05-15
The monsters are coming to Mansfield CT this October. A letterboxing gathering will be held Saturday October 2nd 2004 from 12 to 4 at the Lions Club Soccer fields pavilion off route 89 in Mansfield...

First Finds

Started by Jayme (jayme_duggan@yahoo.com) | 7 messages | First message: 2004-05-12 | Last message: 2005-12-13
What is the usual way of making a FF certificate that I've seen mentioned? We placed our first two letterboxes recently but didn't realize/remember to put something in it for FF'ers. We are about...

Wow

Started by (trishkri@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-05-12 | Last message: 2004-05-12
Why do you show your body? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

MD I-95 boxes need your help!

Started by cavaliermanorltrbx (cavaliermanorltrbx@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-05-12 | Last message: 2004-05-15
Hi all -- Last year we planted two boxes at the Maryland I-95 reststops: Gas-N-Go at Cheapeake House and Pit Stop at Maryland House. Since then, we've moved to CA so need to do a bit of...

Some Letterboxing Observations

Started by Danny McMillin (macdanny@mindspring.com) | 24 messages | First message: 2004-05-11 | Last message: 2004-05-14
Hello all, After a couple of months of letterboxing I have several observations. 1. I think the main reason letterboxes go missing is poor replacement by visitors. [This assumes a good hiding spot...

files

Started by Kathi (krank@ameritech.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-05-12 | Last message: 2004-05-11
Hi everyone...when I first joined and started perusing the files section, I had come across a document "About Letterboxing" (two column, landscape format) as well as "Kjetil Kjernsomo's illustrated...

P_O_E_T_S,,,,,,,,,W_A_L_K................(East of the Hudson)

Started by RUFIS T BUDSTER (budster2@juno.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-05-11
WoW ! Plenty of hits at this letterbox site and most from GeoCacher's who stumbled on to the spot.......... WoW! Lb Bulletin board at K_E_N_C_O has two new tags (Onteroa Lake and Seamons...

Clueless Dawg Hitchhiker Released in Allentown, PA Area

Started by rpboehme (rpboehme@yahoo.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2004-05-12 | Last message: 2004-05-13
The 'Clueless Dawg' Hitchhiker has been released in the Allentown, PA area. Think of the Clueless Dawg not as a normal Hitchhiker, but as a loyal `Traveling Companion.' That is, at least until he...

Final word on the May Day Gathering

Started by Mary & Paul The Map Lines (themaplines@snet.net) | 1 message | First message: 2004-05-11
To All of our Letterboxing Friends, Thank you for all of the kind words that have been said about us about the gathering. It is nice to hear all these great words but all of the credit should go to...

States in subject lines

Started by Anna Lisa Yoder (annalisa@fast.net) | 1 message | First message: 2004-05-11
Wow! Thanks everyone for so diligently including states in subject lines lately. Sure helps me out & hopefully lots of others. We may all end up knowing an incredible lot of geography trivia...

Tamworth, N.H. (White MT. Nat. Forest area) letterboxes?

Started by rospa10 (wilmes2@mindspring.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-05-12
We will be staying up there Memorial Day weekend (20th anniv.!) I printed out all the clues for l.b.s in the area. We particularly love hiking to waterfalls so will be sure to visit Arethusa Falls...

Pez Pam

Started by Melanie (maiden1974@verizon.net) | 1 message | First message: 2004-05-11
Pez Pam, Would you please email me off list! Maiden1974 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

ME-Popplestone

Started by Lisa (limurme@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-05-11
I just added a second box to Back Beach, complete with extra special cuckoo clue inside for the first finder. http://www.letterboxing.org/BoxView.asp?boxnum=8090&boxname= Back%20Beach Lisa

New to letterboxing- VA

Started by Manda (eskieluvr@hotmail.com) | 1 message | First message: 2004-05-11
Hi all, I'm brand new to letterboxing. I had never heard of it until yesterday. I'm in the process of making my stamp, and I'm heading out Friday to find the handful that I found listed in...

Website Suggestion- a solution

Started by greycrazy1 (greycrazy1@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2004-05-11 | Last message: 2004-05-12
I was thinking about the redesigning of the website, and the things that I've enjoyed/had troubles with since starting this hobby. I honestly think the site is fabulous and love the old world...