I could always send down a box, but not until after July 17th!

Music Woman

Thanks, Ryan, for the holiday background. Today begins the July 4 holiday. Remember to be careful and safe, and to fly our nation's flag......that represents all the freedoms we enjoy in this country. God bless America!!
zoemomma

Thanks Music Woman! I'll email you!

YC

My Publix, in north metro Atlanta, has pulled their displays and does not seem to carry lock-n-locks anymore. I've had good luck finding letterbox-sized L-n-Ls at Target. Wal-Mart carries some, but usually in too large a size for me.

MoonBunny

okay, so tommorow morning i leave from Ny to florida. unfortunately Via airlines, so i can't catch any boxes along the way. however, i'm spending alot of the time there at disney, and a day or two at crystal beach. i know you take route 5 to get to crystal beach. i'm curios if there are any boxes in any of these areas. i'd try a search but i'm so unfamiliar with the area that its hard to know what i'm looking at. thanks!

~DWM

Hi Sojourner

I tried the link and it didn't work? Does one need to be a member of the yahoo groups in order to have access?

Thanks!
SunFleur

Thanks for the tip! :)

I use Mastercarve and Orange PZ Cut - any suggestions for transfer with those?

SunFleur

Lock Wench - I'm so sorry about your boxes :(

Hang in there! You can do it. Just keep chanting 'Ooommm' with your pinkies up in the air.

I can't do lotus either, but I do sit sort of cross-legged and it seems to help center me.

SunFleur

I'm not in Ohio, but what kind of help are you looking for?

SunFleur

I live in Gahanna, a little suburb of Columbus. And I'd love to help. What do you need me to do?

Thanks, SunFleur and Mn8X for the offers. I need a scout at this point (services I've asked of Mn8X), but I know I'll be need more assistance later.

Sarah

Scout,
I hope your pumping of water was only from your basement. I'm lucky here in West Endicott, to live just far enough from the river and the creek to not have been affected, other than the minor inconvenience of boiling water. When the waters go down, if you need help checking on any of your boxes (that I've found and know where they should be), let me know. I guess we should all be on the lookout for those "hitchhikers" that could end up anywhere!
ringnsing

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"Hide" boxes indoors.

I have a couple of places that would make good *inside* hiding places, museums and such. How do you pitch the idea? and how do boxers find them? Do they have to ask a certain question?

Shiloh

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I had to embrace a more Zen attitude

If that helps great, personally I'd like to go ballistic on them. That would be my therapy. :)

Shiloh

I have a couple of places that would make good *inside* hiding places, museums and such. How do you pitch the idea? and how do boxers find them? Do they have to ask a certain question?

I have an indoor box and the clues lead the searcher to the store, then they must ask for it. In Ohio there is a box in a library.....clues there too, but you wind up having to ask due to the rearrangement of the library. In both cases, ask the place first and they will usually be in agreement. You will probably have to explain about letterboxing though.
zoemomma

oppps. i'd meant clearwater beach. i was kinda posting this just out the door.

And regardless of how you feel about the war in Iraq, think a kind thought for our armed forces there.

Mark

I'm in Delaware County, just north of Columbus.

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and how do boxers find them? Do they have to ask a certain question?

We found an indoor 'box in New Orleans. It was planted in conjunction with a geocache. Using the coordinates for the geocache you had to find the right "person behind the desk" to ask. Well, our GPS was way off that day and we wern't sure if we were in the right building. We were wondering around looking at the GPS and the clue page. Finally we walked up to a "person behind a desk" and said "This is a stupid question, but do you know where we can find the...". She jumped in, "Geocache?" she asked. "I was wondering how long it would take you to figure it out." She said she gets a total kick out of watching people walk around outside the building and in the lobby with a dazed and confused look on their face.

When it came time to "hide" the City of Homes letterbox, I knew where it was going. It just kinda struck me one day (really hard, too). I'm not a regular purchaser at the place, but I'm in there enough that I think I'm recognized. Anyway, I asked if he'd heard of letterboxing. No. Geocaching? Yes. My explanation went on from there, and now the hand-carved, hand-bound hand-sanded and painted letterbox resides in one of the display cases.

To get the box, people have to complete a 13-question quiz about places on the Driving Tour of Homes. If they've got all the answers right, they get the box.

I've found letterboxes indoors as well. At one in D.C., I had to ask the bartender to check the lost and found drawer under the cash register. Then, as I was stamping in over a pint, I had to explain letterboxing.

At one in Fort Myers, I had to ask the proprietor if they happened to have a runcible spoon. At another in Fort Myers, I had to say "Ain't no place like this place, so this must be the place."And at another, I had to say, "We have a reservation under the name of Mr. Colorful Characters." That one took a bit of explaining and finding the manager because the hostesses didn't know what I was talking about.

At the Fox Theatre in Atlanta, you have to do a song and dance about "the Fox Box" and recite the actor's guild secret code... just kidding!

It can be done. It's a lot of fun! Just pick the right place and everyone will have a good time! Plus, you can do it while it's raining! The only catch: business hours.

StarSAELS

Oh, and I REALLY want to put SpaceShipOne - Relaunched! in the flight museum at Warner Robins AFB, south of Macon, GA. Should get a lot of passersby, especially since admission is free!

I'll be in Halifax for a day. Any that aren't posted on AQ?
Ithacabelle

Maybe I'll plant one while I'm at it - we plan to go to Shakespeare in the Park there, and we just did one for the Shakespeare in Delaware Park in buffalo, ny.

just to let Y'all know that the clues for Dixie Boot Tracks LB has been released to the public!!

Thanks Wolf Family for making my stay in Charlotte last weekend a bit more rewarding and I am glad you found Boot Tracks fun!!

:-)

DixieKin

Hi there.

Was in Halifax in May.

The Backpackers Hostel LB is easy to get to in downtown Halifax. Royal Halifax is about 5 -10 miles north. Afraid that's about it.

The rest of the NS boxes are primarily in Cape Breton, and scattered throughout the NS mainland. (We've done them all except Yarmouth).

Cheers, Jiggs

sorry. here is the link
http://www.atlasquest.com/lboxes/showboxinfo.html?gBoxId=17291

Thank you. Currently, Mn8X is doing some scouting for locations at parks around the Columbus Convention Center. Everything is taken care of for now, but it's good to know I can call on peoples.

Absolutely. I know little to nothing about Zen, but I do know that while a letterbox can in principle last for decades, it also can be gone in a moment -- due to malicious people, careless people, animals, floods, bulldozers, any of a dozen other causes over which we have no control. You know that when you plant it, and yet you do it -- because you know that while it lasts, it provides enjoyment.

In the final analysis all art is ephemeral. Only the time scale varies. Which isn't to say it's not a sad thing when a letterbox is lost, only that this is the way of things. Say goodbye, then carve another.

Dead on, Doc. You said it better than I could.

LW

Very well said...............z

As many of you know Jdog is my 9 year old daughter. She currently has a box that she would like to see planted out of state. She thinks that it would be fun to send it somewhere far away. Is anyone interested in helping this little boxer??
hawkeye