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.