About 2 weeks ago, my boxing buddy and I went back to Shakamak State Park. We attended an event there in May but only found half the boxes.
I dropped the kids off at school, got gas, picked up G-MA, and we headed north to the park. Shakamak is about 2 hours away. We had talked about going back a few times but had to wait for good weather. We ended up finding 33 of the 37 boxes we looked for. I left a hitchhiker and G-MA gave me a few that she had.
Western Event Stamp
Teacup and mudflinginfools are hosting a western event and asked for stamps. I carved these three and I'll be sending an older stamp. They asked that we wait until after October 1st to send them. I need to get them packaged up and in the mail before they get burred and I totally forget :)
We had a great time at the Inaugural Walk in the Park event. This is supposed to be an annual event at different state parks around Indiana. G-MA picked up me and Daddy's Favorite Princess at 7 am and we made the 2 hour drive north to Shakamak State Park.
It had been a long time since I had been here. The first part of the morning was wet but the trails were beautiful. There were dogwood trees blooming everywhere along with wildflowers. We also saw a few areas with lily pads.
Beautiful Park
We checked in at the cabin, dropped off our food & table tops, and hit the road. Since it was sprinkling, we did the series of drive by boxes first. We still had a little bit of time before lunch and stopped and grabbed 2 boxes of one series.
We went to the cabin for lunch and stamped a few table top boxes. G-MA doesn't like this type of boxing so we didn't stay long.
Walk in the Park Event
There was one set of boxes on a paved path and we went after those next. They were really cute camping themed stamps. Some of the right/lefts were wrong but we still found all the boxes. After that we went back to the car and took off on a trail in another direction. It had some super cute alien stamps. We even found a stamp planted in 2007!
At this point G-MA was pretty tired so we went back to the cabin. We stamped some more table tops, exchanged, talked, and packed up our stuff. On the way out I planted a box for Star Wars Day (May the 4th be with you!). We also stopped at a cemetery where I got a box from 2010 that G-MA already had. We ate at Arby's on the way home and I took a nice warm shower after logging all my finds.
Silly camp store sign :)
The event was great! We ended up with 35 traditional boxes. I heard that some people couldn't find one here or there but we found every box that we looked for. We left some hitchhikers on the trail and took some new ones from a hostile. I had a postal waiting for me in my mailbox when I got home :)
My boxing buddy, G-MA, and I have been talking about going to Louisville all year. We made plans to go 3 times and each time we canceled due to rain.
I always plot the course for our trips and I realized that G-MA had been to Louisville without us. I was looking at boxes in Cave Hill Cemetery and saw that she already had some. I assumed that she had all the boxes there so Daddy's Favorite Princess and I went over on Presidents Day and got all the boxes at Cave Hill and a small cemetery next door.
Cave Hill Cemetery on Easter Monday
When I got home and started logging the boxes I realized that G-MA didn't have all the boxes there. Oops. So, when we finally went together we had to go back to Cave Hill so we would both have all the boxes there.
Most of my kids were out of school on Monday, I took the day off, and G-MA, the princess and I went to Louisville. We left at 8 am and traveled 2 hours.
We started off in Cave Hill Cemetery and the small cemetery next door. We performed maintenance on my box and went to lunch. Then we slowly started heading south stopping at cemeteries and parks to get boxes.
Calvary Cemetery
After a while we decided to go downtown and look for just a few more boxes before heading home. Downtown was very busy and we were not able to find the boxes we looked for there. We stopped for ice cream and then looked for one more box on the riverfront. The riverfront park was so busy we thought there was no way the box was still there. But we were pleasantly surprised to find it. It was a great way to end our trip.
When we were done there we headed back home. There is a rest area box along the way that I need but the rest area is currently closed :(
We arrived home at 8pm. Altogether G-MA found 15 while the princess and I found 23. We found and left a few hitchhikers on both trips and I planted a box on the second trip.
2018 is the year of Illinois Bicentennial. TeachJR posted an event asking people to celebrate by planting boxes. I decided that I would do 3 and a bonus *spoilers*. I carve my stamps, make the logbook, get the boxes together, and plant. One week later I get a message that 2 of the boxes were missing. I think this person is crazy, they have to be there. So I drive an hour back to the park just to check and they were missing.
