When Brian and I moved to the Dayton area, we struggled with finding things to do on the cheap. After a while, a trip to the library became kind of .... routine. So I tried finding something else for us to do and somehow stumbled across Letter Boxing. I checked out some listings on line and found a few clues on how to locate a few of them.
Letter Boxing is a two step project. A person creates a letter box, putting a stamp and usually some folded paper or notepad in a small box and leaves clues online. A person (like me) gets a few clues and heads out, trying to locate the box. For example, our first one found was hidden in the Woodland Cemetery with directions to kind of locate a cement bench with two hats no it. (The hats belonged to the Wright Brothers, who are buried here.) After a bit of searching behind trees and under some mulch, we located the little box. We pulled out the stamp and stamped our book. Then we took my stamp (a teddy bear of course!) and stamped their little notebook and dated it so the owners would know someone had found their hidden treasure! The other stamp found inside this same cemetery was The Old Rugged Cross,
This was the kind of project that we could pull up on the computer and head out to some local place to walk around and find. We found our first two in January 2008, and then our next one after we moved to Arizona was in December 2008. The stamp found was a hand carved stamp of a Happy Gila Monster.
I chalk these experiences as something that Brian did with me because he was always up for something, no matter what weird thing I was thinking of! And it might have seemed a little "cheesey" for a guy to do with his mom at his age (early 20s), but what guy doesn't enjoy a treasure hunt???
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