Day off, a Cruise and 7 to go!

I've had a wonderful weekend full of letterboxing activities!!!

First of all, I took Friday off! So, what did I do? I met my husband for lunch, then headed out for some boxes. I found three letterboxes, the first time I have ever gone by myself. Scott and I always go together, except the one time I spent the day boxing with my sister, who was visiting from Seattle. I was even first finder for one of the boxes! It's cool to be first finder, but honestly I like to find them after others have, so I can see who else has found it. The fourth box I went looking for I didn't find, and why was that? Because I didn't know that there were two neighboring towns, each with roads the same name, and it was not the same road. Duh, Gray and New Gloucester each have a Town Farm Road and they aren't any where near each other. So since I drive by the one in Gray every now and then, I figure that's the road. WRONG! I ended up going home and checking on mapquest and see there are two different roads. I'll go looking for that one again sometime soon. But, I got find #'s 83, 84 & 85.

Saturday, the plan was to do a couple of errands in the morning, then head to the 5-hour Cruise Tour event in Saco. Scott had to work in the morning and has been having rebound headaches (he takes meds for tension migraines, but after a while he has rebound headaches from the medication, which are sometimes worse than the ones he's taking the meds for.) He ended up working, then coming home to sleep and hopefully diffuse the headache. I headed out at about 9:30am to pick a couple things up in town, then headed for the turnpike. It happened to be that day that Windham holds Summerfest, so getting around was a mess. I was going to head straight into Portland and jump on the turnpike, but changed my mind and went to Gray to get on the Turnpike there. I was going to be able to kill two birds with one stone, get onthe turnpike and stop at the new Starbuck's at the re-furbished rest area. I ended up being about an hour late to the "Cruise." But it was going until 4, so I figured I could get plenty of time in. Unfortunately for my hosts, there was a very small turnout. They had done a lot of preparations for the event, and six people came. I do have to say, I had a wonderful time!! It was nice to sit and relax and take my time stamping all the event stamps. I got to know my hosts better, and found that we have a few things in common and we know some non-lb people in common. I also got to meet a couple of other letterboxers I hadn't met yet and do some exchanges. I headed home and stopped at a Dollar Tree on the way and picked up twenty of the Lock-n-Lock knock-offs. WoooHooo!

Today, we got up about 8am, with the plan to leave between 9 and 10 to get some more boxes. We are so close to that 100th find. we thought we would pick up the series we had started a couple of weeks ago when it was really hot and the bugs drove us out of the woods. We got two more in the series, but once again we got tired of fighting the mosquitos in the woods. We even doused ourselves in bug spray, but they came after us anyway. So we decided to come back on a cooler day, when we could wear longer sleeves and not sweat to death from the heat. We ended up doing six drive-bys instead. So a total of eight boxes for today!! That's find #'s 86-93!! Woohoo!! Only 7 more to go! We will get them next weekend!!!! The goal is to get them before the end of June!!

On another note, we learned that one of the boxes in a series we planted near my hometown had been muggled. They left everything in the box, except the stamp! What the heck? Why would they just take the stamp. I mean, I've heard that it has happened to others, but it is just so heartbreaking to hear it happened to this series. And to boot, it was the box that everyone loved looking for, because it was in total darkness and you need a flashlight for it in the middle of the day! Oh well, I will re-carve it and re-hide it again over the weekend of the 4th.

Well, off to dream about planting and finding more letterboxes.