This may or not be interesting to anyone, just thought I'd share it.
I read about letterboxing about a year ago in a Hartford Courant
article, which I cut out and showed around. I had no one express any
interest in it, but on my 42nd birthday (4/16) I dragged my wife and
2 daughters (4 & 6) out to Wadsworth Falls in Middlefield CT.
We only did the first box, as we thought the girls had enough. The
excitement of finding our first box ran through all of us. My four
yr old (Aubrey) kept asking on the way back to the van if we could go
back to that SAME box. We told her we would go again soon, although
I did not know how soon. Two days later at the insistance of my wife
and girls, we set out to find some more boxes, this time the ESAK
boxes in our hometown of Southington. This was a more strenuous
trail and we could only do the first box (about 1/2 mile uphill) on
the first day as it started to thunder and lightning halfway to the
box(fish head). Two days later we decided to tackle the 2nd box and
never realized that it was pretty vertical in spots. The kids were
great, though and loved every minute of it. It was a full non stop
vetical hour to this second box, and pretty slippery in spots. The
clues were great, and by the time we found it-we were thrilled and
extremely proud of our little hikers. Anyone who has done this box
will realize it probably isn't a good trek for a 4 and 6 yr old, but
we did not want to stop cuz we didnt know how close we were. Of
course, the kids wanted to keep going. It was already almost 5:00pm
and we had 40 mins down hill to get to the van, so we called it a
day. So we did 3 boxes in our first week, which is not bad cuz I am
built like a pasta salesman. We are going again this week or
weekend, and have more confidence in the strength and stamina of our
little ones than we thought possible, which will open it up for us to
do even more boxes. We are loving our new found family hobby and
thank you all for your hard work and dedication in planting all of
these boxes and clues. We are moving to Florida in July and will
plant some boxes there in hopes of eventually having the high
concentration that our native Connecticut has.
God bless,
Rick, Anne, Kala, & Aubrey
Our first adventures in CT
2 messages in this thread |
Started on 2002-04-23
Our first adventures in CT
From: rjohn5000 (RJohn5000@yahoo.com) |
Date: 2002-04-23 04:23:36 UTC
Re: [LbNA] Our first adventures in CT
From: Noelle Bresser (avis4@voicenet.com) |
Date: 2002-04-23 09:21:04 UTC-04:00
Yeah to you and your family. It makes it more fun when you can enjoy the
"find" with someone. I usually hike alone, but once in a great while I can
convince a friend to go along.
Muk-Luk
rjohn5000 wrote:
> This may or not be interesting to anyone, just thought I'd share it.
> I read about letterboxing about a year ago in a Hartford Courant
> article, which I cut out and showed around. I had no one express any
> interest in it, but on my 42nd birthday (4/16) I dragged my wife and
> 2 daughters (4 & 6) out to Wadsworth Falls in Middlefield CT.
> We only did the first box, as we thought the girls had enough. The
> excitement of finding our first box ran through all of us. My four
> yr old (Aubrey) kept asking on the way back to the van if we could go
> back to that SAME box. We told her we would go again soon, although
> I did not know how soon. Two days later at the insistance of my wife
> and girls, we set out to find some more boxes, this time the ESAK
> boxes in our hometown of Southington. This was a more strenuous
> trail and we could only do the first box (about 1/2 mile uphill) on
> the first day as it started to thunder and lightning halfway to the
> box(fish head). Two days later we decided to tackle the 2nd box and
> never realized that it was pretty vertical in spots. The kids were
> great, though and loved every minute of it. It was a full non stop
> vetical hour to this second box, and pretty slippery in spots. The
> clues were great, and by the time we found it-we were thrilled and
> extremely proud of our little hikers. Anyone who has done this box
> will realize it probably isn't a good trek for a 4 and 6 yr old, but
> we did not want to stop cuz we didnt know how close we were. Of
> course, the kids wanted to keep going. It was already almost 5:00pm
> and we had 40 mins down hill to get to the van, so we called it a
> day. So we did 3 boxes in our first week, which is not bad cuz I am
> built like a pasta salesman. We are going again this week or
> weekend, and have more confidence in the strength and stamina of our
> little ones than we thought possible, which will open it up for us to
> do even more boxes. We are loving our new found family hobby and
> thank you all for your hard work and dedication in planting all of
> these boxes and clues. We are moving to Florida in July and will
> plant some boxes there in hopes of eventually having the high
> concentration that our native Connecticut has.
>
> God bless,
> Rick, Anne, Kala, & Aubrey
>
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"find" with someone. I usually hike alone, but once in a great while I can
convince a friend to go along.
Muk-Luk
rjohn5000 wrote:
> This may or not be interesting to anyone, just thought I'd share it.
> I read about letterboxing about a year ago in a Hartford Courant
> article, which I cut out and showed around. I had no one express any
> interest in it, but on my 42nd birthday (4/16) I dragged my wife and
> 2 daughters (4 & 6) out to Wadsworth Falls in Middlefield CT.
> We only did the first box, as we thought the girls had enough. The
> excitement of finding our first box ran through all of us. My four
> yr old (Aubrey) kept asking on the way back to the van if we could go
> back to that SAME box. We told her we would go again soon, although
> I did not know how soon. Two days later at the insistance of my wife
> and girls, we set out to find some more boxes, this time the ESAK
> boxes in our hometown of Southington. This was a more strenuous
> trail and we could only do the first box (about 1/2 mile uphill) on
> the first day as it started to thunder and lightning halfway to the
> box(fish head). Two days later we decided to tackle the 2nd box and
> never realized that it was pretty vertical in spots. The kids were
> great, though and loved every minute of it. It was a full non stop
> vetical hour to this second box, and pretty slippery in spots. The
> clues were great, and by the time we found it-we were thrilled and
> extremely proud of our little hikers. Anyone who has done this box
> will realize it probably isn't a good trek for a 4 and 6 yr old, but
> we did not want to stop cuz we didnt know how close we were. Of
> course, the kids wanted to keep going. It was already almost 5:00pm
> and we had 40 mins down hill to get to the van, so we called it a
> day. So we did 3 boxes in our first week, which is not bad cuz I am
> built like a pasta salesman. We are going again this week or
> weekend, and have more confidence in the strength and stamina of our
> little ones than we thought possible, which will open it up for us to
> do even more boxes. We are loving our new found family hobby and
> thank you all for your hard work and dedication in planting all of
> these boxes and clues. We are moving to Florida in July and will
> plant some boxes there in hopes of eventually having the high
> concentration that our native Connecticut has.
>
> God bless,
> Rick, Anne, Kala, & Aubrey
>
>
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> List info, archives, etc: http://www.letterboxing.org/list.html
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