While I'm here on the talk list (first time in many months), and "on a roll", I might as well
mention another "mystery" that's been puzzling me for a long time now. It's actually
about one of the mapsurfer boxes that was not supposed to be a mystery, and should
have been one of the easiest ones of his to get, had it not been for that fact that it seems
to have "disappeared", and no one I've asked seems to know anything about it! The
"mystery" then becomes how to relocate this box and get it back in motion - something
that should not be too difficult considering it's a chance for anyone interested to get a
genuine mapsurfer box with perhaps less effort than is generally required for his boxes
(except, of course, for that super easy "Pandora" one that Mark Pepe "spilled the beans
on" when he was still a "newbie" letterboxer three years ago, and we still had to give him
many hints before he finally found it!!! :-)

Anyway, this box we are talking about now is the F500 Box that mapsurfer sent to us
several years ago. We were asked to stamp our 500th find into it, and try to get other
people to stamp their 500th find into this box in chronological order as they also reached
F500. We shared the box at a little F500 gathering in CT, incorporating people's photos as
a sort of letterboxing "history of achievement" as mapsurfer had suggested for us to do,
for about the first dozen or so recipients that were there. Then, around Christmas time of
2003, we passed the box along to Dan and Melissa of Voluntown, CT, who thanked us via
e-mail. Since then, despite our repeated inquiries, no one seems to have heard anything
about it!

By now, of course, there are many more people eligible for this box, so we surely expect
that someone out there will be able to solve this "mystery" and get this special box back
into circulation. It seems there was also at one time a mapsurfer F100 box that
"disappeared" for almost a year, apparently waiting for people to reach that goal before
passing it along, and we don't know where that box is now either. But, we're sure
someone out there can solve these "mysteries" and maybe get a genuine mapsurfer
letterbox or two in the process!

As the mapsurfer himself would say, (we enjoyed the saying so much we took it over for
ourselves!)
Cheers,

Wanda