What do you do? Retire? Re-carve? I decided to re-carve and add a box to the bunch. I left 2 boxes on the trail, re-carved, returned to plant, and guess what happened? One of the first boxes was gone! I think the park is cursed! What is with people? Do they have nothing better to do in rural southern Illinois? I'm not going back. I'm done. Get them while you can because I will not re-carve those.
Last box of the day selfie :)
Did I mention that G-MA and I drove over there today. I picked her up about 1:30 and we drove an hour to the park. I grab my bag of boxes and we take off to the trail. As we walk up to the trail head a family is exiting the woods. They mention that the mosquitoes are bad and we will need bug spray.
G-MA has some in her bag and we start spraying. As we are standing there we are attacked by them! It was worse than yesterday! G-MA says she is not going. I run off to plant the boxes that I have re-carved and discover that one of the others is missing :( Unless someone else plants a few boxes in that park, I will not be back. It has been nothing but trouble. >:(
My original boxes planted in Ill
When we are done, we head to Grayville. There were 5 boxes that I needed and 6 that G-MA needed to find. We start at a cemetery that has 2 new boxes. We struggle with the planters description of the tree. We even text someone for help. I looked in one tree and G-MA looked in another. We decided to switch and she looks in my tree and I look in her tree and we each find the box the other person was looking for! It's a good thing we box together :)
We had no problems finding the rest and had an enjoyable ride back home. For the weekend, we found 29 boxes and left a few hitchhikers.
Yesterday, G-MA, Daddy's Favorite Princess, and I went back to Scales Lake. If you don't recall, it was the location of the 2018 GLG. This was our 4th trip back to the park and we now have all the official boxes planted for the event. I think there are a few other boxes planted by people who attended the event that we have not gotten.
G-MA and I drove separate to the park and arrived a little before 9 am. We knew that the first trail we were walking would be long. I parked my van at the end of the trail and G-MA drove us to the start of the trail. The weather was beautiful and cool. We debated if we should wear jackets or not. We were looking for a Star Wars series and found all of the boxes but one. There was a bonus, which was nice since we could not find a box. We also found a geocache close to one of the boxes. We looked for 16 and found 16.
After the Star Wars series we left for lunch. We went to a local diner that had a letterbox outside but we had already found it. Then we went back to the park and tried to figure out where to park the second car for an easy exit of the trails. We ended up walking in and back out.
Cool fungi
This time we searched for the Famous in Indiana series. The temp had risen and the mosquitoes were out in full force. We struggled to find many of the boxes. Landmarks had changed in the short period of time and the wording of the clues was often an issue. The stamp in the first box was missing and there was another box that we could not find. We ended up with 8 out of 10 in this series.
While we were there I planted a box at a cemetery just outside the park. This would have been my campsite stamp if I would have been able to camp. But I was just too busy the weekend of the GLG and it was miserably hot. After all the boxing we stopped to get ice cream to celebrate G-MAs 10th AQversary and her recent birthday.
G-MA and I went back to Scales Lake today, the location of the GLG. We still had 30 boxes we needed to get from the event. There were also about 12 boxes in the area, planted by boxers who attended the event.
We got some of the boxes on the way to the park and started the, "Teddy Bear Trail." We had heard that this was the most strenuous trail in the park. It was tough. There were 2-3 places where I had to pull G-MA up the hills. They probably should not have planted on this trail.
After finishing this trail we went back to town for lunch. We grabbed a few more boxes on the way. While stopped for lunch we discussed our plan of attack. We went back to the park for 3 more boxes that were planted by folks who attend the event. By now it is 3pm and my kids are texting me about what to do for supper.
G-MA and I decide to leave the park. We get a few more boxes as we leave town. I ended up with 16 boxes today. Our plan is to come back again right when the park opens. We will get an early start and tackle the longest trail first. Then we can leave for lunch, cool off, and start again. We have 25 boxes to go. I think I may take one with me to plant just for fun :)
I totally forgot to make a blog post for the Great Lakes Gathering (GLG). Daddy's Favorite Princess, G-MA and I rode to the event together. I just got a new van so I drove. It was at Scales Lake, Boonville, Ind on Saturday, June 30th.
