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Buttercup
True Blue Farmgirl
1422 Posts
Germany
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 Posted - Apr 09 2007 : 9:56:49 PM
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Megan,
Thank you so much for posting this! I had never heard of it. I visited the websites and saved them and printed off some info for DH. He thought it was a really neat idea and we are going to see if we can't start doing it as a family soon! How neat!! Thanks again!!
Hugz!
Talitha
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britchickny
True Blue Farmgirl
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Angie
Avon
NY
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Posted - May 05 2007 : 08:04:46 AM
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Megan, just saw your post. Since I go back to the UK every 3 or 4 years to visit my family, I am VERY familiar with letterboxing! My family actually lives on the edge of Dartmoor and we could hike right onto the moor and spend hours if not days searching for all the boxes. I have one on Dartmoor that my family 'monitors' for me. When my note-book is full of stamps they put a new one in the container and mail me the filled note-book so I can see who 'visited'. Now, each time I visit my family, I go and check my box to see who has visited me! Very adictive!
Angie.
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Alee
True Blue Farmgirl
22745 Posts
Alee
Billings
MT Sister # 8
USA
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Posted - May 05 2007 : 6:06:51 PM
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BritChickNY-
That is so neat that you have a letterbox back home! A really neat idea. I wonder if I could think of a place to put one... hmm...
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britchickny
True Blue Farmgirl
948 Posts
Angie
Avon
NY
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Posted - May 06 2007 : 05:01:16 AM
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Alee, you have to save your pennies and go to Dartmoor! Imagine a landscape that goes on forever. Very few trees but huge outcroppings of granite evrywhere. These are called Tors. Hundreds of the letterboxes are hidden on/under/around these Tors. Some boxes are very easy to find, some are not. The idea is that you must not'change the landscape' in any way to either hide your own box or to look for someone else's. It is such fun to read the notes in someone else's box and see who has found it. And then you get to rubber stamp their book with your stamp and write them a message. Perhaps it is a primitive blog!!! What a concept!
Ang. (ps, I would be glad to be your tour guide!)
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brightmeadow
True Blue Farmgirl
1847 Posts
Brenda
Ray Township
Michigan
USA
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Posted - May 06 2007 : 6:36:39 PM
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Thanks so much for sharing this! I was familiar with geocacheing, I learned about it through an amateur radio activity, but I had never heard of letterboxing before. I am doing a geocaching event with the Girl Scouts in my council next Saturday. I'll have to be sure and let them know about letterboxing, if they don't have a GPS this is something they could do on a teenage budget!
You shall eat the fruit of the labor of your hands - You shall be happy and it shall be well with you. -Psalm 128.2
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NeeneeB
Farmgirl in Training
34 Posts
Kristin
N Windham
CT
USA
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Posted - Jun 07 2012 : 2:48:35 PM
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Rather than start a new thread on the topic, I decided to reply to this older one. We've been letterboxing for several years now and love it! It's one of my favorite ways to get out of the house. I've carved a few stamps and made a few books and want to work on those skills this summer when I'm off from work. Anyone else letterbox? We do some geocaching too but I'm not so good at it!
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SpyChicken
True Blue Farmgirl
388 Posts
Christine
Fond du Lac
WI
USA
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Posted - Jun 08 2012 : 2:15:19 PM
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This sounded like a lot of fun, so I took a peek at the website! Now, dh and I have plans to find a box while we are on our Niagara Falls trip! We'll have to improvise the stamp but I can't wait to see how we do. If all goes well, the family will investigate more boxes close to home.
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Joey
True Blue Farmgirl
1256 Posts
Joey
Dunedin
FL
USA
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Posted - Jun 09 2012 : 9:42:44 PM
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Hi all. My DH and I have been letterboxing for over 2 years..I think my DH has at least 100 from all over the country. Now my DD and her family do it too. It has taken us so many interesting places that we wouldn't have gone otherwise. We also geocache and love that too, but I like letterboxing better. My DH loves th "hunt" to find it. I like the stamps and reading what people write. My name on atlasquest is "Travelin RN." You can look up my box and see where I have been, although I have several I have to post still. If anyone has questions please e-mail me. I'll be glad to help. Thanks Megan, for posting this. I never thought about it. We've even been to a letterbox retreat and there are tons of boxes near us. We started bcause it was my way of getting us off the couch and outdoors. It was cheap and fun. Maybe someday we'll meet on the trail. Joey
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Simply Satisfied
True Blue Farmgirl
232 Posts
Emily
Montana
USA
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Posted - Jun 10 2012 : 8:25:41 PM
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I am so excited to try it. My girls are pretty young, 5 and 2, so I worry about the three of us out hiking alone. Most of the boxes I see listed around me aren't in the woods like the geocaches are so I feel much safer trying to find them. I am a little uncreative though so I am not sure about making my own stamp. I am already trying to figure out when we can get out and try to find one though.
Emily
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Joey
True Blue Farmgirl
1256 Posts
Joey
Dunedin
FL
USA
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Posted - Jun 11 2012 : 10:10:11 PM
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Emily, alot of letterboxes are in parks or playgrounds. Also, although we have letterboxed for years, my Dh and I have not carved our own stamps. We got them at Michaels. They represent us. My stamp is a pair of flipflops and DH is a bird. I guess someday we'll get around to carving stamps but so far have not and have never gotten any flack about it. Joey
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rough start farmgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
2192 Posts
marianne
medical lake
WA
USA
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Posted - Jun 12 2012 : 03:02:26 AM
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Thanks so much for sharing this. It sounds very interesting ... a fun new hobby!
Marianne |
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musicmommy
True Blue Farmgirl
364 Posts
Wendy
Oregon
USA
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Posted - Jun 12 2012 : 07:05:05 AM
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Letterboxing is so much fun for my boys. Our oldest takes the clue list and off they go. I've had to bite my tongue a few times when they've gone the wrong direction, but they eventually figure it out. We even did letterboxing at Disneyland a couple of years ago. That was a hard place to be stealthy!
My youngest said that he feels like Indiana Jones when we letterbox.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley
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Simply Satisfied
True Blue Farmgirl
232 Posts
Emily
Montana
USA
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Posted - Jun 13 2012 : 06:27:46 AM
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We are so excited, today or tomorrow weather permitting on one of them we are off. Definately we will start with buying as I have read and read and sounds like it isn't so bad and we have so many around or house I can't believe it. I explained it to my five year old who loves treasure hunts and she doesn't quite get it but she will.
Emily
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Simply Satisfied
True Blue Farmgirl
232 Posts
Emily
Montana
USA
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Posted - Jun 13 2012 : 11:53:25 AM
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We found our first two letter boxes today! So fun. The girls loved it so while the youngest naps today we will plan tomorrow's hunt.
Emily
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ruthie218
True Blue Farmgirl
471 Posts
Ruthie Ann
Indiana
USA
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Posted - Jun 14 2012 : 05:40:06 AM
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Hi! This looks likec a fun activity. There are 4 boxes within a six miles of my house. Today Im packin up the kids and were off to find the first box. Then a picnic and playing in the park.
Thanks for a great share,
Ruthie Ann
http://simpleindianagirl.blogspot.com/
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