Tumblr letterboxing

Found this on tumblr, when I was searching letterboxing and checking out stamps. I'm still not sure what to make of his review of the event he went to. Everyone I've met is lovely so far.

Chattanooga

Jagil and I went to Chattanooga Wednesday. It was fun to finally box out of state- more fun just to spend the day together doing stuff. It was a lot colder than we expected, too. I need to bring an actual wool hat next time- instead of acrylic- and my Rose Tyler gloves did a good job for my hands, but not my fingers. We started at the Tellus Museum, which I've never actually been to. Need to get on that.

Next we went to the riverfront, which was cold and windy and beautiful. We started after a box and gave up after an hour or two. However we solved the clues it looked like it was going to be a nightmare getting to it. Try again later.

Then we went to Greenway Farm Park which was a lot bigger than we thought. There's a farm and some kind of occult looking tennis court- there were these stone pillars around it that made me think "Blood Stone Circle"- and a quarry and some tough hills. The quarry was great, never hiked in one before and besides all the danger signs it was really lovely. Not the best day count-wise but it was fun to travel and solve different clues and see different stamp art. Planted five boxes.

 

This had to be the best sign in the park. Squirrels live in houses, too. 

 

And then we wound up going to a burger place- Urban Stack- which was pretty good. We had three different waiters- all cute- and they had a whiskey menu the size of the regular menu. I could have killed for a Stongbow but all they had was Woodchuck and I wasn't feeling something sweet right then so oh well. Had a great steakhouse burger and the mac and cheese was alright. Jagil had the sweet potato fries which were crisp as hell. I had to take pictures of a few of the drinks on the menu, just because.

 

And our last waiter, the one that looked all lumberjack-y brought me this much creamer and sugar when I joked I was going to have eight cups of coffee with my meal. 

Scenery

Taken the first night I went Letterboxing.

 Red Top Mountain, Cartersville, Georgia.

 One of the parks near Atlanta, can't think which right now. Abandoned mill buildings.

 Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield, Burnt Hickory side.

Cemetery humor, I guess. I realize it's probably slave graves or no markers, but I was looking for a box right then and it can't be over there, that's full.

Wild Animals While Letterboxing

I've only been letterboxing since April 2013 so it's been a pretty good start to the hobby- I'm at almost three hundred boxes now. In that time I've spent a lot more time in the woods than I have before. I hiked for exercise mostly, but never anything like this. I tried geocaching once and wasn't impressed. Seemed like a lot of work for McDonald's toys. Since April I've seen a good bit of woodland creatures, too. Mostly squirrels and chipmunks, but a few other, unsettling things. 

Saw this guy several times, in the same spot on Kennesaw Mountain.

And this in Bells Ferry Park. First of many, many scorpions on letterboxes. Weird that I'd never actually seen one in the wild until recently- now I think I've seen about ten.

And this guy was up at Red Top Mountain, Cartersville, Georgia.