Letterboxing with Mark & Sue: Soggy Waffles & More!

Mark & Sue Pepe hail from Kensington, CT USA.

After finding our initial box in June 2002, we have since found letterboxes in 18 states and placed them in 13 states; 4 countries: Aruba, Bermuda, The Netherlands, Great Britain; and on a cruise ship! Thanks for stopping by our website and we appreciate your continued support.

"Have fun and just get out there & box!!!"

Email us: mjpepe1@comcast.net (Mark) or suepepe1@comcast.net (Sue)

Monday, July 11, 2005

Soggy Waffles & More!

Our Box of the Week is gramatrick's Letterboxing Kids Never Eat Soggy Waffles. Don't you just love the name? Wait until you read what it is - very clever. I can hear boxing grandparents around the country teaching their grandkids about this one!

UPDATE: I was enlightened by a certain curly-tailed friend of ours that the original Never Eat Soggy Waffles box was from the left coast by one of our pinecone-makers, 4DToes. Thanks, John, for an innovative box and one of many that we hope to hunt when we make our OR trip in June.

Our Poll of the Week is concerned with your opinion of leaving a letterbox while on vacation - even if it's hundreds of miles away from home. Do you have issues with worrying about maintenance or is it more important to you to leave a little piece of these precious times behind?

posted by Mark and Sue at Monday, July 11, 2005

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What is Letterboxing?
Letterboxing enthusiasts hide and hunt weatherproof containers in remote or scenic places. Each container holds a logbook, a rubber stamp and stamp pad. The planter of the letterbox distributes clues to it's location via the internet, Word of Mouth, on websites or via other means. Clues can be easy to difficult. Finding a letterbox may require a combination of skills such as mapreading, orienteering, and puzzle-solving.

Letterboxers carry their own logbook and personal stamp when hunting for hidden boxes. Upon finding a letterbox, they will imprint their own logbook using the found stamp, and leave their own stamping or personalization in the letterbox's logbook. Some artistic letterboxers carve and even design their own stamps and logbooks. Letterboxes are hidden in various locations throughout the world.

Letterboxing has its beginnings in Dartmoor National Park in England, where the first letterbox at Cranmere Pool was placed in 1854 by a Dartmoor guide named James Perrott, who left his calling card in a container there while guiding tourists through Dartmoor.