Welcome! Welcome! Welcome!
Have fun and enjoy the adventures! 😊

Welcome to Atlas Quest and to the wonderful world of Letterboxing!
Some areas have a bunch of missing Letterboxes, but don't give up! You may find a cool new place to explore and an amazing letterbox that's still there! Have fun! 😊

Welcome!
So glad you're here! 😊

I have returned from my adventure! I found two out of four stamps on my itinerary, which I think is pretty good. :) I have discovered three things:

1.) People don't pay strangers much mind, even if they're flipping stones, scrambling under bushes, and digging through the mulch.
2.) My signature stamp may be too large! It's roughly 1.5 in. x 1.5 in. One of the two letterboxes I found had no logbook, but the second one had a teeny tiny logbook. There was only one stamp in the logbook and it was about the size of a dime. I could have fit my stamp in if i put it sideways, but I didn't want to take up too much space (two pages! >.>). I guess I'll have to bring out my x-acto knife and smallest speedball cutter and see if I can make the world's first subatomic linocut stamp.
3.) There's a lot of treasures hidden away where nobody ever thinks to check!

Anyways, I had a few other stamps on my plan today, but the weather shifted to cold winds and ominous clouds. I took that as a sign to call it a day. There's a walking trail near me with a few letterboxes and I'll check that out next time the weather is nice. I would bring my dog but she seems more interested in donning roadkill perfume than any scavenger hunt. Has anyone considered doing a human-dog letterbox with a stamp AND a pungent critter inside? Just kidding :p

I'll update everyone again once I go to the walking trail. I'll post it in another thread to avoid posting too frequently in the newbie forum. Thanks everyone for being so welcoming to me! I'm very excited to be a part of this community :D

Hey! Welcome and congratulations of your first successful venture out. 2 out of 4 isn’t bad. 🙃

I would say your sig stamp is just fine. What we usually do in a situation like you describe, is just stamp the corner of it. There will be smaller ones and there will be bigger ones. I wouldn’t sweat it.


If you are wearing a safety vest and are carrying a clipboard they will pay you even less mind. Just sayin’… 😉

Well, bless ur little heart.

This at the moment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gate_House

Followup to the Gold Coast, which was north of my old stompin grounds in Lawn Guyland.

Best, LB

Welcome to the obsession..... Er....hobby! Your sig stamp is smaller than mine. I just stamp part of my stamp when it doesn't fit. :)

Yup, two out of four is pretty good. I always figure that the first stamp found makes the expedition a success, and anything after that is just gravy :)

We will see. But I did let him know in no uncertain terms that if he’s a no-show, that’s it, we are done forever. Kaput. Finished. I’ll never speak to him again.

I enjoyed that one! I do like historical fiction especially featuring females

Comfort of Crows looks intriguing!

Yes, Sheba.
I've encountered exactly one box that provided a silver ink pad.
Without it, it wouldn't have been the same image, and the stamp probably would have had black staining it.

Welcome to this fun hobby/obsession! I too enjoy linocut art and often visit a facebook page for it because their art and talent inspire me in my carving! Have fun hunting for boxes and sweet stamps- Happy trails!

Not bad results for your first day back! FYI...sig stamps vary in size, and so do logbooks-you will find all shapes & sizes in your travels, and IMHO your stamp is of an average size and should fit most logbooks....if you encounter tiny books, it's ok to just stamp part of your stamp in there, and write your trail name and date; box owners will also get your find report on AQ to know you were there! I also like your summary of the day and your finding experience-hunting boxes really gives you great perspective to how to (or how NOT to) plant!

Congratulations RDHG on your latest Purple Diamond!!

Thank you oodles! 💜 Who knew that a two digit clue would do so well? 😉

The last of couple of days, when I log into atlas on my phone, I get ads that cover half the screen. It’s the only site that I visit that does it, so not sure if it’s bug.

If it’s on my end, does anyone know how I can fix it? It’s really starting to annoy me.

Premium Members should not get ads, unless I am confused? Make sure you are logged in.

Oh my God, thanks, yea, I wasn’t logged in. Durrrrr

I was about to celebrate there being two NC BOTW's this month but yours in in SC.

We shall still claim it. 🥳

Have you updated your car warranty…, lol

Carolina BOTWs!

Wow! I had a great time this weekend letterboxing at Soups on 15th year! I have attended two now, and hope the date continues to work out.
Thank you to Nosox & hubby, your sis , Memere and all your family for putting on an outstanding event.
The carves this year were wonderful again : )

Shelly

Many thanks to all hosts and helpers for this amazing event! So many boxes! The organization and planning (and soup!) are what make this event so much fun every year :) Thank You for this amazing annual event! The extra Mini-Meet was especially appreciated.

The essays are on varying subjects, birding, friendship, technology....different things.

This review kind of makes it seem like it's almost all about birds but it's not really. He's an avid "birder" and has traveled all over the world as part of his hobby but he is not writing just about birds. He's narrating the audio book and that makes it really great.

NPR review

I have to log back in once in a while for no apparent reason and don't realize it until I see the ads. I never logged out.

Attending Soup's On has been on my bucket list and I finally made it happen. It truly is a wonderful event; if anyone is wondering about going, let me encourage you to do it! The hosts are phenomenal, the variety of trail plants was such fun, and meeting more letterboxers to add to my ever growing list is such a bonus.

And, of course, the soup. I would love the recipe for the Lentil Apple Bacon soup.
Angel Winks

Yep, that’s what happened. I am auto logged in all the time and I guess Atlas felt it was time for me to take a break and kicked me out. 🤣

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Then may I also recommend Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder! My Goodreads review: Effective, quick-moving body horror! It felt like it was a fun series of short stories that were woven together into a pretty cohesive eldrich pastiche. The tie-ins to the Lovecraftian themes were fun and flowed well. If Lucy Snyder ever wanted to run a game of Call of Cthulhu, I would be all in!

I'm always fond of the precocious reader game: What Stephen King book did you read waaay to early? For me it was The Bachman Books then The Dead Zone when I was 12 or 13 years old.