Oh, I almost forgot to mention. Every few months, I like to read the answers to the question about what feature people would most like to see added to Atlas Quest. http://www.atlasquest.com/people/answers.html?gQuestionId=36

I actually do read these and often make changes to AQ because of them. =) In fact--I added the Google Maps specifically because SOOO many people wrote about wanting a feature like that. Drop what I was working on and started on the maps instead.

Not that I can make everyone happy, but it kind of works as a "to-do" list for me. =)

-- Ryan

These are ones I'd like to see implemented...

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Free Beer & Pizza

The ability to cook dinner for me.

alien letterboxes

How about a list of lets say / well kept secrets. Tunnels, abandoned buildings, an Urban Exploration/Spooky Place Section

1. Add a few more lasers! 2. Change the ending of "Gone With the Wind" so Rhet does give a darn! 3. Have Kenny Loggins sing your theme song.

The beer dispenser.

A massage instead of message button.

A Death Ray.

Secret meanings to Zen koans.

chickens chasing the curser

Trailside delivery service

What's your opinion on these ones?

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a simple PF count on your page .. or on your profile?

The ability to search for letterboxers by location, not just name.

Ability to enter found boxes even when not reported as planted.

Ditch the Premium Members. It's exclusionary.

A running log of entries from people who find each box...

I'd like to be able to see the list of boxes I've found.

I'd like to be able to view the online logbook of letterboxes not my own.

being able to put your finds in your log book.

That it was less US optimized

The color-coded ribbons and trophies are a little confusing - maybe just actual numbers of plants/finds?

I really do like the food and beer dispensing idea.

FG

see i told you this could be fun.
so much so, that i missed a word!

eeevil PA boxes!
i have heard about them, but didn't have the time last year.
i will be around a lot longer this year.

prepare for another invasion
david (team new hampshire)
http://teamnewhampshire.blogspot.com

s m bt slwr thn vryn ls!
why s vryn pckng n m?
wht dd d t dsrv ths?
LL!
wll nywy, fl lk n dt fr mssng wrd n my wn trnsltn.
stll thnk t wld b wndrfl d fr lttrbx.

jst crs, wht wld th stmp lk lk!

rckn nd rlln n th grnt stt
dvd (tm nw hmpshr)
http://tmnwhmpshr.blgst.cm

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jst crs, wht wld th stmp lk lk!

Irony says it should be 5 stamps.
a e i o and u.

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Irony says it should be 5 stamps.
a e i o and u.

that is a fabulous idea! get going team NH!
six stars

When I was in high school a genius friend of mine Realikzed that you could combine my first and last names into one word. It has stuck ever since!

CHAD +ADAMS = CHADAMS

chadams

5 more stamps to carve!
sounds like a plan.

spring cleaning:
11 carved so far
1 postal stamp carved
1 exchange stamp to plant
1 being worked on now
7 more, now in planning
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20 total

keepin busy while keepin warm
david (team new hampshire)
http://teamnewhampshire.blogspot.com

I am a rock hound. It was my first love of hunting:-) Anyway, long ago a dear German friend, who is now deceased, gave me an exuisite specimen of baddeleyite, which has become the crowning jewel (so to speak) of my collection. Incidently, it's pronounced bu-day-lee-yite .

And, of course... I'm a babe!

Badd Babe

Well, people often claim that there are no vowels in the Welsh language, so maybe that's why these are so easy for me to read... On the other hand, I have always maintained that there are far more vowels in Welsh -- we'd have to remove all the Ys and Ws, too! ;-)

Webfoot (r shld tht b bft?)

well lets see...when celtic quinn and myself first started seeing each other i had asked ot be called kitten- its been a nickname that ive always wanted...so several days later he was telling everyone abotu me and calling me kitten- he didnt relaly wna tot tell them my real name...to give me some kind of privacy he says...and then when i finally decided i wanted to join aq someone had signe dup a few days befor eiwth kitten so i searched google for things having to do with kittens and found kitten without mittens (as in the child story) and smiling kitten or soemthing liek that...i had liked the idea of trying to get something i can never achieve (thats my life story) so i decided on that...it stuck and i very much liek it....

wow that was long winded....
the very pleased with her name kitten without mittens

MO UR4Me = Missouri, You Are For Me

I moved to Missouri (MO) from California 14 years ago and I LOVE it here. I thought I would hate it, but it is so beautiful and green. (OK, so right now it's actually brown, but it's always brown in San Diego except for the 2 weeks in spring when there's a bit of rain to green things up and the mustard plants bloom. Then it's all brown again. It's pretty in the tourist areas where things get watered, but out where normal people actually live, it's mostly brown.) In the summertime here, everything is a vibrant, lush green. I just can't get enough of it. When we first moved here, I couldn't believe that there was grass growing along the highways. I thought "Who waters all this?" After a while, I realized that God waters it! (And the state of MO mows it.)

I actually did get the idea from a similar license plate in San Diego a looong time ago - SDUR4ME).

We got our trail name from a "religion" that we have created for ourselves. We call it L*U*N*A which stands for Living,Understanding,Nurturing,Appreciating. It is a little bit Pagan, a little bit Native American spirituality and a bit of honoring Mother Nature and all that she has to offer. Because there are 7 of us in our family we are definitely a crew- so altogether we are the LUNA crew.

thanks, what a fun question!

Hi, MOUR4ME -- I'm down the street (well, Highway 70) from you in Columbia. :)

My trail name evolved over a number of years - I am a Web programmer by day, so that's where the Web part comes from. I participated in an online and mailart project with a number of other carvers and was known as Webfoot, Wizard of Internet Intelligence, since I kept the online gallery for the project. When the project changed and everyone involved took on an animal persona to carve and depict in various situations, I kept the name Webfoot, but came up with a critter that would match the name. When it came time for me to choose a trailname for letterboxing, it just seemed like a natural. I write Web applications by day and hotfoot (er... Webfoot) it around hunting for boxes in my spare time!! :)

Webfoot

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Webfoot, Wizard of Internet Intelligence,

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I kept the name Webfoot

Phew, that was close! You might have chosen Wizard of Internet Intelligence and then we would have all called you Wii

LOL

YT

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Phew, that was close! You might have chosen Wizard of Internet Intelligence and then we would have all called you Wii

;-)

Good one!

Webfoot

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How did everyone come up with their trail name?

Ours came from the characters we were playing in a game called Terris (the game we met in). I was playing a sprite and the Highlander was playing (crazy as it sounds) a HIGHLANDER! LOL