The day of the GLG was the hottest day of the year. It was miserable and it looked like a lot of boxers stayed inside and stamped table tops. My boxing buddy, G-MA, doesn't like table tops. We checked in, dropped off our food, left behind my table tops, and hit the road.
We started off looking for the petting zoo series; we struggled with where the trail even started. The series was entitled, "Around the Barn" but the boxes where no where near the barn/petting zoo. We finally find the correct trail and realize that G-MA left her boxing bag at the event pavilion. So, we go back, grab her bag, and get going again. We ended up walking the petting zoo trail with two other boxers and it was nice to spend time with them.
When we were finished with that series we went back for lunch. The place was a ghost town. We stamped a few table tops and went out again. There was a trail that left from the shelter house called, "Fairies and Gnomes, Oh my!" I enjoyed the stamps but we struggled finding some of the boxes. We ended up going back and finding them later that day.
After that we went back to the pavilion again to restock our water, rest, and stamp a few table tops. The hosts had planted a series of drive by boxes in the park. It was very nice to have these boxes on such a hot day. This series was called, "Aloha! From Indiana" and we found two of the stamps I donated.
We are locals living about 40 minutes west of Scales Lake. Daddy's Favorite Princess was supposed to be at a birthday party at 6 and G-MA and I were very tired. We went back to the pavilion to pick up our leftover food, gather table tops we brought, and say good bye. At the shelter I was ambushed! I had one boxer say she would not leave without exchanging with me. I felt like a celebrity with all the boxers asking to exchange with me :)
I think we found 34 traditional boxes and only took 1 picture. The birthday party that the Princess went to was a pool party. I was very happy to sit in the corner and cool off. I had a head ache the rest of the evening.
Back in the fall, my boxing buddy was telling me about giant stuff she saw on TV in Casey, Ill. I saw it too and said we had to go in the spring. My kids are on Spring Break this week so I took off one day to box and one day to clean. On Tuesday G-MA, Puppy Love, Daddy's Favorite Princess, and I ventured up to Casey.
According to Atlas Quest there were no boxes in Casey but one nearby in a place called Moonshine. It didn't look too far out of the way so we stopped. Moonshine is famous for their Moonburger. We all had one, got a tshirt, and looked for the box. We couldn't find the letterbox but enjoyed our short time there.
World's Largest Rocking Chair
We got out on the road and finished the trip to Casey. It was probably 2.5 hours away and it rained almost the whole way up. Our first stop was the World's Largest Wind Chime and World's Largest Rocking Chair. The rocking chair is huge! It was my favorite big thing :)
We also went up in the World's Largest Mailbox. We mailed a few letters and postcards from there. The flag on the side slowly goes up when you drop your mail in a slot at the top. In the Candy Depot directly behind the mailbox is the World's Largest Wooden Shoes. While we were close, we checked out a big bird cage and pencil.
Big pencil and World's Largest Mailbox
Then we got back in the car and drove to the country club to see the World's Largest Golf Tee. And drove a little further to see the World's Largest Pitchfork. I planted 4 boxes in town- at the rocking chair, mailbox, golf tee, and pitchfork. Casey is a very clean place and I hope the boxes last a while for folks to find them.
The Princess @ the
sculpture park
We drove down the interstate to Effingham to get a few boxes. We looked for 4 and found 3. Then we went on to Mt Vernon, Ill and got two boxes at an art center and sculpture park. We arrived at the sculpture park 30 minutes before it closed. We had a good time finding the boxes but wish we would have had more time to explore.
We had dinner at a Steak and Shake in Mt Vernon and plotted our trip home. We couldn't decide if we should stop for rest area boxes on the way home or not. It was raining again and we passed them by. We did stop in Carmi at a cemetery in the dark, and in the rain to grab a box that I already had, but my boxing buddies needed. The princess kept saying zombies were going to get us for being in the cemetery at night.
Even thought it rained most of the day we had a great time. We got to see some really cool stuff. I found 5 boxes, planted 4 and a hitchhiker. It was a wet day but a lot of fun :)
Here is the story we saw about Casey on CBS Sunday Morning:
And here is Bill Geist, CBS Sunday Morning and his visit to Moonshine:
Yesterday my boxing buddy and I went on a boxing adventure in Kentucky. We found all 17 boxes that we looked for <3
We found a box in Hanson and Madisonville. Then we got a 7 box series in a small rural cemetery in Dawson Springs. I think got poison ivy here. Thankfully it is just a small line on my arm.
