I just found my first letterbox. The Valdosta GHP box. WOW!!!I am
hooked!!!! Remember your first?!!
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Excitment
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Started on 2005-05-31
Excitment
From: carol (carolfaith@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2005-05-31 20:44:53 UTC
Re: [LbNA] Excitment
From: (hdaum@comsquared.com) |
Date: 2005-05-31 17:35:36 UTC-04:00
You bet I remember my first! It was a mystery box by Cherokee Rose and I
was sooo excited when I found it that I accidentally stamped the log
book with its own stamp instead of my own! I was about 30 shades of red
and I DID explain it to the owner and I DID stamp in with my own stamp
as well. That was 3 months and many many boxes ago. I have been a true
addict ever since and love every second of it (welllll-maybe not hiking
on the side of a cliff to get a box and maaaaybe not walking on wet
slippery rocks) but I love the rest of it!
Congrats on finding your first box!!!!!!
Brook
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>I just found my first letterbox. The Valdosta GHP box. WOW!!!I am
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was sooo excited when I found it that I accidentally stamped the log
book with its own stamp instead of my own! I was about 30 shades of red
and I DID explain it to the owner and I DID stamp in with my own stamp
as well. That was 3 months and many many boxes ago. I have been a true
addict ever since and love every second of it (welllll-maybe not hiking
on the side of a cliff to get a box and maaaaybe not walking on wet
slippery rocks) but I love the rest of it!
Congrats on finding your first box!!!!!!
Brook
carol wrote:
>I just found my first letterbox. The Valdosta GHP box. WOW!!!I am
>hooked!!!! Remember your first?!!
>Faithful
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Re: [LbNA] Excitment
From: MayEve (mayeve511@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2005-05-31 16:46:56 UTC-07:00
Ahhhh You NEVER forget your first! Ever. Mine was The Fairy Pool by The Bird Stamper. Welcome to the madness! MayEve
carol wrote:I just found my first letterbox. The Valdosta GHP box. WOW!!!I am
hooked!!!! Remember your first?!!
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Re: [LbNA] Excitment
From: Suzanne Coe (wilmcoe@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2005-05-31 17:12:55 UTC-07:00
Oh yes--"Holt's Landing" in slowerlowerDelaware. (Smile when you say that, pardner)
We spent 1/2 an hour searching in the wrong place and I came back infested with mites--and the boxing bug. It was GREAT!
Sheba
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We spent 1/2 an hour searching in the wrong place and I came back infested with mites--and the boxing bug. It was GREAT!
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Re: [LbNA] Excitment
From: Barefoot Lucy (barefootlucy@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2005-05-31 17:32:35 UTC-07:00
I surely do! It was in a park my family went to visit
often, down a trail I had been down many, many times.
In fact, when I read the clues, I could almost tell
you exactly where it was!
It was very difficult for me to believe that there was
something hidden along that very trail that I thought
I knew so well, so when we went digging, I fully
expected to come up empty-handed. Lo and behold,
exactly where the clues said it would be was the box -
with everything in it that I thought was going to be
there!
I visited that box again recently with some friends
who I had just introduced to boxing. We had been on
a long, arduous hike - one of those hikes that seems
like it is uphill the whole way - and the letterboxing
came at the very end of the hike. I knew that if we
had gone in the other direction, we could have been to
the box in five minutes or so, but we were out
participating in Scouting's Jamboree On The Trail, so
it seemed fitting that we take the long way. Both of
my friends had about had it with hiking and they both
sat down on a log to rest. I started homing in on the
box - buried behind the log right under their rear
ends! I had to laugh at them as they jumped up,
startled to find they had been sitting on my mission!
I remembered how unsuspecting I had been when I found
that box too...
As a bonus, I flipped through the logbook and found
that my family had been FF's on that box - and we had
used store-bought stamps. Our first day letterboxing
had been the only time we had used store-bought and I
had completely forgotten that we had ever used them.
Wow!
Lucy
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often, down a trail I had been down many, many times.
In fact, when I read the clues, I could almost tell
you exactly where it was!
It was very difficult for me to believe that there was
something hidden along that very trail that I thought
I knew so well, so when we went digging, I fully
expected to come up empty-handed. Lo and behold,
exactly where the clues said it would be was the box -
with everything in it that I thought was going to be
there!
I visited that box again recently with some friends
who I had just introduced to boxing. We had been on
a long, arduous hike - one of those hikes that seems
like it is uphill the whole way - and the letterboxing
came at the very end of the hike. I knew that if we
had gone in the other direction, we could have been to
the box in five minutes or so, but we were out
participating in Scouting's Jamboree On The Trail, so
it seemed fitting that we take the long way. Both of
my friends had about had it with hiking and they both
sat down on a log to rest. I started homing in on the
box - buried behind the log right under their rear
ends! I had to laugh at them as they jumped up,
startled to find they had been sitting on my mission!
