Stressful Day

Ferdinand State Forrest 

I had nothing to do today and the weather was supposed to be in the 50's and I decided to go letterboxing.  It started off to be a bad day.  I went to check on a box and as I was leaving the park I realized that I needed gas.  At the gas station I went to grab my purse and noticed that I did not get my letterboxing bag.  I had spent a lot of time printing clues and maps and totally forgot my bag.

I went home to get the bag and on the way out again I stop to do maintenance on two more boxes.  I get to the next town and I was going to look at my clues at a stop light and I realize that part of the clues were missing.  Now I have to go home again!

I finally have all the clues and my bag and head off.  We get to the first box in Troy and we had no problems finding it.  It was planted earlier this week and we were first finders.  I let the baby crawl around in the car while I did the stamping since it was a drive by.  We loaded up and headed down the road again.  The baby starts screaming so we stop for lunch and he settles down.

The next box we stopped for was actually at the Sandstones of Time event in Cannelton that we went to back in October but couldn't find it.  The event host planted it permanently and we first finders at the new location.  This place already has a box and we found it after the event.

Huffman Covered Bridge 

Then we went to the Huffman Bridge and we could not find the box.  You were supposed to rummage thru a pile of rip rap looking for a rock with a stripe on it.  I didn't see any such rocks and turned over several but found nothing.  

Next we went to Ferdinand to a local park.  There was supposed to be a box but we could not find it.  The clues were very vague, like they forgot to type something.  It was a very nice little park.

The last box we looked for was at Ferdinand State Forrest.  We found this one easily and took a potty break.  I plan on planting a series here for PAL Day.  It is a set of stamps that we used for LTCs that need to be out in the wild.

I had more clues printed off but with the late start we only got 3 of the 5 that we looked for.  I guess that means we have more to look for on another day.