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Re: Would you like to plant at an unusual place?
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Reply to: #1025124 by The Borgas
Jul 21, 2023 8:59am
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Sounds neat. You are only about two hours from us! How have we not visited your elephants yet? 😄
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Reply to: #1025047 by RDHG
Jul 21, 2023 6:56pm
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I planted a box for the Leaning Tower of Niles back in May. It's an exact half sized replica of the original one in Pisa. Would that count as an Oddity? If so, I can just update the name on it and you can add it to your list for IL.
https://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.php?boxId=355437
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Reply to: #1025125 by RDHG
Jul 21, 2023 11:23pm
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The area isn't a huge tourist trap lol. But I do have a few boxes planted in the area, and hope to plant a few more eventually
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Reply to: #1025047 by RDHG
Jul 22, 2023 6:45am
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One big question for me...where do you plant a box in this situation? So much of the time, the oddity is in such a public place. I know you can ask for permission to hide a box at a check-in type desk. But I am wondering about other ideas. Thanks!
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Reply to: #1025118 by RDHG
Jul 22, 2023 12:13pm
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I sent a note to mim because she already has one planted for the Seabees in RI and I invited her to join your collaborative series!

Scorpion and Arch will get planted in the fall - I carve all summer to beat the heat!
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Reply to: #1025125 by RDHG
Jul 23, 2023 6:28am
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I created a photo album with a couple pics of the elephants plus a photo of a "rock flag" near the elephants.

Now I don't know how to share it lol
Mobile Box
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Jul 23, 2023 6:44am
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We travel a lot and are about to plant a temporary box at a national chain restaurant. When we leave, we'll be taking the box with us and planting it at a location of the same chain at our next location. We stay at each location any where from 2 weeks to a couple of months.

What's your opinion on the best practice for listing the box? One box listed with the location changing or list it as a new box each time it moves?

I have a box that I found in Florida and then the planters moved it to Maine. I now have a find in Maine yet I've never been to Maine. It's a bit unnerving for me, but that could just be me, which is why I'm asking the question.

Thanks!
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Reply to: #1025165 by Redefining Normal
Jul 23, 2023 7:18am
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My personal opinion is that, because it "travels" with you. It would be a "traveler", not a traditional plant.
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Reply to: #1025165 by Redefining Normal
Jul 23, 2023 7:46am
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One week on a Monday night chat we had this discussion, and here is what Green Tortuga told us was his opinion.

If you are replanting a traditional box in the same state, then simply change the location and change the clue. If you are replanting a traditional letterbox in a different state, then retire the first listing and make a new listing. His reason for that was exactly what you said. People do not want to have finds in states that they have not even visited yet.

There was a discussion about this on the board one time, and it was pointed out that even though you are replanting the same stamp, you are still doing the work of finding a new location and writing clues and planting the letterbox.

Different people will have different opinions. Those are simply a couple that I have heard or read.
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Reply to: #1025166 by Squatchis
Jul 23, 2023 8:04am
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My personal opinion is that, because it "travels" with you. It would be a "traveler", not a traditional plant.

I'm going to have to disagree with this one. Traveler, short for personal traveler is, by the definition in the glossary, "a special stamp a letterboxer carries, in addition to their signature stamp, but requires other letterboxers to say a secret code or do something special in order to acquire."

We won't be carrying this stamp. It will be planted each time.
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Reply to: #1025167 by RDHG
Jul 23, 2023 8:05am
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If you are replanting a traditional box in the same state, then simply change the location and change the clue. If you are replanting a traditional letterbox in a different state, then retire the first listing and make a new listing. His reason for that was exactly what you said. People do not want to have finds in states that they have not even visited yet.

Thank you!! This is where we were at on it, too, but I wanted to check. Nothing like overthinking, lol!
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Reply to: #1025169 by Redefining Normal
Jul 23, 2023 8:44am
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You can go to your logbook, then the box you found and then use the custom location by changing it to the state you found it. That should move it from Maine to wherever you found it. That’s what people have to do with my traveling box.
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Reply to: #1025171 by BinoBoxer
Jul 23, 2023 8:49am
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You can go to your logbook, then the box you found and then use the custom location by changing it to the state you found it. That should move it from Maine to wherever you found it. That’s what people have to do with my traveling box.

