After finding most of the letterboxes in the great state of Nebraska, and
without a single hitchhiker in any of them, I decided to create and launch
one myself. A trip to a grocery store provided the tools I needed -- an
eraser, a box cutter (the cheapest blade I could find, since I have to
throw it away before flying back east), ziploc bags, and a Mead notebook. I
then carved the Nebraska Hopper hitchhiker, commemorating the plague of
grasshoppers that are currently eating their way through the state.

I encountered the little critters every time I walked through the prairie
grass -- hundreds and hundreds of them flying and hopping out of the way
just before I landed each step. I actually think I saw more grasshoppers
than people wearing red U of N Cornhusker shirts, hats and sweatshirts on
Saturday (game day) -- though it was a close count, for sure. Let me tell
you, those Nebraskans are football crazy!

The stamp is a bit crude, I'll admit, but you have to give me credit for
working freehand with a box cutter! But now, somewhere in Nebraska, the
Nebraska Hopper Hitchhiker is itching to jump to a new location. Let me
know when you find him and I'll track his progress here:

http://www.letterboxing.info/box-hh_nebraskahopper.shtml

Doug

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