Letterboxing Week - World Wide event!!

The week of July 10, 2011 is known as Letterboxing Week. It runs through July 16, 2011.

If you want to participate in this event try to find as many letterboxes as you can during the week of July 10, 2011!

Then, between July 17 & 24, you send an email to EnergyStar with the number of letterboxes you found during the week and the names of the boxes you found. (Must be a member of atlasquest.com to send this email - info at the website linked through Letterboxing Week)

Your email must be in by July 25 and the results will be ready the following Thursday. If you win, your name will be announced on Atlas Quest. Also, the winner receives a prize.

Please contact all your friends on Atlas Quest and tell them about this exciting week!


Send questions to EnergyStar with the subject "Letterboxing Week Questions".

Also, please sign up by Saturday, July 9.

I so gotta try this!!!  May not win, but will have a blast finding letterboxes!!!

Letterboxing -- Just learned about them and gonna try as soon as the rain stops!!

Letterboxing is an intriguing “treasure hunt” style outdoor activity. Letterboxers hide small, weatherproof boxes in publicly-accessible places (like parks) and post clues to finding the box online on one of several Web sites. However, clues to finding some of the most highly-sought boxes are passed around by word of mouth. There are about 20,000 letterboxes hidden in North America alone. Individual letterboxes usually contain a log book, an often hand-carved rubber stamp and may contain an ink pad. Finders make an imprint of the letterbox's stamp on their personal log book, and leave an imprint of their personal stamp on the letterbox's logbook .


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Sounds interesting, kinda like geocaching, but no GPS is needed!!!!!  As soon as the rain stops I think I'm gonna go check it out. 

When I did a search at the letterboxers.com website the closest letterboxes listed were in Lake County almost an hour away. 

Then I looked up Letterboxers on my iPhone and found an app called 'BoxFinder' that connects to AtlasQuest.com another letterboxers site.  It showed a number of local letterboxes!!  By Golly I downloaded that app rite away -- it was only $1.99 (Guess I could have found the info if I had looked up atlasquest.com, but having it on the iPhone makes it really handy out in the field)


Now to get to work on a stamp repesenting me!!!!