Chris Rooney was right.
Maegan and I tried Geocaching last week and liked it despite the fact that we don’t own a GPS device. Chris read my blog entry and suggested Letterboxing instead, so we gave it a try this weekend. We found an easy letterbox online that was nearby and Maegan and I and my mom who was visiting took a very short trail into some woods, followed the step-by-step directions, and found the hidden letterbox behind a large tree about 10 yards off the trail.
A letterbox is similar to a geocache, but instead of signing the log book when you find it, you rubber ink stamp the log book with your own personal stamp, and stamp your own personal log book with a unique custom stamp that is also found in the letterbox. We had neither stamps nor log books since we were just checking it out but it was a lot of fun. I think Maegan and I will probably get ourselves some rubber stamps and log books and try to find more letterboxes in the future.
Thanks Chris.
Good for you guys.
I was actually thinking about you over the weekend, as we did a lot of letterboxing. We found one on Saturday and then went after a series of them on Sunday.
I was planning to e-mail you a couple of letterbox websites to get you started, but it looks like you’re doing fine on your own!