I like your type :). I love it when finders leaves note only their trailname and the date but a note about their experience while finding the letterbox. I think a lot of letterboxers worry about taking too much room up in the logbook - if you find one of mine, take as much room as you need (but I'd appreciate an email if the logbook gets down to one empty page, then I'll go out and replace it asap).

Oh wait, you're talking about your own personal logbook right? Not the letterbox's logbook? Anyway I still say put a note in the letterbox's notebook too.

Lone R

K K wrote:
Hi folks!

I am the type of person that would like to make a note or two about
the weather, whether the hike was difficult or not, any snake bites
lol, stuff like that. I'm assuming that one puts the location along
with the name of the letter box too?

Kevin






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Hey there, nwbulldog -

And welcome to LbNA!!! :D I, too, am orignally from Bellingham - now transplanted to Arizona (Tucson, more specifically). What part of Bellingham are you in? My parents still have a house over by Whatcom Falls and there is a letterbox in there, which I have yet to find. Fellow Letterboxers have done a great job about the placement of letterboxes up in and around town. You know as well as anyone that you catch Larrabee at low tide, the walks on the beach are awesome, especially when you can see the starfish, and there are a few letterboxes out Larrabee way.

My best friend introduced me to Letterboxing and I wasn't sure how things should be done, either, but I am one of those people, too. I started making notes of the weather, impressions of the area I was in, etc. I would make similar notes in the log book that I stamped - granted, there was space available. My first log book was a tiny thing - I have now "graduated" to a sketch book and there is more room to write more thoughts. There is no right or wrong way to stamp your very own log book. That's the beauty of letterboxing is that you let creativity guide you. You make your log book your own. :)

Another great website that you may want to check out, if you haven't already done so, is www.atlasquest.com. Atlas Quest and LbNA - very smilar. And since you are so close to BC, you can always venture out and get those ones close by, like in Abbotsford, Langley, Aldergrove, etc.

Anytime you feel like conversing outside of here, you can always get me at this email address or you can find me under "AZJokester" on Atlas Quest.

Take care and have fun!! :D

~ AZJokester ~

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----- Original Message ----
From: K K
To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 4:47:32 PM
Subject: [LbNA] My first post!

Hi folks!

This is my first post in this group and I could probably be the first
person that has ever posted without having a stamp, or finding a
letter box yet! Forgive me...I'm just excited. ha...

I live in Bellingham, WA which is about 90 miles north of Seattle and
my sister told me about letterboxing a few days ago. I am really
excited to start this adventure/hobby/ past time. I am going to try
and carve my stamp tomorrow and apparantly there is a letterbox about
a block from my house! Guess where I'm heading first?

I do have a question about protocol. I guess it's more about what is
the recommended thing to do and I'm guessing the answer is
probably "however you want to do it" but I'll ask anyway. After
finding a letterbox and stamping my own book, is there a norm on how
to do it properly? I found a nice 4x6 sketch pad book that is acid
free and I can probably fit 2-3 different stamps/letterbox' s on it.
I am the type of person that would like to make a note or two about
the weather, whether the hike was difficult or not, any snake bites
lol, stuff like that. I'm assuming that one puts the location along
with the name of the letter box too?

Thanks all and I look forward to joining you on this adventure!

nwbulldog (ahh! I saw there was already a bulldawg! Sorry about
that)
Kevin






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Wow, Lone R, I didn't think about that. I know that in my personal
log book I put down what the weather was like (sunny, overcast, rainy,
etc.) what we were doing, if anything neat happened (such as seeing a
new bird or watching 3 deer for 20 minutes huffing and stomping to try
to scare us out of their route to the creek) I never thought about
putting this info in the LB log book -- I was always concerned with
trying to conserve space for the person. I could see how that would
make their log book more interesting when they recover it. Thanks!

midlandtrailblazer

you were absolutely right. whatever works for you. We (JARs of clay) always travel together but each have our own books and started with small journals (the 4x6) only to have realized we like journaling and space for the LARGER stamps that are definitely out there (the 4x6 ones!) so we now each have a 9x12 sketch book. I wouldn't absolutely count on the 4x6 book holding more than 2-3 stamps per page and know it will occasionally only fit one...there are stamps that large out there, not as many as the smaller ones but there definitely are. Ultimately it boils down to whatever you're willing to carry as you walk or hike or jump in and out of your car. Good luck and happy hunting! To: letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.comFrom: djdawg321@yahoo.comDate: Wed, 30 May 2007 23:47:32 +0000Subject: [LbNA] My first post!


















Hi folks!

This is my first post in this group and I could probably be the first
person that has ever posted without having a stamp, or finding a
letter box yet! Forgive me...I'm just excited. ha...

I live in Bellingham, WA which is about 90 miles north of Seattle and
my sister told me about letterboxing a few days ago. I am really
excited to start this adventure/hobby/past time. I am going to try
and carve my stamp tomorrow and apparantly there is a letterbox about
a block from my house! Guess where I'm heading first?

I do have a question about protocol. I guess it's more about what is
the recommended thing to do and I'm guessing the answer is
probably "however you want to do it" but I'll ask anyway. After
finding a letterbox and stamping my own book, is there a norm on how
to do it properly? I found a nice 4x6 sketch pad book that is acid
free and I can probably fit 2-3 different stamps/letterbox's on it.
I am the type of person that would like to make a note or two about
the weather, whether the hike was difficult or not, any snake bites
lol, stuff like that. I'm assuming that one puts the location along
with the name of the letter box too?

Thanks all and I look forward to joining you on this adventure!

nwbulldog (ahh! I saw there was already a bulldawg! Sorry about
that)
Kevin
















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hello

4x6 artist book
we always stamp on only one page
because like you, we like to write a few notes
who was with us....anything special we saw/found

also
shrink down the clues and rubber cement them into the log book
because many of the clues are terrific!

dixie darlin'