warm fuzzies

i really love that you can leave comments now on AQ. just had a couple really nice notes from a recent finder that made me smile. also, very very excited about a recent plant in galveston that we thought had already gone missing, but as it turned out, it's been found! yay!

NPR and letterboxing

audio of Linda Wertheimer's story on letterboxing on Weekend Edition Saturday, April 10, 2004

Third Time's a Charm?

Yesterday we looked for "Harry Potter #2"(that's listed on LBNA). it's really close to our house. We attempted it last year, but the area had been significantly flooded so we were unable to get to it. a few month's ago, Carter and I looked for it again after seeing that a couple people had found it since the flood, but we had no luck. Yesterday, we took Ann with us (since she's the best looker in the family!), but we still couldn't find it, so we're calling it quits on this one.

waco treasure chest

Dear Texas Letterboxers and lurking friends far and wide:

4Armstrongs and Travelin' Ts are excited to announce a letterbox series planned for Waco's Cameron Park . Texas' largest municipal park (and one of the largest in the United States) sprawls over 400 acres and includes nearly 20 miles of trails for hiking and biking. The series will include six separate boxes throughout various parts of the park. Together the stamps of the six boxes will form a seventh clue, leading to the final box, containing a treasure trove of stamps. We would like to invite anyone interested in participating in this adventure to contribute stamps for the treasure chest. Please contact us at: travelintsoftexas@gmail.com if you would be interested in being a part of this exciting addition to the central Texas letterboxing experience.

We're also considering a waco event to launch the series if that helps entice your participation! :-)

happy trails,

4Armstrongs and Travelin' Ts
travelintsoftexas@gmail.com

tag clouds

just ran across a cool website that converts your blog or website into a tag cloud, or visual representation of the keywords found in the source (http://wordle.net). here's what this blog looked like:

crazy small world

So last summer, we met Astro D in Santa Fe. This past spring, we met Astro D's college roommate and recent letterbox convert, Bell Motel, who lives in Austin.  Last month, we planted a letterbox in Galveston ("Just Off the Strand"), inspired  by this beautiful Victorian building. Within a week, we get a note from Bell Motel, who happens to be visiting a friend in Galveston whom she's gotten hooked on letterboxing. They visit this recent plant of ours and get this...Bell Motel's friend is a relative of a 19th century Galveston businessman for which the building is named! How Crazy is that?!?! AND, the living relative, worked at the Hotel Galvez as a teenager, which is where the clues begin for the other box we planted while visiting Galveston ("The Great Storm"). And just think...if we hadn't met this nice letterboxer in Santa Fe a year ago, we'd have no idea of the name or story of the building in Galveston.  Small, but fun, crazy, and delightful world.

another one bites the dust

Well, another letterbox of ours planted at the Arboretum in Woodway ("Little Critters") went missing. UGGH! It's such a great spot, but in about a month's time, two of the three boxes we planted there have gone MIA.