Finally getting around to announcing that our group X-C ski trip
last Saturday also marked the grand opening of the RI hitcher
hostel, the "Inn of the End" - to go along with its sister hostel in
CT, Jay's "Inn of the Beginning". We figured since so many of our
boxes have hosted hitchers that we have brought in from various
places (and even a couple that other folks have left!), why not
have a place here in RI where people could make an official
hitcher exchange, too, and keep an active hitcher tradition alive
here in this area when we're gone! So, here it is, now planted in
the Burlingame area with clues at

http://alum.wpi.edu/~p_miner/Letterboxes.html#Box_50

It may be a bit difficult to locate under the present snowy
conditions, but we're hoping the hostel will have lots of visitors
soon!

We've also added another box to the "Ornament" series - a
Valentine microbox called the "Broken Heart". Springchick's
lovely "Kindergarten Keepsakes" sent to us from Michigan is
also now planted, and there's still plenty of room on the return
loop for more ornaments! So, please come and visit when you
can, and thanks again to all who help make possible great
letterboxing memories!!!


Wanda (still enjoying the snow in RI before heading out N,S,E
or W!)


P.S. Glad that Pete's windbreaker and the Hot Ferrari Pizza at
URI afterwards helped Andy avoid hypothermia on his first time
ever out skiing and letterboxing, but Pete's poor hand is still all
swollen and purple after being the only person dedicated
enough to go out to look for and find the "Adventures of Tin Tin" -
as both he and darkness fell that evening! Almost like how I got
my hand and leg all banged up and bruised last summer falling
in a stream enroute to Maine's "100 Mile Wilderness" letterbox
the hard way - by backpacking the whole 100 miles! So, I guess
that qualifies us both for "purple hand" awards for being
"wounded in the line of letterboxing"! :-)