This blog is for posting my letterboxing related activities and information. It will consist of trip reports, noteworthy accomplishments, particularly memorable days, event wrap-ups, running totals, etc. Basically, if it relates to letterboxing in some way and I felt it worth recording, it is here.

It is also (temporarily) a work in progress. I went through my logbook and made a list of things I "would have written about" had this actually started from day one. What that means is the blog is live starting in August 2007 but most older posts have been (or are in the process of being) recreated based on my memories so may be lacking some specifics. Also keep in mind that because of this some "new" posts may drop into their proper place in the past and you may miss them if you don't check the archive occasionally. Ideally, I will only be doing this backlogging for a couple months but could miss things that are not discovered until AFTER I turn this loose on the world and someone mentions it to me. Anyway, I hope you occasionally find something worth reading here...

Dec-07: Backlog Update - All old posts through August 2005 are done but will not show up on the AQ blog feed due to their old dates. I will try to get the next "year" done soon and hopefully after that, they will be new enough to hit the feed list.

Feb-08: The old monthly stats have been temporarily removed until I catch up the stories since I figure people would rather see them appear on the AQ Blog feed, even when old, than stats only.

--Cory

P.S. Why the charts and graphs? I was a science major in college and like them so wanted to make some. Yes, that is a lame answer. If they bore you, just skip them. They will appear on the last day of every month and my "boxing year (August-31)" with no other info or anything to read so you won't miss anything.

29 June 2005

Bacon (Extra Crispy)

My family decided to rent a house on Holden Beach, NC and invited me to join them as a sort of "meet in the middle" where they drive down from Ohio and I up from Georgia. Well, let me say I had to think hard about it; free vacation, on the beach, all I had to do was drive up and meet them on Saturday afternoon, and I could avoid the "you never come visit us" guilt trip mom lays out from time to time.

Of course, what really happened was that I drove up about halfway Friday after work then spent Saturday boxing around Florence, SC. It turned out that about half the boxes in the area were missing as the four main planters all seem to have vanished. A couple of highlights were noydb's 'Intimidator', which was my first ever First Finder, and Welcome to South Carolina! by Green Tortuga.

After finishing the drive, I spent the rest of the evening at the beach. And got burned. Badly. The next morning I was red, blistered, could not sleep, could not do much of anything other than sit and let the A/C blow on my skin. Yeah, I am pale and burn easily, you think I would know better... Well since I had no interest in being in the sun but was going stir crazy so still looked for a couple of boxes on the island and I checked the weather and saw "cloudy" for the forecast the next day. So I got up really early and of course went letterboxing. I spent the first part of the day around Oak Island, Southport and Bald Head Island before heading back as the late afternoon sun came out and I started feeling my burned skin. Bald Head Island seems like a very interesting place and I would love to return there one day, rent a bike and explore but I was just not in any condition to do that this trip...

So after this day of being outside and not trying to burn any further, I spent the next couple drowning in aloe and reading some books and magazines I had taken before heading home. I did stop for a couple more boxes on the return trip but all in all, found 17, attempted 10 and got my first boxes in both South and North Carolina.

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