Gobbling Up the Boxes

For Thanksgiving, Artemis and I went to visit the family in Ohio. So of course, as part of our new hobby, we had to find time to do some letterboxing. As you may remember from the first entry, the small town in Ohio we were travelling to actually has a surprising number of boxes listed.

Our first 'out of state' box was one we stopped for on the way to my mother's. It is actually located at the Native American burial grounds next to where I went to high school. We also spent some time that day at the main city park, finding five more there and failing to locate two others. That actually means for the third time in three letterboxing outings, we set a personal one day record for finds.

The next day was Thanksgiving and we went to spend it with Grandma/Mom (Diane is my aunt for those who may not know). Granny lives out in the country and her property backs up to a state park. Well, as luck would have it, a few boxes were planted there so we went looking for them, dragging along some of the relatives who wanted to see what it was all about. We were able to find all three of them between meals then went back to gorge ourselves on food some more.

The next day, it was cold and windy. We decided to spend the day at a cemetery overlooking the town that had the largest concentration of boxes in the area. This also introduced another new boxing experience for us; juggling clues. There were eight boxes in the cemetery and six different starting points so we spent some time surveying as well as backtracking as we worked out the clues. Another thing I learned here, which I do not like, is that when the clue says 'take a reading of 127 degrees and go 64 paces' it is next to impossible to maintain the heading over that kind of distance!!! Combine that with the fact it was too cold to even take our gloves off to stamp and there was an annoyance factor mixed in today. One other "Note to Self" moment would be don't wear your good leather gloves to letterbox in the winter since digging in them is not really something you want to do... However, in spite of some struggles, we were able to find all eight boxes there which we looked for, again setting a new personal one day record for finds.

So for the trip, which was a couple partial days of boxing mixed in with visiting the family, we found 18 boxes!!! and were unable to locate only 2. We also upped our record for boxes found in a day twice, 7 followed by 8. The other oddity is that now we actually have found more boxes in Ohio than in Georgia, which is kinda funny to me... I am sure that won't last too long.