At our Dartmoor Reunion on Saturday, Sue & I and several others were infected with a bad case of the cooties. Don't call the doctor for us yet - these cooties are the letterboxing type! But they did manage to cause a little havoc with those remaining at the reunion late in the day!

While relatively new to the East, it seems that cooties were the brain children of a joint collaboration between Pandora, Iron Bear and Campfire Lady. These cooties are really HH's but with a twist - instead of leaving them in another letterbox, you hide them on the person or in the belongings of another unknowing letterboxer! That's where the infection starts! Now, that receiving boxer is then obliged to do the same - hide this cootie on another letterboxer who is unaware. Adds a completely different outcome to the HH game!




Well, Talking Turtle of the Alphabet Bandits decided to unlease her own little swarm on some unsuspecting Dartmoorites on Saturday. As usual, her carving is superior! I venture to say that she is one of the best carvers on the East coast. And these cooties also have another twist. If you find 4 of them, you email Talking Turtle and she mails out a bonus postal box in the series. Now tell me that this isn't innovative!