Drive-by Letterboxing

Cute Card

    On Thursday November 7th Courtney and I embarked on another great letterbox adventure! The only catch was that I had no clue there was a letterbox in my future.(I had hatched the plan the night before, checked my maps and everything. Surprise!!) Courtney arrived on time at ten in the morning and she was sticking like glue to our original plan we had hatched days ago. We were going gift card hunting! We love to collect gift cards and with Christmas just a stones throw away this becomes our favorite time of year. Stores embrace gift cards putting up huge displays and presenting a wide variety of cards you won't see any other time of the year.

We started our quest for gift cards at the Chapel Hills mall and found many new cards. Then we made a side trip over to the Goodwill Store where we both used to work. One of our favorite former mangers, Marilyn was there and we spent some time reminiscing about our time working there and she told us how the store recently changed management. We enjoyed our visit and trip down memory lane. Marilyn had to go back to work and our stomachs were insisting it was time for lunch. So off to Arby's we did go for roast beef and horsey sauce(and in my case Arby-Q and three pepper sauce)! Yum! We chatted as we ate and we enjoyed every bite before we returned to the car and resumed our great gift card search. Our next stop was to be Toys R Us, however, Courtney asked if we could make a quick stop because she had something she wanted to check out. I said I didn't mind, after all she was driving and it wasn't like we had a deadline to reach.

She happily turned off of Academy Blvd and onto a side street and then turned once more into Palmer Park. A quaint little park I've driven by many times but never stopped to get a closer look. She drove a little bit further to the Palmer Park Dog Park and pulled into the dirt parking lot and turned off the the car. I was clueless. Though I had to admit the fenced in dog park full of happy dogs and their owners was a pleasant sight to see I had no idea why she brought me here. She reached behind the seat and like magic she produced our trusty letterbox bag! I didn't even know she had brought it! What a fantastic surprise! "There's a brand new letterbox here; it was planted about a week ago!" she read to me the instructions on how to retrieve this letterbox and I hopped out of the car and went to make friends with a lone boulder. I found the letterbox with ease because it wasn't hidden very well. A little dirty with a cobweb clinging to it but in tact. I returned to the car and enlisted a tissue to remove some of the dirt.

Once the dirt was removed we popped open that Tupperware container and set to work. The stamp inside was hand carved and cute as a button! And to our surprise the logbook had a lot of stamps in from other Letterboxers. For only being a couple of weeks old a lot of people had already made a point to find it. We added our stamp to the log book repackaged it and sealed the Tupperware container. I returned to the boulder and replanted the box hiding it well.

I returned to the car and we drove away giving each other a fist bump and saying "on to the next!" We raved about the cuteness of the stamp and we talked of the other boxes around town we've yet to find. We both agreed we would have to pick a nice day and go find those other boxes. After that moment of letterbox greatness we returned to our gift card collections spree. And when our day was all said and done and Courtney was driving me home we both agreed we had a fantastic day. We got a ton of gift cards and finding a letterbox was like icing on the cake.

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