Next we got another set of 7 in a Hopkinsville cemetery. We had lunch at Arby's while we were in the big city ;)
My boxing buddy, G-MA, said there was another box that we needed to get. I pulled up Hopkinsville on my phone and didn't see anything. So she pulled it up on her phone. The box she was talking about was a box that I planted. She was with me the first time I planted it. It went missing and the next time we went to Hopkinsville I replaced it. She was with me both times I planted it but for some reason she never stamped it. So we stopped and she got it. Technically I got 17 and she got 18.
Dawson Springs
The last box of the day was in Fearsville, Ky. The clue was a rhyme and vague. G-MA and I are both bad at this kind of thing and almost didn't go for it. But it was still early and we gave it a try. It was easier to find than we thought it would be. G-MA was hoping there would be a sign in Fearsville so we could take a pic but the place was so small that there was no sign.
It was really hot but we found all the boxes we went for and a hitchhiker. When we stopped to find my box we discovered that 2 other boxers from SW Indiana were also in the area on the same day. Funny coincidence :)
Yes, my one thousandth letterbox! Yesterday, my boxing buddy and I went down to Bowling Green, Ky. I needed 11 boxes for 1000 and I printed off 13 clues.
Soap box race track near a letterbox
The ride down was nice but we started our boxing expedition with issues. The first box we were looking for was planted in February, was last found in May, and we couldn't find it :( I shot the owners an AQ email asking for a hint and they responded. We were already down the road so we decided to try again on the way out of town. If you remember my last blog post about Bowling Green, you may remember that while we were boxing that day two boxes were planted while we were there. This was one of those boxes.
Beautiful water area in a cemetery
We did well on most of our finds. One of the boxes was under a light skirt at a local library. The area where the box was was fenced off because of construction. The workers were on lunch when we came and we asked them if we could get the box. They said yes, when we returned the box I gave them a muggle card. They seemed interested in our "scavenger hunt".
One of the boxes we looked for was gone. The tree that it was planted in was cut down. I had a box in a nearby cemetery and we checked it while we were close. The tree was covered in vines and I couldn't find it. But other boxers had so I left it as active. We also planted a new box in the same cemetery across the street.
We kept boxing. My 1000th find was the second box in a 2 box series where the stamps were carved by Kirbert. I have sent my gauges off to Kirbert to be sharpened a few times so I was excited to find some of his stamps.
My 1000th find!!
Once we had tried all the clues I took, we went to the first one we missed. The planters checked on the box on their lunch break and left an item on the rock we were supposed to look under. There were so many rocks in the area I think we would have never found it without their help.
We found 12 boxes and I now have 1001 finds. We left two hitchhikers and found none. On our way back we drove thru a patch of rain and saw a bright double rainbow :) We had lunch in Bowling Green and stopped in Owensboro on the way home for dinner & dessert. Our next trip will be to Owensboro to get two boxes there.
I have found a few letterboxes in Kentucky labeled "Super Hero Series." It looks like back in 2008 Kentuckian boxers went out and planted boxes with a super hero theme. I thought it would be cool if boxers across Indiana would do something like this.
I got on the message boards and we decided on National Library Day, April 11. I got busy and made 2 boxes. I carved the stamps, made pouches, logbooks, containers, etc. They sat on the corner of my desk for a month all ready to go. I was going to plant one in the library in Mount Vernon, just west of Evansville. The other would go in a Little Free Library at the northern end of Vanderburgh County.
Bad selfie with letterbox
My boxing buddy, G-MA, doesn't carve and she doesn't like to plant but I suggested that she ask a family friend, Wise Wanderer, to make a box for her. Wise Wanderer lives in Washington and sends boxes to G-MA from time to time. But she was not able to this time. I decided that I would make one. There is a Little Free Library just a few doors down from one of G-MAs kids. I got on the LFL website, got the email of the owners, and got their permission to plant the box.
My 1st two Hoosier Library Boxes
While I was on the LFL website I noticed a new LFL in Evansville and I had to make a box for it too. My boxes doubled in a day. I planted three of them on April 10th and one on April 11th. I now have a box in every LFL in Evansville.
