Our first box was Round Hill, in Sudbury, MA.
There my sons and I were pleased by the hill and the view, tickled by
the stamp of the lazy letterboxer, and had their first exposure to the
ubiquitous wandaandpete, and impressed by the hand carved fern stamp of
andileo! So close to home, so interesting, and immediately addicted.

Dale End Farm

EllBee wrote:
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> Our first box -- 9/15/2004 on the beautiful Outer Banks of NC. 'Bodie
> Lighthouse' by Pop Pop & Grandma Crane. It was a store-bought stamp, but
> we were still addicted. That box is apparently gone, alas, but it is
> fondly remembered!
> EllBee
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> mjpepe1@comcast.net wrote:
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> > PLEASE . . . .let's let this post die the death it deserves!
> > There are so many other things we can discuss -
> >
> > How about talking about the first box you ever found?
> >
> > Mark
> > (one of the moderators)
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> > >
> > And just when the thread was dying down, dragonrider felt the need to
> > post this nastiness? Gee, thanks for sharing.
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Our first box was 6/16/2002 in Essex, CT. It was Jay Drew's "Zoom, Zoom, Zoom." I took Sue away for her birthday to a B & B and took a few clues. Thanks to Jay, who later became a good friend, we were and still are, hopelessly addicted!

Mark

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From: EllBee
Our first box -- 9/15/2004 on the beautiful Outer Banks of NC. 'Bodie
Lighthouse' by Pop Pop & Grandma Crane. It was a store-bought stamp, but
we were still addicted. That box is apparently gone, alas, but it is
fondly remembered!
EllBee

mjpepe1@comcast.net wrote:
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> PLEASE . . . .let's let this post die the death it deserves!
> There are so many other things we can discuss -
>
> How about talking about the first box you ever found?
>
> Mark
> (one of the moderators)
>
> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: "TrailTroll" > >
> And just when the thread was dying down, dragonrider felt the need to
> post this nastiness? Gee, thanks for sharing.
> ..
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>




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My family's first box was Baby Bear's Tejas in Mission Tejas State Park. The
park is a favorite for my family and when I first read the clues I could
practically visualize the very place it was located. We could scarcely
believe there would be a box just feet from the path we had taken many
times, so when we peeked over the log and brushed stuff away and discovered
it was indeed so, we were pretty awestruck!



Mission Tejas SP is still one of my family's favorite camping places and it
is the park where we first introduced our son's cub scout den to
letterboxing a few years ago by planting temporary boxes in the park for
them to find.



My son is now a Boy Scout and I am going camping with his troop this weekend
to you guessed it Mission Tejas SP where I plan to break away and find
several more boxes that have popped up there in the last year. Needless to
say, I plan to peek over that log yet again to make sure Baby Bear's box is
still in place. And you know what? I still get a charge out of finding it
there!



And my second box, by the way, was Silver Eagle's Spanish Flag box in the
same park





--
Barefoot Lucy
"It's not about footwear, it's about philosophy"


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Our first letterbox was Holyhock Island in Jay Drew's Three Rivers
Series back on 4/23/02. Again, somewhere we had often been. We were
amazed at how many times we had literally walked right past it without
ever knowing it was there. We were definately hooked after that.
After nearly 6 years (and 2 kids), we still get that familiar thrill
when we first spot that box:-)

ampm & tmsm

Our first was a series, the "Huntington Beach Micros" placed by Lee and Nancy. It was a
gorgeous day, and we rode our bikes along the beach from the Santa Ana River Jetty to the
Huntington Beach pier (about six miles roundtrip). They chose some great "landmarks"
like the swimmer standing on her head, and the naked surfer. The boxes had handcarved,
very cute stamps. What a fun day - wonderful memories!

Deborah

--- In letterbox-usa@yahoogroups.com, EllBee wrote:
>
> Our first box -- 9/15/2004 on the beautiful Outer Banks of NC. 'Bodie
> Lighthouse' by Pop Pop & Grandma Crane. It was a store-bought stamp, but
> we were still addicted. That box is apparently gone, alas, but it is
> fondly remembered!
> EllBee
>
> mjpepe1@... wrote:
> >
> > PLEASE . . . .let's let this post die the death it deserves!
> > There are so many other things we can discuss -
> >
> > How about talking about the first box you ever found?
> >
> > Mark
> > (one of the moderators)
> >