Jay Drew wrote:
>
> Sarah, IOU again! It was your work that turned me on to letterboxing,
> and when you mentioned the Y2K Bug letterbox at the campfire, Ned and
> I were immediately planning our own. We had also seen something about
> traveling letterboxes on a Dartmoor website: now with so many boxes
> and boxy seekers, it's definately time to add a few here (I was
> checking a new letterbox today on a long lunch run, and ***6***
> people had signed in as a group!). So, thanks again! Hope to see
> Fuzzy Caterpillars soon, but they're mobile little inchworms....and,
> we're glad to hear that Blurred Borders #2 has had another visitor as
> well...
>
> (you can see our traveling boxes listed at
> http://members.aol.com/drewclan/whatsnew.htm)
>
> Jay in springy-cool CT
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I really like the idea of "Parasite Boxes" although the name has a lot
to be desired. Maybe hitchhiking boxes ? It's probadly just my over
reaction to a Deer Tick bite. Anyway I hope we are at the right place
at the right to get one of those parasites (boxes).

Take Care,
Rick

> I really like the idea of "Parasite Boxes" although the name has a lot
> to be desired. Maybe hitchhiking boxes ?

I did a clue a year or so ago called a "cuckoo clue". The idea was that
the clue (not the box) traveled from box to box and you stamped the clue
with your stamp and the stamp in the box that you were placing the clue
in.

Sort of like: placed in by on

I put three of these out there, and I know at least one has been found.
I wonder if any of them have a nice long history yet.

--
randy "the mapsurfer"
http://www.letterboxing.org

Sarah:
I love the concept of a 'parasite'letterbox - I'd at least thought about
doing one a while back, well, anyhow--good for you for getting one
going!

One idea that I had was to put a bunch of postcards in with it,
addressed to the 'owner', they could be stamped up with the finder's and
the current "host''s. I was thinking how interesting it might be to
have a page of scans of the box's travels.

Maybe someone will do a "Paddle to the Sea" letterbox, someplace near
Lake Superior. Hmmmmm

Erik

--- erik/susan davis wrote:
> Sarah:
> I love the concept of a 'parasite'letterbox - I'd at
> least thought about
> doing one a while back, well, anyhow--good for you
> for getting one
> going!
>
> One idea that I had was to put a bunch of postcards
> in with it,
> addressed to the 'owner', they could be stamped up
> with the finder's and
> the current "host''s. I was thinking how
> interesting it might be to
> have a page of scans of the box's travels.
>
> Maybe someone will do a "Paddle to the Sea"
> letterbox, someplace near
> Lake Superior. Hmmmmm
>
> Erik

Unless some other letterboxers are going to be any
closer to Lake Superior than I am, I think that means
I'm elected. What exactly did you have in mind? If
this is a parasite box in the sense already discussed,
wouldn't other letterboxers have to move it from my
initial placement? I fear that this part of the
country has few known letterboxers at the moment
(though plenty of boxes!) and only the Mapsurfer has
made the trip out here that I know of.
How about this alternative: start the parasite box out
east, moving along the Great Lakes, then when it
reaches Wisconsin, I move it south along the
Mississippi where someone else takes it. Eventually
the box should end up in California and Oregon where
so many other letterboxers live.

Steven Stary
Green Bay, WI

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Here's a thought:
In addtion to the postcards that could track the box's
progress, how about including one of those single-use
disposable cameras so whoever finds it can take a snap
and send it on to the next person who does the same.
I think we'd get some interesting pictures of the
box's journey.

Steven Stary

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Steve Stary wrote:
> Unless some other letterboxers are going to be any
> closer to Lake Superior than I am, I think that means
> I'm elected. What exactly did you have in mind? If
> this is a parasite box in the sense already discussed,
> wouldn't other letterboxers have to move it from my
> initial placement? I fear that this part of the
> country has few known letterboxers at the moment
> (though plenty of boxes!) and only the Mapsurfer has
> made the trip out here that I know of.
> How about this alternative: start the parasite box out
> east, moving along the Great Lakes, then when it
> reaches Wisconsin, I move it south along the
> Mississippi where someone else takes it. Eventually
> the box should end up in California and Oregon where
> so many other letterboxers live.
>
> Steven Stary


Steve:
The idea of a travelling Letterbox, especially one that sends back notes
on its progress, is a very attractive concept to me - the reference to
"Paddle-to-the-Sea" is to a classic kid's book, where a Native American
youth carves a little canoe with traveler and places it in a snowbank
that melts into Lake Superior in the spring, thus launching a voyage
thru the lakes to the St Lawrence, etc.

A few years back, the kids in our local elementary school made a
slightly larger version, (by the same name, even!) and left it on the
side of the road with a sign. AS I recall, it did make it to the West
coast, with lots of post cards back from the kind folks giving it a
life. The note-in-a-bottle tossed overboard to the whims of life is a
powerful metaphore.

I'd almost like to put a little "box-cam" into a travelling letterbox to
see where it goes. Thus, at least, the postcards idea, as the next best
thing.

Following on your go-west theme, perhaps a Horace Greely Box, or maybe,
a '49er gold rush box. Wouldn't it be great to see one actually cross
the country?

Erik

Erik,
I remember that your Butler Island box had post cards in it and how cool
that was. That is a really cool idea and may help me keep track of the
boxes if someone isn't computer savvy and can't e-mail me. Thanks for the
tip. Hope to get to Vermont again sometime soon and maybe meet for coffee,
etc. I've sent for the Valley Quest, as I've done most of the other Vermont
boxes. Vermont better watch out for those parasites they spread fast.

-Sarah- :)
-----Original Message-----
From: erik/susan davis
To: letterbox-usa@egroups.com
Date: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 6:26 AM
Subject: Re: [LbNA] Parasite Boxes


>Sarah:
>I love the concept of a 'parasite'letterbox - I'd at least thought about
>doing one a while back, well, anyhow--good for you for getting one
>going!
>
>One idea that I had was to put a bunch of postcards in with it,
>addressed to the 'owner', they could be stamped up with the finder's and
>the current "host''s. I was thinking how interesting it might be to
>have a page of scans of the box's travels.
>
>Maybe someone will do a "Paddle to the Sea" letterbox, someplace near
>Lake Superior. Hmmmmm
>
>Erik
>
>
>
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