http://www.pclink.com/elf/sewanee.htm
It has taken me a while to figure out where Sewanee, Tennessee is, but I
finally did it. Becky has informed me that the letterbox linked to the
Sewanee page (Max Patch), though the clues start in Sewanee, is actually
many miles to the northeast near Max Patch Mountain by the North
Carolina border, so if you go out that way to do both boxes make sure
you plan for a day or at least a half day.
Becky and her friends are orienteerers, so you will notice the clues get
a little more involved. Compare her clues to the Rock Creek and Coon's
Cache clues at
http://www.pclink.com/elf/rockcrk.htm
Anyway, its interesting to see orienteerers invlolved (who'd've
figured..? ;-) and 4-Wheelers (OR)... and Mail artists (TX)... and
architects (VT)... and are Bonita (MA) and Mary Ellen (CA) teachers
also? -- along with Bob Summers (AK) and Graham Howard (UK)?
I don't remember if I shared with you that I started out doing
navigation in the Navy coupled with data systems, then I worked as a
surveyor for 7 years: hence my interest in maps and geography and GPS
and the internet (I now program computers). I find it fascinating that
maps are a universal medium and that they tend to not change much over
time. So unless major roads change or your boxes reach the end of their
service-life the maps here will remain useful. I also find it
fascinating that this hobby has invloved so many different kinds of
people from so many different age groups and walks of life. I'm just
guessing but I think we cover from about 20 years old (Rachel? IL) to
about 60 or 70 (Graham? UK) I'm 40. And all the different types we
have -- Artists and the creative types to us egg-head computer types.
This is cool! I'm happy you people are enjoying this with me.
I'm just rambling here...
Shannon, you still out there or have you Gone Gecko?
Take care ya'll,
Dan'l
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Tennessee on the map
5 messages in this thread |
Started on 1998-10-19
[L-USA] Tennessee on the map
From: Daniel Servatius (elf@pclink.com) |
Date: 1998-10-19 19:58:02 UTC-05:00
[L-USA] Re: Tennessee on the map
From: Shannon Green (sgreen@wf.net) |
Date: 1998-10-20 00:16:30 UTC-05:00
At 07:58 PM 10/19/98 -0500, Daniel Servatius wrote:
>I'm just rambling here...
>Shannon, you still out there or have you Gone Gecko?
What a coincidence that you should be rambling and be reminded of me. I'm
here! I'm skimming email and trying to keep up with all the boxes going
out left and right. I was reading your message and pondering your comments
about how letterboxing includes people of all ages from all walks of life
and holds different appeal for each of us. It's a darn good thing, too.
I'll go anywhere for a good adventure but I'm not what you'd call a nature
girl. A couple of years ago I asked my grandmother if I could transplant
some of the ground cover from her immaculately landscaped yard to my
pitiful barely mowed yard. She was more than happy to oblige so I dug up a
bunch of green stuff, planted it in my flower beds, fed it, watered it,
nurtured it, and broke out in seeping blisters from head to toe as a result
of it. I'd never seen poison ivy before, how could I know??
I'll be binding a couple of journals next weekend for my boxes. I don't
know for sure if I can make it but I'm trying to get to the DFW area
sometime during November 3-7. Paper Routes is having a sale that I just
can't miss.
Shannon of the Jungle
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>I'm just rambling here...
>Shannon, you still out there or have you Gone Gecko?
What a coincidence that you should be rambling and be reminded of me. I'm
here! I'm skimming email and trying to keep up with all the boxes going
out left and right. I was reading your message and pondering your comments
about how letterboxing includes people of all ages from all walks of life
and holds different appeal for each of us. It's a darn good thing, too.
I'll go anywhere for a good adventure but I'm not what you'd call a nature
girl. A couple of years ago I asked my grandmother if I could transplant
some of the ground cover from her immaculately landscaped yard to my
pitiful barely mowed yard. She was more than happy to oblige so I dug up a
bunch of green stuff, planted it in my flower beds, fed it, watered it,
nurtured it, and broke out in seeping blisters from head to toe as a result
of it. I'd never seen poison ivy before, how could I know??
I'll be binding a couple of journals next weekend for my boxes. I don't
know for sure if I can make it but I'm trying to get to the DFW area
sometime during November 3-7. Paper Routes is having a sale that I just
can't miss.