I remembered how unsuspecting I had been when I found
that box too...
As a bonus, I flipped through the logbook and found
that my family had been FF's on that box - and we had
used store-bought stamps. Our first day letterboxing
had been the only time we had used store-bought and I
had completely forgotten that we had ever used them.
Wow!
Lucy
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Re: [LbNA] Excitment
From: JOY (TeamTexUS@houston.rr.com) |
Date: 2005-05-31 20:57:00 UTC-05:00
i hear you about those wet, slippery rocks!!!
JOY of TeamTexUS
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From: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 4:36:15 PM
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Excitment
You bet I remember my first! It was a mystery box by Cherokee Rose and I
was sooo excited when I found it that I accidentally stamped the log
book with its own stamp instead of my own! I was about 30 shades of red
and I DID explain it to the owner and I DID stamp in with my own stamp
as well. That was 3 months and many many boxes ago. I have been a true
addict ever since and love every second of it (welllll-maybe not hiking
on the side of a cliff to get a box and maaaaybe not walking on wet
slippery rocks) but I love the rest of it!
Congrats on finding your first box!!!!!!
Brook
carol wrote:
>I just found my first letterbox. The Valdosta GHP box. WOW!!!I am
>hooked!!!! Remember your first?!!
>Faithful
>
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JOY of TeamTexUS
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From: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Date: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 4:36:15 PM
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Excitment
You bet I remember my first! It was a mystery box by Cherokee Rose and I
was sooo excited when I found it that I accidentally stamped the log
book with its own stamp instead of my own! I was about 30 shades of red
and I DID explain it to the owner and I DID stamp in with my own stamp
as well. That was 3 months and many many boxes ago. I have been a true
addict ever since and love every second of it (welllll-maybe not hiking
on the side of a cliff to get a box and maaaaybe not walking on wet
slippery rocks) but I love the rest of it!
Congrats on finding your first box!!!!!!
Brook
carol wrote:
>I just found my first letterbox. The Valdosta GHP box. WOW!!!I am
>hooked!!!! Remember your first?!!
>Faithful
>
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Re: [LbNA] Excitment
From: (Doublesaj@aol.com) |
Date: 2005-06-01 10:55:04 UTC-04:00
Our first box was just 3 years ago. The Davis Box on the UC Davis campus in
California. It's an 'indoor' box and was hidden, unbeknownenced to anyone
inside, in a VERy off-limits place. You really had to be sneaky. In fact, since it
was my first box, I was chicken to go for it and had to come back the next day
with a look out to cover my back! I even had her take a photo of me getting
it and it's in my log book.
A few months after I found it, another unlucky finder was discovered, assumed
to be a terrorist and the place was locked down and the cops called! It now
resides "behind the desk" of said establishment but--what fun is that!? (no
wonder it has been adopted--the owner never wanted to be identified!)
I'm so glad I was able to find it in the original, exciting, spot!
~~Doublesaj & Old Blue~~
P56 F 438 X104 V18 HH 35 S17
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California. It's an 'indoor' box and was hidden, unbeknownenced to anyone
inside, in a VERy off-limits place. You really had to be sneaky. In fact, since it
was my first box, I was chicken to go for it and had to come back the next day
with a look out to cover my back! I even had her take a photo of me getting
it and it's in my log book.
A few months after I found it, another unlucky finder was discovered, assumed
to be a terrorist and the place was locked down and the cops called! It now
resides "behind the desk" of said establishment but--what fun is that!? (no
wonder it has been adopted--the owner never wanted to be identified!)
I'm so glad I was able to find it in the original, exciting, spot!
~~Doublesaj & Old Blue~~
P56 F 438 X104 V18 HH 35 S17
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Re: [LbNA] Excitment
From: funhog1 (funhog@pacifier.com) |
Date: 2005-06-01 17:35:12 UTC
I, too, found the Davis box long ago, before the Big Bust.
To this day, it is still thrilling to think about. As I sat
stamping in, my palms were sweating, worrying about
putting the thing back in its stealthy hiding place. I
figured out what direction I should be facing when I did
it and how to do it as quickly as possible. The stamp was
no stunning work of art but it is hand carved, the clues
very clever, the hiding place was brilliant. I do hope the
creator of this box knows what a memorable box they
hid! Funhog
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, Doublesaj@a... wrote:
> Our first box was just 3 years ago. The Davis Box on the UC Davis campus in
> California.
To this day, it is still thrilling to think about. As I sat
stamping in, my palms were sweating, worrying about
putting the thing back in its stealthy hiding place. I
figured out what direction I should be facing when I did
it and how to do it as quickly as possible. The stamp was
no stunning work of art but it is hand carved, the clues
very clever, the hiding place was brilliant. I do hope the
creator of this box knows what a memorable box they
hid! Funhog
--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, Doublesaj@a... wrote:
> Our first box was just 3 years ago. The Davis Box on the UC Davis campus in
> California.