Letterboxing with AdventurousAcorn

My husband and I consider letterboxing "our thing" so when we decided to go to the Smokey Mountains this past weekend, we committed ourselves to spend one day of our trip letterboxing. When looking for letterboxes in the area about a month ago, when we were planning our trip, it was pure coincidence that a letterboxing event was being held just 30 minutes away from where we were staying! We (in particular me) were excited about the opportunity to meet some new people that don't live in our area. We are very fortunate to live where we live and to have the letterboxers, our friends, that live near us. Going to events is my favorite part of the hobby, and if I hadn't discovered events, I probably wouldn't have kept letterboxing. Going to events makes letterboxing feel more like a community. The opportunity to meet more people sounded great to me! The event was also a great opportunity to bring some old stamps out of the box to share with new boxers! I brought two o...

  .... Well, I guess technically it was, but let me explain. Geocaching.com is a larger and commonly recognized community by public standards. It's platform is not intended to be secretive and if you've ever met a geocacher, you know that they live and breath their hobby. Don't get me wrong, I've yet to meet a letterboxes that was the same way, but the geocachers are their own animal. Before I even knew about letterboxing, I was geocaching with my mom and dad. The first Geocache I found was with my dad in the mountains of Utah in 2005, I believe. My dad is a geologist and has a knack for adventure, so he when he first heard about geocaching, her was quick to find geocache and we were in the jeep driving to it. I was so young that I don't really remember that many details about the process of getting there. I do, however, remember finding the box. It was an old ammo container hiding under a log and there were trinkets in it-- not geotrash as is commonly found now. I ...