Over a Week of Fun & More to Come!

Where do we begin?

On Saturday, September 16 we headed to Kreepy Kelli's Pirate Gathering at Bluff Point in Groton, CT. What a day that was! Pirates galore, old and new friends, a great buffet and too many boxes to hunt in a day. Had a chance to finally meet Irene & Dude from Hikers & Hounds, Scarab & Night Owl, Jan of Team Little Dog, and Dogs with Wings. Nice surprise to see Lock Wench, who traveled from NY State to be there. The prize for the longest distance travelers had to belong to Wisconsin Hiker & Martini Man, who we spotted across the expanse of tables but sadly, never got a chance to visit. Jay Drew showed up sporting a new set a crutches while he recoups from minor leg surgery that will have him on the trails and planting those gems before long! Thanks to all who had anything to do with that event - it was a blast!

From there, Sue & I drove home just before dark, packed the car, threw the canoe on the Corolla and headed north to VT, where we spent 8 great days. We canoed two beautiful lakes in southern VT on glorious fall days, hiked, took a chair lift ride to the top of Mount Snow to enjoy nature's changing palette and planted a series of 5 boxes from the Flamingo Gathering and a special one for the coming Mystery Planting Day of October 7. Clues will be posted next week. It was a very special time for Sue & I - as is most of our time spent in that getaway in the mountains. We enjoyed a special anniversary dinner (our 32nd,) while we reminisced about our anniversary two years previous in Dartmoor and looked forward to next year's anniversary back in the wonderful moor!

Now we're back to work but only for a short time. Ahead of us, like the proverbial light(house) at the end of the tunnel, is this Saturday's Great Cape Escape! Who knows what those Capers have in store for us. And I promised Rae Record that THIS time we're coming home with the Phantom of the Boardwalk's image in our logbook! Cape Cod Letterboxer suggested we go night boxing to find the Phantom. While I liked the idea, Rae taunted that we couldn't find it in broad daylight, how did we expect that we'd find it in the dark? Time spent with old and new friends on the Rock. Sue & I will be releasing our third HH - Cape Light HH sometime the day of the gathering. For more info and to register for this gathering, please click here - you'll be glad you did. For those of you that have emailed us regarding our boxing bands, we'll have some with us at the gathering as well!

One last thing - thanks to all of you who emailed us about the lack of posting to this website over the past 8 to 10 days. Your emails were most welcomed and touched us both. Our son, Steve, who read our email while we were gone in case of an emergency, couldn't believe the amount of people who took the time to send an email inquiring whether we were sick, upset or busy because we hadn't posted in a while. He still doesn't believe the caring community of which we are proud members. Thanks to you all - you know who you are!

See you all at the Cape Gathering - and Rae, we're comin' to get ya!