It was cut the same way they do but tit didn't come up in the database.

I bet they felt like real boobs. That will teach them to keep abreast of their cutting procedures.

Sadly my cake is day old and a little dried up - oh - so am I. Hope you had a great AQversary BoxerLover47.

If I wasn't working all day today, I'd definitely be participating. The event being held at Walden Pond looks especially interesting!

I was disappointed Florida State Parks are not free.

Yes, and just over the past few years many that had been free started charging, and those that had been charging increased their fees.

I was much happier on a trip to Missouri, where the taxpayers voted to set aside 0.1 cent of their sales taxes to fund the state parks. As a result, their state parks are all free, and they are clearly well-funded. And the park officials aren't having to lobby for adequate funding. That kinda thing needs to be done here in FL and in every other state.

I don't go there enough to make an annual pass worth it.

Things are even worse here. SWMBO is neurotic about such things, so if we spent the money on an annual pass -- even if it was cheap -- she'd be constantly fretting about whether or not we're getting our money's worth out of it. When we are actually in one of the state parks trying to enjoy ourselves, she'd constantly be thinking "Am I having enough fun to justify that annual pass?" Which of course would mean she's NOT having enough fun. So, we never get such passes. Right now, we're waiting until we turn 65 to see if that makes the situation any better.

Here in FL, I have long suspected that the real reason for those admission fees is to keep out the riffraff. We have a lot of riffraff in this state, perhaps because homeless people can live outdoors year 'round without freezing to death. A state park would be a great place to set up a homeless camp since it has nice bathrooms and plenty of woods to hide in.

Star Wars marathon in honor of Carrie Fisher/Princess Leia.

Since there wasn't enough time to set up an official marathon for this, is it inside one already arranged or one set up over social media? Details please.

Found a box that had been 'cached, the stamp replaced with a small mountain bike saddle bag

Unfortunately, except for the specifics of the saddle bag, that's neither odd nor unusual.

Here in FL, I have long suspected that the real reason for those admission fees is to keep out the riffraff. We have a lot of riffraff in this state, perhaps because homeless people can live outdoors year 'round without freezing to death.

Believe me. Entrance fees don't keep anyone out who wants to do such a thing.

65 won't do you any good on state entrance fees, currently there is no senior discount, how ever there is one for veterans. . That's the national parks that have a discounted pass.

I don't think you'd get people in this state to vote on a sales tax increase or anything to go to state parks. They already think their taxes go to the state parks (which they don't) and there's no telling them differently especially when they're upset that something isn't to their liking.

Devon (the Scribe) agreed to a meet and greet. I posted the event listing for this Friday from 5-8 at Blaze Pizza in La Habra.

Blazing Scribe

We would love to but with it being Sunday we will be in church. We will shoot for next year :)

Really hoping to get out this week and get the Ben10 series of 15 boxes: http://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.html?boxId=250551

would really enjoy a letterboxing partner(s) on this one. :) AQmail me if available regardless of whether you have gotten the series already.

I was disappointed Florida State Parks are not free.

I have to admit that I was a bit surprised when I started hanging out in Florida and I had to pay to get into the parks. No wonder I am in love with the Pennsylvania state park system. We pay no fees to enter state parks.

Hmmmmm......a mailbox on top of a post in the middle of the woods, a knife stuck in a tree, what looked like an old car from the 30s that looked like it had almost become part of the ground around it, hardened fungus with a face carved into it....must be more but I can't think of any at the moment.

Oh, it wasn't anything official. We just popped the DVDs on at home with the kids.

What can I say, we're Party Animals!

Missouri State Parks got me into Letterboxing. In the late 90s they had a passport program. You got a book or "Passport" listing all the state parks. Each park was on a page with a photo and brief description of the park and something unique about the park. There was a space at the bottom of each page to log date and time and brief sentence and a blank space. When you got to the park you went to the Park Ranger Office and they would have a stamp to stamp your passport. Sometimes it was the name of the park, sometimes it was an image like someone canoeing or hiking or a physical thing associated with the park like a waterfall or mill. These stamps were made for the parks. Shortly after that a friend got me into geocaching and while geocaching we found a hybrid that had a letterbox. I've been hooked on letterboxing ever since.

Oh, it wasn't anything official. We just popped the DVDs on at home with the kids.

Ah! Not a foot race, but a marathon on TV. That makes much more sense.

Though some sort of official marathon turned into a bunch of people in Space Buns would have been a sight to see. ;-)

yeah I thought the saddle bag a bit pricey for the usual McTrinkets you find.

I don't think you'd get people in this state to vote on a sales tax increase or anything to go to state parks. They already think their taxes go to the state parks (which they don't)...

So, float a ballot initiative for an amendment to the state constitution to the effect that 0.1 cent of the existing sales taxes are earmarked for the state parks, and in concert the admission fees are eliminated. They'd vote for it just to save the admission fees.

State parks is one of the few expenditures that taxpayers don't mind their dollars being spent on.

Not all this year, but a nude Barbie doll nailed to a tree, a closed but unlocked security box just the right size for a human head, a prostitute, a metal road sign and post (standing) with a silhouette of a monster that looked like a cross between Alien and Bigfoot, a woman walking on a dirt road wearing only a short t-shirt, two artistically intertwined deer skeletons, a shot-up 1940s car in the middle of the woods, need I go on?

need I go on?

Yes! Your adventures sound like a hoot!!

I'm sure I've forgotten quite a few more. Maybe some of the other Southeast Michigan boxers out there can jog my memory.

I always cringe when I hear people moaning and groaning about our state parks here in FL. An example is someone will freak over paying $5 (for a car load) to get into Blue Springs State Park or $6 (per person) for Ichetucknee Springs State Park but yet think nothing of $100+ (per person) to a theme park.

While every state runs them differently I would not change a thing about ours.

Our FL State Parks are self funded with the exception of a miniscule percentage of real estate transactions (from doc stamps).

An extra tax may work in some states. But not all. Look at Connecticut. We don't live there anymore but we still visit a couple of times a year and their state park system is in terrible shape.

When we lived there was $8 for residents $10 for non residents but now Hammonasset and Rocky Neck Beaches are $13 for residents and $22 for non residents.

High taxes AND high admission fees yet this past summer they started closing many of their state parks during the week, being open only on weekends and some parks just being closed altogether.

Tomorrow is the last day of the 2016 Year in Review event. Drop by anytime before 6p to get the 38 stamps that were carved depicting the events and people of 2016.

Jiffy and ATVRacer.

Barbie doll nailed to a tree

That's been an LTC theme, more than once.

Shameless plug here for an LTC swap ... Winter Reading List - due date subject to negotiation :)

damn. I need to 'box in Michigan.

I did, BBS, and day old cake tastes just as good.

Southpaw saw a Canada lynx's butt while we were letterboxing on the Quebec/NH border. I was fiddling with my camera and missed it, though.

TomCat found a jawbone in a tree while we were trying to find a letterbox during our road trip.

Was the doll at the Girl Scout camp we went to on Halloween? I remember there were parts of one in one of the boxes.

No, it was in a park along the River Rouge in Canton off US-12.