Home Happy & Safe

We're home - safe and sound - with wonderful memories of the moor and the people we met along the way. Our trip to Dartmoor was better than our last, I think. Having been before, the emphasis wasn't on getting the 100 to enter the Dartmoor 100 Club since we did that last trip.

This trip was more of a return to the beauty of the moor, spending time with the other Moor Tor-ists and just enjoying the area and the special beauty it holds. I wouldn't have cared if we found enough boxes to garner our Dartmoor 2oo patch but we did. Renewing friendships with the great Andy Wilkes, who gave up a week of his precious time to put up with us as well as thanks to Spannerman & Ali and Chris & Louise Donovan for joining us for several days. We're also glad for our other visitors who drove hours to meet with us like Yorkshire Tortoise, Cadenza & Andrew, The Dartmoor Bounders - Ian & Caroline and especially Malcolm Allderidge and his wife, Angela. You'll hear more about Malcolm later. Also thanks to the wonderful Plymouth meeting letterboxers who welcomed us with open arms, even after I messed up the address of the meet location and we arrived late!

We also must mention a special evening spent with Godfrey & Anne Swinscow and Roger & Stephanie Paul. Godfrey retired from his role of running the membership portion of the Dartmoor 100 Club which has now been taken over by the Pauls. Thanks to Pinetree who brought her digital recorder thinking I needed it for the clues to some boxes we were going to plant, we have about 10 minutes of Godfrey's talk to us recorded and will share that with you later in the week.

So much to catch up on but you'll hear more in a few days. We're still compiling our trip diary and we'll begin posting it - a day at a time after we download some pictures. Just wanted to let you know that everyone is home safe and happy!

Photo courtesy of Jennifer Decker (who says she's Clueless?)
Thanks for the picture, Jen, we love it!