After planting all my boxes, I talked with G-MA and she said that she tried to talk to the owners of the LFL near her kids house but no one answered the door. It would have been funny if we both planted a box there.
My last two Hoosier Library Boxes
I planted 4 boxes and didn't take a picture of a single location! I must be loosing it. I did take pics of my stamps.
The boxer who took my spot in BOTM planted a box for Hoosier Library Day and I did get a pic of that. It is at a new reading path at a local park. I wanted to get me & the kids with the signs in the background but that didn't work out.
Some people said that they would be late planting their boxes for the event. So far we have 7 :)
My boxing buddies and I went down to Bowling Green, Ky on Saturday. G-MA and Puppy Love picked me up around 8:30 and we headed out of town.
Bowling Green is about 2 hours southeast of us. A new box had also been planted in Hartford and we stopped to get it on the way. This box is what prompted our trip. G-MA saw the new box come up and asked if there were any other boxes there. I told her that if we were going to Hartford we would have to go to Bowling Green too.
G-MA
The weather started off a little cool but it was nice. We looked for 17 boxes and found 16. A few years ago G-MA and Puppy Love went to Bowling Green without me (what?!) and they got one of the same boxes. So it was 16 for me and 15 for them. We left 3 hitchhikers and found 4, wow!
You might recall, that G-MA, Daddy's Favorite Princess, Lil Ewok, and I boxed in Bowling Green last spring. We got 16 boxes that day too :) On that day we got a box at an ice cream place and we talked about finding it again to get some more ice cream but couldn't remember where it was.
Once we were on our way back to Evansville, I looked up Atlas Quest on my phone, and the Bowling Green boxers planted 2 new new boxes while we were there! One was for the Bowling Green Massacre and one at an ice cream place. I guess we need to make going to Bowling Green an annual trip :)
I really enjoy the GypsyLadybug's Hitchhiker Hustle swaps. I commented to her a few months ago that she needed to host one again. With these you make a HH and use the stamp to make LTCs. You send both off and you get one of each LTC and a new HH :)
My card is called "Barn Quilt" and it is pretty simple. I tore paper for the clouds & grass. I had a tough time designing the barn. It took me a few tries to get the angles on the roof just right. I glued it all together with a glue stick.
The county just to the north of mine (Gibson) has a Barn Quilt Trail with 212 quilt squares. Last year my boxing buddy and I were boxing at their visitor center and I got the map for the trail. My boxing buddy joked that I should plant a box for every one!! That is impossible but I am thinking about planting a few. As of right now, I am not doing Box of the Month in 2017 and will plant one quilt square every month. I was also thinking of challenging fellow boxers to plant some too. This is totally on the back burner for now but I will let you know if I do it ;)
Back to the Hitchhiker Hustle...I made the logbook for my hitchhiker and sewed the pouch for the stamp. Have I showed how to make these little books before? I like using them for HH & Fleas.
You need a square piece of paper. For this one I used 10 x 10. You fold it in half and fold the outer parts to the middle. You will have 4 long sections.
Then spin your paper around and do the same thing again. Fold the paper in half and fold the outsides to the middle.
When you are done with this step you have 16 squares. To make it easier to see I marked where to cut with a black marker. Cut the outer folds to the last fold. Then you spin it around and cut the middle fold to the last fold. That's easy, right?
Then you fold it all up. I found one of these at an event and I had to copy it. I think it had a ribbon tying it all together. Sometimes I do that too.
Anyway, I only had one pic for this blog entry and I thought I would spice it up a bit.
PS-Don't look at the mess on my desk. I recently threw away a stamp in a pile of scraps. Thankfully no one took out the trash right away :D
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 :)
On Saturday, my boxing buddy (G-MA) and I went to the Tombstone Tales event in St Louis, Mo. I picked her up at 7 and we drove 2.5-3 hrs to Bellefontaine Cemetery.
We arrived about 2 hours before the event to get the 2 large series of boxes planted there. One of the series was easy to find. They went along with the different symbols used on graves. It was a very interesting series.
The other series was harder. You were supposed to do your homework before you came to find the boxes. But I had jury duty last week and my buddy didn't realize that there was homework. And we discovered that we probably could not have found them anyway because we didn't have the right map.
