BROWN EYES GOES LETTERBOXING: another great find

What is Letterboxing?

Letterboxing is an outdoor hobby that combines elements of orienteering, art and puzzle solving. Letterboxers hide small, weatherproof boxes in publicly-accessible places (like parks) and distribute clues to finding the box in printed catalogs, on one of several web sites, or by word of mouth. Individual letterboxes usually contain a logbook and a rubber stamp. Finders make an imprint of the letterbox's stamp on their personal logbook, and leave an impression of their personal stamp on the letterbox's logbook — as proof of having found the box. Many letterboxers keep careful track of their "find count". *Wikipedia*

How to add LB clues to Ipod

I saw this on a thread on atlasquest.com, now I cant seem to find it to check the users name to give him credit. sorry. I finally got this to work on my ipod and now I have 3 clues that are in the same park. Its a great deversion, when you're looking for a box you can stop to read your clue and it looks like you are changing you music on your ipod!!

1. Highlight and copy the clue you want to save.
2. Paste it into textedit, or another word program that can save things in the plain text format(.txt). Save it in the text format. (on a Mac, in textedit, this is under the 'Format' heading, and says, 'make Plain text')
3. Name the file with the town and name of the letterbox.
4. Make sure your iPod is on Manually 'Manage Songs & Playlists' mode. Plug your iPod into your computer. From the 'summary' tab, select "Enable disk use" or "Manually manage songs and playlists"
5. Drag this file into the 'Notes' folder of your iPod.
6. Now it's available on your iPod on the trail! (in the Extras catagory, under Notes)

Monday, September 17, 2007

another great find

I went Letterboxing with my nephew The Champion and my daughter K on Saturday, the buddys (Tweeter and Mugsy McGee came with us). We found the box without any trouble and I'm so glad there is finally a LB in the Weschester Lagoon area. I wanted to plant one there and still might later. it was sunny but windy, not bad if walking and wearing a sweater but to stamp in I had to take my gloves off and and stamping into to 4 logs books takes a while. (my book, champions, and the 2 buddys) My hands were cold!!!

before we left the buddys posted for a pic. K was in the pic too but decide to run away at the last minute. The champion ran after her before she dove into the freezing water. she saw it and screamed AGUA!!!!!

*this is a picture of a fence at the place we found the LB today. I took a pic because I thought it kinda looked weird. What are those kids doing?? and why is there a pole coming out of the boys head!! LOL