Thank you!! I will try that.
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Reply to: #1025168 by Redefining Normal
Jul 23, 2023 10:52am
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We won't be carrying this stamp. It will be planted each time.

Is this box/stamp really special to you? If it were me I'd carve a new stamp in new locations and leave the older boxes in their original places. Some national restaurant chains lead themselves to multiple images. I'd love to carve a whole series of McDonald's old characters like Ronald McDonald and the Hamburglar and Mayor McCheese, etc.
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Reply to: #1025174 by PI Joe
Jul 23, 2023 12:08pm
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That is a good -- and fun -- idea.
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Reply to: #1025166 by Squatchis
Jul 23, 2023 2:02pm
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Though the boxes are temporary, they are planting and leaving each one at a location, with clues. That’s not a personal traveler.
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Reply to: #1025164 by The Borgas
Jul 23, 2023 3:21pm
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You should be able to get the URL (web site address) for your photos to share. :-)
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Reply to: #1025148 by Warrior Woman
Jul 23, 2023 3:21pm
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That seems like a good plan! It is too hot out there some days.
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Reply to: #1025179 by RDHG
Jul 23, 2023 5:04pm
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Reply to: #1025181 by The Borgas
Jul 23, 2023 5:22pm
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"Not a pink elephant" is a meaningful rock garden.

Aw, those elephants might need a visit. Are they anywhere near Greenville?

Are the two pictures the same elephants? They look the same, yet the backgrounds look different.
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Reply to: #1025182 by RDHG
Jul 24, 2023 7:47am
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The elephant pics are the same, just 2 different angles.
They are off of I-85 (not sure of exit) for 585 Pine Street, follow it all the way through Spartanburg. It turns into 176, and goes into Union County. You'll see the flag on the left and the elephants on the right
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Reply to: #1025166 by Squatchis
Jul 24, 2023 4:23pm
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I dunno. If you follow clues to get the box, wouldn't that just be a temporarily planted traditional box? Then they'd just need to let people know it's a recycled stamp.

If they buy you a beer, and then you ask them for it, or beat them at quarters and they offer it up, then it would be a personal traveler of the very best kind.
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Reply to: #1025144 by Pumpkin Gal
Jul 24, 2023 4:24pm
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A letterboxer here planted one right up the backside of a giant armadillo. Some things you can't unfeel.
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Reply to: #1025197 by Wry Me
Jul 24, 2023 8:50pm
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Ha!!! Well, there is a giant Longhorn in Austin...I guess Austin is not called "weird" for nothing!
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Reply to: #1025201 by Pumpkin Gal
Jul 25, 2023 8:54am
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there is a giant Longhorn in Austin...I guess Austin is not called "weird" for nothing!

The only longhorn that I am aware of here in Austin is the UT Austin mascot, Bevo, and I would not be interested in a similar placement as Wry Me's armadillo and I doubt Bevo would take kindly to that either.
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Reply to: #1025208 by PI Joe
Jul 25, 2023 12:07pm
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Oh, it wasn't me that planted that. It was Yertle & Bulldogger. Cracks me up to this day. Obviously.

You'd make the news. Imagine that. Go ahead. Come up with a headline. I know you want to.
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Reply to: #1025197 by Wry Me
Jul 26, 2023 5:49am
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Wry me, That was a good one!!
Re: Planters wanted
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Reply to: #1024721 by Rebiccola
Jul 26, 2023 3:08pm
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no love for Massachusetts?
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Reply to: #1025231 by Faeth Finders
Jul 31, 2023 11:58am
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I love all observatories no matter what state! Most of the observatories in Massachusetts seem to be associated with colleges and universities, and (at the time I carved these stamps) did not have their own logos or had logos that I couldn't carve.

If you or anyone else feels up to the task of carving an observatory logo from a state that I missed, please feel free to do so and add the box to the tracker! I used this website to locate the different observatories: https://www.go-astronomy.com/observatories.htm
The most promising options for Massachusetts are Blue Hill Observatory, or the MIT Wallace Astrophysical Observatory.
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Reply to: #1024721 by Rebiccola
Mar 27, 2024 2:04pm
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Anyone traveling to Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands this year?
I have a stamp carved for each, that I would love to have planted in these territories. Message me! Thanks!