Letterboxing with AdventurousAcorn

This past weekend, I attended the ...AND!... event hosted by Tree Knocker and Paper Trail. The weather was perfect, which was a pleasant surprise for a November event, and it was so peaceful walking around listening to the leaves falling. I walked with PiggyJaunt, and it was great to catch up and chat. The stamps all had one thing in common, the letters A, N, and D were in the word consecutively. The stamps were carved at such a high-quality level, and everything was clear and clever. I think my favorite stamps of the event were "Propag and a" "Yankee Doodle D and y" or "C and y Shop." The Propaganda stamps featured one of Doctor Suess's Propaganda posters with Hitler on it. The wording was carved so perfectly! The Yankee Doodle Candy was an original image (I believe) of a patriot holding a flag. The Candy Shop was an incredibly detailed image of a candy store. I was highly impressed with the detail of how they carved the candy so small yet clearly. I...

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...