October 9, 2006
Letterboxing, Redux
reposting with pictures.
Today Fiona and I went out letterboxing. This was my first experience, and her second. It's the first time either of us have ever really used a compass.
The first place we went was to the big tire by I-94. There was some tromping into woods there that made me slightly nervous, but we both had on long pants and long sleeves and socks so I hoped no poison ivy got us (so far so good.)
It was very cool. Seeing the stamps in their book from all over the place was cool too. Fiona wants to put our own out now, and I know just where to do it, but I need to check it out to see if it'll work.
Being down under the big tire was real cool too. I'd never known there was a way to get back to it.
We looked for 3 more after that, but they were all on private property. This made me nervous, so I probably didn't look as thoroughly as was needed, and we didn't find any of them. I wouldn't be surprised if they've all been removed.
There are a ton in Ann Arbor, and a bunch out by another friend, and it's a great mother/daughter thing to do with her age (and he interest is keen) so we'll be doing this most of the winter, locally, I suspect. Then we'll have to start making daytrips to get the further ones out, and I'll have to start printing off ones for us to do individually on our vacations.
Oh, and we need to make our own stamps. I'm looking to do 2"x2" - any advice would be great.
Posted by Liz at October 9, 2006 9:08 PM