Shannon of the Jungle
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[L-USA] Re: Tennessee on the map
From: Adrian Williams (havefeet@letterboxing.freeserve.co.uk) |
Date: 1998-10-21 05:28:31 UTC+01:00
Hi
Are you getting my replies.
Adrian
Have Feet Will Travel
Okehampton
Dartmoor
England
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Servatius
To: letterbox-usa@egroups.com
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 2:10 AM
Subject: [L-USA] Tennessee on the map
>http://www.pclink.com/elf/sewanee.htm
>
>It has taken me a while to figure out where Sewanee, Tennessee is, but I
>finally did it. Becky has informed me that the letterbox linked to the
>Sewanee page (Max Patch), though the clues start in Sewanee, is actually
>many miles to the northeast near Max Patch Mountain by the North
>Carolina border, so if you go out that way to do both boxes make sure
>you plan for a day or at least a half day.
>
>Becky and her friends are orienteerers, so you will notice the clues get
>a little more involved. Compare her clues to the Rock Creek and Coon's
>Cache clues at
>http://www.pclink.com/elf/rockcrk.htm
>
>Anyway, its interesting to see orienteerers invlolved (who'd've
>figured..? ;-) and 4-Wheelers (OR)... and Mail artists (TX)... and
>architects (VT)... and are Bonita (MA) and Mary Ellen (CA) teachers
>also? -- along with Bob Summers (AK) and Graham Howard (UK)?
>
>I don't remember if I shared with you that I started out doing
>navigation in the Navy coupled with data systems, then I worked as a
>surveyor for 7 years: hence my interest in maps and geography and GPS
>and the internet (I now program computers). I find it fascinating that
>maps are a universal medium and that they tend to not change much over
>time. So unless major roads change or your boxes reach the end of their
>service-life the maps here will remain useful. I also find it
>fascinating that this hobby has invloved so many different kinds of
>people from so many different age groups and walks of life. I'm just
>guessing but I think we cover from about 20 years old (Rachel? IL) to
>about 60 or 70 (Graham? UK) I'm 40. And all the different types we
>have -- Artists and the creative types to us egg-head computer types.
>This is cool! I'm happy you people are enjoying this with me.
>
>I'm just rambling here...
>Shannon, you still out there or have you Gone Gecko?
>
>Take care ya'll,
>Dan'l
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Are you getting my replies.
Adrian
Have Feet Will Travel
Okehampton
Dartmoor
England
-----Original Message-----
From: Daniel Servatius
To: letterbox-usa@egroups.com
Date: Tuesday, October 20, 1998 2:10 AM
Subject: [L-USA] Tennessee on the map
>http://www.pclink.com/elf/sewanee.htm
>
>It has taken me a while to figure out where Sewanee, Tennessee is, but I
>finally did it. Becky has informed me that the letterbox linked to the
>Sewanee page (Max Patch), though the clues start in Sewanee, is actually
>many miles to the northeast near Max Patch Mountain by the North
>Carolina border, so if you go out that way to do both boxes make sure
>you plan for a day or at least a half day.
>
>Becky and her friends are orienteerers, so you will notice the clues get
>a little more involved. Compare her clues to the Rock Creek and Coon's
>Cache clues at
>http://www.pclink.com/elf/rockcrk.htm
>
>Anyway, its interesting to see orienteerers invlolved (who'd've
>figured..? ;-) and 4-Wheelers (OR)... and Mail artists (TX)... and
>architects (VT)... and are Bonita (MA) and Mary Ellen (CA) teachers
>also? -- along with Bob Summers (AK) and Graham Howard (UK)?
>
>I don't remember if I shared with you that I started out doing
>navigation in the Navy coupled with data systems, then I worked as a
>surveyor for 7 years: hence my interest in maps and geography and GPS
>and the internet (I now program computers). I find it fascinating that
>maps are a universal medium and that they tend to not change much over
>time. So unless major roads change or your boxes reach the end of their
>service-life the maps here will remain useful. I also find it
>fascinating that this hobby has invloved so many different kinds of
>people from so many different age groups and walks of life. I'm just
>guessing but I think we cover from about 20 years old (Rachel? IL) to
>about 60 or 70 (Graham? UK) I'm 40. And all the different types we
>have -- Artists and the creative types to us egg-head computer types.
