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Newbie Intro

2 messages in this thread | Started on 2003-09-19

Re: [LbNA] Newbie Intro

From: Carlos Brimer (wildhawk@blomand.net) | Date: 2003-09-19 02:09:39 UTC-05:00
Hello everyone, I would like to introduce myself. I am from Tennessee and I
recently rediscovered letterboxing after I had been into geocaching for a
while. It happened after I ran accross what was called a Letterbox Hybrid,
I then did a search on letterboxing and found this group, the LbNA website,
and a lot of other sites as well.

I say rediscovered because I read that 98 Smithsonian Magazine article and
thought it sounded great but at that time I didn't have a computer and had
other comittments on my time so nothing came of my intrest, now I wish I had
presued it more.

Be that as it may be, I am very new to this, I only have one stamp in my
logbook and I am still trying to get my personal stamp just the way I want
it. I also see that Tennessee doesn't have a lot of letterboxes and I hope
to change this in the furture, but that may take a while because my carving
skills aren't the best at the moment.

I also have done a couple of virtuals which I found interesting and will
probably do more but I just haven't quite figured out how to put the
pictures/stamps into my logbook and make them look good. I'm thinking
probably a glue stick of some sort will be the way to go on this. Anyway I
know from reading the posts on the yahoo site that not everyone counts
virtuals in their F Count. I have decide to count them, in part, I guess,
because there are so few boxes here, which brings me to another question.

Am I the only letterboxer from Tennessee on this group?

The reason I ask is because I have noticed that several boxes are marked as
unclaimed and that some are placed by people from other states, which I have
no problem with, I'm just wondering how many letterboxers are in Tennessee.

Wildhawk
P0 F3 V2


Virtual Stamps (was Newbie Intro)

From: abacus00 (abacus00@yahoo.com) | Date: 2003-09-19 11:46:47 UTC
Another option for getting virtual stamps into your log book is to
print them on an Avery label and then just peel and stick. You need
to find labels that are a good size for your log book.

--Mahjong

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, Carlos Brimer
wrote:
> I also have done a couple of virtuals which I found interesting
and will
> probably do more but I just haven't quite figured out how to put the
> pictures/stamps into my logbook and make them look good. I'm
thinking
> probably a glue stick of some sort will be the way to go on this.