Spring Break Boxing in Bowling Green

The princess took our selfie at Fort Webb

Yesterday Daddy's Favorite Princess, Lil Ewok, G-MA, and I went letterboxing in Bowling Green, Ky.  My boxing buddy, G-MA, picked us up at 8 am and we headed south.  It started off cool and the 2 hour ride went by quick.  I was in charge of plotting our route and I had many boxes for us to find.  Some local boxers had just planted 10 new ones and we looked for some old ones too.

The first stop of the day was a new two part series that we found very easily.  Then we found an older box.  This box was at Fort Webb and the kids enjoyed all the rocks at the Civil War Earthworks.

Inside the train museum.

Then we moved on to a Historic Train Museum.  It was an interesting place but the clue was really vague and we wasted a lot of time here.  The name of the box was Letters and Boxes.  Finally it hit me that we needed to look for the mail car.  Then it was easy to find.  The stamp was store bought but nice.

WKU

We found a few more boxes and I planted a box in a cemetery while we were there.  One of the boxes we found was on the Western Kentucky University campus.  The campus was very pretty and we ate lunch in their food court.  Another box was located a local pizza joint.  The stamp was great and it had two cool sculptures outside.  Unfortunately, my phone was dead at that point so I got no pics of them.

We got a new box near a local ice cream shop and had to get some ice cream while we were there.  The princess and G-MA got "Petite" sundaes while Lil Ewok and I just got a small scoop.

Ice cream break

The last box of the day was at an old bridge.  We started off looking at the wrong end of the bridge but eventually found the box.  Local legend has it that a young woman fell off this bridge and drowned.  If you stop your car on the bridge she will push you across.  And if you put powder on the back of your car you will be able to see her hand prints. Spooky.  Well, we didn't stop on the bridge.  It actually had a lot of traffic while we were looking and stamping.

Metal truss bridge over Barren River

We looked for 18 boxes and found 16.  One of the ones we couldn't find had two snakes in the hiding spot.  We left two hitchhikers and found none :(  The letterboxes took us to several parks with playgrounds and the kids loved playing while G-MA and I stamped.  We got back home about 9pm.  It was a little windy but a beautiful day to be out boxing :)