Letterboxing USA - Yahoo Groups Archive

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October 2003

DATE A SINGLE LETTERBOXER IN YOUR STATE OR ZONE!

Started by Sir Balthazar (neovolatile@yahoo.com) | 5 messages | First message: 2003-10-18 | Last message: 2003-10-22
This is the best place in the world where you can meet successful, handsome carvers of rubber erasers for hikes up rocky defiles, defiled rocks, flame wars, cheese racing, sprains and inkstains to...

CA New box

Started by (Doublesaj@aol.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2003-10-17 | Last message: 2003-10-18
Take a look at the "What's New" list on the main page of letterboxing.org. You'll find 2 new boxes in northern California and they're not too far apart. One placed by yours's truly and another that...

Boxes in NM?

Started by Leanne (ymgleanne@yahoo.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2003-10-18 | Last message: 2003-10-19
Hi all, I am new to letterboxing and I just moved to NM and was wondering if anyone knows of any boxes down here?!! We are in Ruidoso, but we would travel to be able to do some boxing!!:-)...

NY - Saga of the Travelling Man HH .

Started by Bob LaBelle (r.labelle@verizon.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2003-10-18 | Last message: 2003-11-21
After only a couple of overnights at the Finger Lakes (NY-?) LB the Travelling Man Hitchhiker will soon be on the road headed west. But its journey so far seems worth recounting. Apparently, it...

CT - My 100th

Started by J. BRIDGMAN (jmbridgman@snet.net) | 2 messages | First message: 2003-10-17 | Last message: 2003-10-18
I am a relative newby to letterboxing having begun in late August of this year. I am thrilled to be able to report that I found my 100th box today as I was hiking Onion Mt. Park in West Simsbury, CT...

Boxes in Boothbay, Maine area?

Started by Laura/Nautilus (naturbuf@gwi.net) | 4 messages | First message: 2003-10-17 | Last message: 2003-10-19
Might get a chance to head up to the Boothbay region of Maine on Sunday and am wondering if anyone has recently found "Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens", "Porter Preserve", "Whale of a Tale", or...

NY HH released

Started by Ron Salladin (salladin@frontiernet.net) | 1 message | First message: 2003-10-17
The Black Jack Acorn HH was sent on it's way recently somewhere in Northern NY State, hidden behind an erratic. Happy hunting. RON'nRON

NJ - box retired

Started by Kimberly (MartianShark@msn.com) | 1 message | First message: 2003-10-17
I've retired the Liberty State Park box. As the statue is closed, and part of my clue was chopped down, I figured it was getting difficult. I will put a drive by box there, with a different image,...

FL letterboxing report

Started by (StDebb@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2003-10-17
< there on fairly infrequent occasions, I doubt anyone will ever find it, but if they do it is an extra stamp, rather than a disappointment.>> This is a GREAT idea! I love it. Very...

Attn DNA about new Robin Box

Started by irishtinker (irishtinker@charter.net) | 1 message | First message: 2003-10-17
When going down Bunker Hill Road, Nathan Hale Road is a right hand turn. Hop River is a left hand turn off of Bunker Hill. The section you are speaking of as a left hand onto N. Hale is actually...

New letterboxing website idea!!

Started by (ctletterboxer@aol.com) | 1 message | First message: 2003-10-17
just like the Geocaching website! It's long overdue! Volunteers? [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Speaking of maintainance,

Started by jugglermouse (jugglermouse@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2003-10-17 | Last message: 2003-10-19
Today I carved a stamp that probably no one will ever find. My maintainance is often done by taking a box home with me, cleaning it up, cleaning the stamp, maybe changing out the logbook,...

Fake rock making

Started by Dawnette (rbngdfello@aol.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2003-10-17 | Last message: 2003-10-17
Sir B, Though I risk asking a question that may have been answered many times before (alas, a search on "boxes" turns up far too many hits on this list), may I respectfully inquire where you...

Help Me Count.

Started by Ivy Hedge (poisonivy@haveashittyday.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2003-10-17 | Last message: 2003-10-17
I'm nearing a landmark F number and am in the counting house counting out my stamps. I did a archive search and am having difficulty coming up with an authoritative answer. I CRAVE STRUCTURE! ...

OH: Update Antrim Animals, Columbus

Started by bookeditor42 (bookeditor42@yahoo.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2003-10-17 | Last message: 2003-10-26
I've received a couple different reports about box 2 at this location, including that it is missing. My last report is the box is there (YEA), but very wet. I'll be at the Columbus Marathon all...

BaseBall-ot

Started by thelionandsanddollar (pmoriarty01@snet.net) | 4 messages | First message: 2003-10-17 | Last message: 2003-10-17
No Red Soxs....No Cubs.... :( AMPM

STAR:W+S=DRR (Martha By Mail)

Started by Wanda (wsthm@hotmail.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2003-10-17 | Last message: 2003-10-17
You were the 5th person to sign up for the Martha by Mail postal letterbox. So that put you on the list for Martha #1. Martha only cloned herself into four, when the signup list got too long. So...

I've changed my website a bit

Started by Dog Scouts Troop (DogScouts@hotmail.com) | 1 message | First message: 2003-10-16
I have made a few changes to my website because I have several clues and I'm using a "free" website that only gives me a limited number of pages and entries per page. I have moved all my clues to the...

Was this Lady CheeseRacing? Jersey Devils, Beware!

Started by Sir Balthazar (neovolatile@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2003-10-17
80-Year-Old Woman Knocks Rat Unconscious Thu Oct 16, 9:52 AM ET BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A supermarket rat that had dodged a number of poison traps got its comeuppance when an 80-year-old shopper...

Promoting Letterboxing

Started by wi_letterboxer (kotlarek@wi.rr.com) | 3 messages | First message: 2003-10-17 | Last message: 2003-10-17
Hi! I'm a "newbie" who just started letterboxing in July. My husband & I are having a lot of fun with it and have about 30 "finds" so far which includes some travelers and hitchhikers. We're...

Wanda - Superboxer!

Started by Bigguy (bigguy9210@yahoo.com) | 1 message | First message: 2003-10-16
That Wanda is truely a wonder woman. Isn't there some sort of award for action above and beyond the call of duty in service to letterboxing? If not, maybe there should be. I'll nominate Wanda to...

NJ - new Haunted Halloween '03 series (4 boxes)

Started by Kimberly (MartianShark@msn.com) | 2 messages | First message: 2003-10-16 | Last message: 2003-10-17
Here's the link for a new series of letterboxes I've put out over the past couple of weeks. They are all in places believed to be haunted, so search for them at your own risk :) One is in Somerset...

Martha by Mail #3, a warning

Started by Deanne & Dave (deebes@net1plus.com) | 1 message | First message: 2003-10-16
Martha # 3 arrived at the lazy letterboxer's house completely traumatized by her visit to phynstar (seems like phynstar's 2002 Christmas decorations were still up). She immediately began to rave...

CT rescue by Wanda and Pete

Started by rospa10 (wilmes2@mindspring.com) | 1 message | First message: 2003-10-16
I totally enjoyed this story of Uncle Sam's Nephew l.b. being snatched from the hollow of a tree before discovery by hoards of leaf peeping weekend walkers. How the heck did Wanda keep a poker...

Box Status-Yea or Nay

Started by rospa10 (wilmes2@mindspring.com) | 1 message | First message: 2003-10-16
We all have different learning styles and ways of looking at/analyzing and organizing info. When it comes to this beloved hobby of mine, I prefer the will-nilly surfing through the messages on...