Galveston, TX

We recently spent a few days in Galveston and squeezed in some time to check on three letterboxes- "And Then There Were Nun", "Good Day!!!", and "We Have No Bananas," but sadly, all three seem to be missing. The silver lining though was that two of these were at a wonderful park (Kempner Park) that we'd never seen before. To make up for it, planted two letterboxes, "Just Off the Strand" and "The Great Storm." 

highlights and lowlights

Today Carter wanted to try his hand at carving (a scary proposition for a 5 year old!) but he had fun and didn't chop any fingers off! He wants to plant "his letterbox", which is so cute. i'm trying to decide how to put it out there for people to find, but not have them disappointed to find a stamp carved by a five year old!

Also today, we realized there was a geocache just down the street from our house and we decided to go look for it (our first "geocaching outing" without any coordinates or a GPS and found it! woohoo!

We also went to check on a box we'd planted not even a month ago...one we really liked in a cool place ("A Prickly Spot") and it's nowhere to be found. I know everyone who plants experiences this, but it doesn't make it any less sucky. Not sure what happened to it, but the last time i checked on it, the most recent finder hadn't done a very good job of rehiding it, which is really annoying. not sure if that happened again or what, but very disappointing. We also came to the realization that a box we planted in Frisco, Colorado ("Are There Bears Out There?") has gone missing as well. We'd hoped that the first person to email about not finding it was just in the wrong place, but shortly after two more said the same thing, so i'm sure it's gone. we changed the status on both of these to retired. Sand ending to a couple fun plants. We hope they were fun for the few people that had a chance to find them.