So it maybe "slackboxing" but we would stop anytime we saw other people stopped. Some folks were very helpful and said come on over and stamp on the back of my car. And other folks said let us put it back and then you can find it. When we stopped another car for help they just said I think it is over there somewhere :(
With all the issues we had with the clues, I was surprised that we actually found more than half of the hard series.
The event itself was just 2 hours. We had a pitch in lunch and exchanged. I really enjoy this part but I know G-MA does not. She would rather be out boxing. I got my exchanges quickly and we got out of there. I got to exchange with wandaandpete! We ended up leaving before the group photo but we were both ok with that.
I am now officially a member of the "Been Locked in a Cemetery" club. The cemetery closed at 5 but we thought with the event they would be open longer. We arrived at the gate a little after 5 and it was locked. We called the number and about 15 minutes later (we should have got another box) the security guard came and let us out. I guess she was out driving around the cemetery to see if anyone was locked in. When she arrived there was another car with her that I had seen driving around taking pictures.
We found 26 boxes in 5 hours and are determined to come back and get more :)
Today my 2 younger kids, my boxing buddy, and I boxed in 3 states- In, Ky & Tn.
So there are some folks in Hopkinsville, Ky (about 1 1/2 hrs south) that have been boxing up here a lot lately. I was thinking that even though there is only one box there I should go there and plant a box for them. But before I could they planted a new box in Hopkinsville. So this meant that I really had to go down there!
Getting ready to stamp at the round table
The two boxes there were both on a college campus. They were easy to find and fun. My kids loved playing with the sword and the stone. The princess was determined that we could pull it out. When we found the box there we stamped in at the round table and then played around at the amphitheater.
After playing for a while we left to plant my box. I knew that I wanted to put it at a military memorial park. It was bigger than it looked on Google maps. We walked around for a while, planted, and found two geocaches. When we left the park we had lunch and a potty break.
Statue selfie
Then we continued south and found two more boxes (and one geocache) in Clarksville, Tn about 30 minutes south of Hopkinsville. These were cool boxes too in neat locations but they needed maintenance. We replaced all the baggies in the boxes today except for the new box.
Now for the 2 hour trip home. The kids were pretty fussy and the princess napped for a little while. She would have napped longer but Lil Ewok kept yelling at her.
Memorial Park
When we got back to town we dropped the kids off at home and looked for a new box planted by a geocacher. This is his third letterbox/hybrid. So far I'm not impressed. He left a clue for letterboxers but it was very vague. I am pretty sure we were in the right spot but couldn't find it.
We had a pretty good trip. It sprinkled early but it cleared up and was nice. Now if I can get my kids to act better on car trips.
A few months ago my boxing buddy, G-MA, asked me about boxing out of town. We both have all the boxes in Evansville and have to travel to get more. G-MA is trying to find her 800th box by the end of the year. She asked if I would be interesting in going to Louisville. That sounded good to me so we set a date.
The stamp I planted.
I was in charge of getting the clues together and as I went through the Louisville boxes online I started to panic. Many of the boxes were old and had not been found since 2011. I thought this is going to be a complete waist of time and that we were not going to find anything.
I have never seen stained glass
memorials like this before. There are
several in Louisville.
We left Saturday morning at 7 and arrived in Louisville at 9 (our time) and started our adventures in Cave Hill Cemetery. We spent our morning here and I planted a box here too. Most of the boxes we looked for we found and it was a beautiful place to be. I was also worried about the cemetery being really busy due to the holiday weekend but it was not.
G-MA, Lil Ewok, and I left the cemetery about 1 and ate lunch at Mc Donalds. We got lost after lunch but we also boxed in Eastern Cemetery, St Louis Cemetery, Calvary Cemetery & St Michael's Cemetery. It was really convenient that these cemeteries were all close.
The Conrad-Caldwell House.
For our last boxing stop of the day we went to The Conrad-Caldwell House. It is an old Victorian home/museum and the box was planted by some folks who had traveled 2234 miles from Sacramento, Ca. It was a fun stamp and location. And while we were there a sky writer was making a message in the sky. We were busy stamping and didn't see all the message. But it was interesting.
When we were done there we headed back to Indiana. We had dinner at the Cracker Barrel in Corydon and then finished our trip home. We found 13 boxes and had a great time.