>This is cool! I'm happy you people are enjoying this with me.
>
>I'm just rambling here...
>Shannon, you still out there or have you Gone Gecko?
>
>Take care ya'll,
>Dan'l
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[L-USA] Re: Tennessee on the map
From: jjp (exposto1@airmail.net) |
Date: 1998-10-22 08:08:15 UTC-05:00
Hi Shannon!
So nice to know you're there!
Even nicer to find out that you have not one but 2! letterboxes in the
works. Love to hear it! Areyou thinking you'll put them out in a place
near you? (Sylvia! Sheila! ROAD TRIP!)
Let us know when head for the Paper Routes sale! (It does look like a good
one...) and maybe we can have a Letterboxing Summit (or whatever we decide
to call it that day).
Julie
"Give me the strength to change the things I can,
the grace to accept the things I cannot,
and a great big bag of money."
-- "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey
Want to buy a book? I'm trying to make a life-long dream come true and
open a bookshop. It's tiny, but it grows now and then. Come see!
>http://members.tripod.com/~anniespark1e/commercial.html
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So nice to know you're there!
Even nicer to find out that you have not one but 2! letterboxes in the
works. Love to hear it! Areyou thinking you'll put them out in a place
near you? (Sylvia! Sheila! ROAD TRIP!)
Let us know when head for the Paper Routes sale! (It does look like a good
one...) and maybe we can have a Letterboxing Summit (or whatever we decide
to call it that day).
Julie
"Give me the strength to change the things I can,
the grace to accept the things I cannot,
and a great big bag of money."
-- "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey
Want to buy a book? I'm trying to make a life-long dream come true and
open a bookshop. It's tiny, but it grows now and then. Come see!
>http://members.tripod.com/~anniespark1e/commercial.html
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[L-USA] Re: Tennessee on the map
From: Shannon Green (sgreen@wf.net) |
Date: 1998-10-24 23:14:18 UTC-05:00
One place is near me, the other is in (ssshhh) Oklahoma. It frightens me
to cross the Red River but sometimes it just has to be done.
I'm trying to get away from here on Friday or Saturday (the 6th or 7th) to
catch the Paper Routes sale. I'll let you know fer sure.
Toodles,
Shannon
At 08:08 AM 10/22/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Shannon!
>
>So nice to know you're there!
>
>Even nicer to find out that you have not one but 2! letterboxes in the
>works. Love to hear it! Areyou thinking you'll put them out in a place
>near you? (Sylvia! Sheila! ROAD TRIP!)
>
>Let us know when head for the Paper Routes sale! (It does look like a good
>one...) and maybe we can have a Letterboxing Summit (or whatever we decide
>to call it that day).
>
>Julie
>
>
>
>
>
>
>"Give me the strength to change the things I can,
> the grace to accept the things I cannot,
> and a great big bag of money."
>
> -- "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey
>
>
>Want to buy a book? I'm trying to make a life-long dream come true and
>open a bookshop. It's tiny, but it grows now and then. Come see!
>>http://members.tripod.com/~anniespark1e/commercial.html
>
>
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to cross the Red River but sometimes it just has to be done.
I'm trying to get away from here on Friday or Saturday (the 6th or 7th) to
catch the Paper Routes sale. I'll let you know fer sure.
Toodles,
Shannon
At 08:08 AM 10/22/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Shannon!
>
>So nice to know you're there!
>
>Even nicer to find out that you have not one but 2! letterboxes in the
>works. Love to hear it! Areyou thinking you'll put them out in a place
>near you? (Sylvia! Sheila! ROAD TRIP!)
>
>Let us know when head for the Paper Routes sale! (It does look like a good
>one...) and maybe we can have a Letterboxing Summit (or whatever we decide
>to call it that day).
>
>Julie
>
>
>
>
>
>
>"Give me the strength to change the things I can,
> the grace to accept the things I cannot,
> and a great big bag of money."
>
> -- "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey
>
>
>Want to buy a book? I'm trying to make a life-long dream come true and
>open a bookshop. It's tiny, but it grows now and then. Come see!
>>http://members.tripod.com/~anniespark1e/commercial.html
>
>
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