John the Lone Wolf Belgian dropped me a note with a couple of
letterbox series that he discovered while surfing "letterboxing" in
his favorite search engine. I was flabbergasted to learn there are
20 letterboxes close-by in MA and RI that I hadn't heard of and that
aren't "on the map" at LBNA. I've written to the owners asking if we
can link to them officially, but meanwhile thought I'd give you all
the URLs so you can go look for them too. I also teased out a couple
more sites, one in CO and one in MN. Enjoy!
Jay from CT (working in NH this week)
South County Rhode Island "Quests"
http://www.tontlamets.org/green.htm
Bolton, MA (We visited two of these boxes this weekend and RAVED)
http://www.boltoncommon.com/departments/letterboxing.html
Delano Middle School, Delano, MN
http://www.delano.k12.mn.us/letterbox/CLUES.htm
Colorado's claimed first letterbox (link doesn't work?)
http://www.gigagraphica.com/Michelle/letrbox.html
Now, I'm sure there must be more we don't know about! For instance,
there are 3 or 4 letterboxes here in my area that are not on line but
are available at the EMS Store in Waterford, CT (no commercial
affiliation, BTW, but they have been great in promoting the sport in
CT)
"New" to me
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Started on 2000-09-18
"New" to me
From: Jay Drew (drewclan@aol.com) |
Date: 2000-09-18 18:31:21 UTC
Re: [LbNA] "New" to me
From: Randy Hall (randy@mapsurfer.com) |
Date: 2000-09-18 19:21:51 UTC-04:00
> Delano Middle School, Delano, MN
> http://www.delano.k12.mn.us/letterbox/CLUES.htm
Lone Wolf stamped this one first too (8/23/99) :-)
(sorry, hunting for letterboxing sites is like hunting
for boxes)
> Colorado's claimed first letterbox (link doesn't work?)
> http://www.gigagraphica.com/Michelle/letrbox.html
This does look like a new find, though perhaps this
should remain speculative at best until somehow comfirmed
or the clues found. Perhaps its a mystery mystery
box :-)
> Now, I'm sure there must be more we don't know about!
Prolly more than we _do_ know about. That's what I've always
thought anyway (I think many letterboxers are not into the
internet -- we're used to letterboxers who are and might
find that notion absurd). Remember, the CEE-Antioch (VQ)
fellow (Dr. Sobel I believe his name is) claims to have
started in 1989 and they had 52 when LbNA had not that
many (its interesting that the whole VQ program, including
URL, was mentioned in another letterbox stamped by Dr. Sobel,
that's how I learned about it anyway, and because of a bug
in the Institute's html at the time, the search bots could
never find it)
There's also
http://pages.hotbot.com/travel/fire.fly/letterboxing.html
which has been on the faq since 2/99 but I've never heard
anything more about it ...
Cheers,
--
randy "the mapsurfer" (P27F102)
Hogeita hirugarren kutxak kolonia zaharean da.