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The Sprite
& The Highlander's Letterboxing Page If you find it ANY of our boxes, please be sure to register your
find on Atlas Quest for us Welcome to our new letterboxing page (finally dumped Geocities
in favor of Orgfree). Forgive us for picking a site with more popups, but we
couldn’t beat the storage space they allow here! J Anyway, let me get you all caught up with where we are as of 12/27/2007. First, we’ve finally stopped making Life Lessons from The
Jukebox series and now have our boxes in about 10 different states, but
MOSTLY at Chestnut Ridge Park here in Western New York. If you find it ANY of our boxes, please be
sure to register your find on Atlas
Quest for us. We love seeing who’s who! Second, we’ve been blogging a bit to help keep track
of the events and what not. Our blog is at http://spriteandthighlander.blogspot.com
, so check it our and let us know what you think. We’ve also created a new
page that has every gathering that has been done in Western NY since Dagonell
the Pirate and Team Dakota first met up at the Brass Ring Thing back in early
2003. The page is called the Official
Western New York Gathering Page and is meant to show EVERYTHING
(which means if you don’t see an event of yours listed, contact us so we’ve
got them all!). Third, we’re still selling LBNY t-shirts and patches. A
picture of the patches plus the info you need to get yours is listed here in
our Atlas
Quest Photo Album, while the shirts can be purchased from our Café Press
Site by clicking here. We
stopped using the original company with the hitchhiker on the front because
the Highlander no longer works in their building to get the discount, but you
can get a much larger variety of shirts and colors, plus hoodies,
sweatshirts, bags, baby and kids shirts, etc. from Café Press. So, lose a
little, gain a little! Fourth…well, I guess fourth would be this new page! We’ve
tried to move all our clues and such to this site, plus linked anything we
can think of that you’d need from us in terms of boxing. Just start looking around
and let us know if a link doesn’t work (like, it takes you back to the main
page without you wanting it to!) That’s all for now! Don’t forget to check our links on the
sides for cool places to further your boxing habit and neat stuff to buy
online and we’ll see you on the trails! The Sprite & The Highlander |
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Other Letterboxing Links
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Our new favorite hobby is letterboxing (which, we can do in
tandem with our national park passport cancellation
search). The premise is pretty
simple. People all over the world leave little boxes to be found by others
who use clues from various internet websites (like www.letterboxing.org or www.atlasquest.com) to locate them. You
go in search of these with your own little stamp and inkpad (something you
like that you can get from any craft store), a writing utensil of some sort
and your own little notebook for logging where you've been. Once you've found a
box, you'll always find a note explaining what you've found, a little stamp
pertaining to the box and a logbook to leave your mark in. You use the stamp
and inkpad you've brought to mark your presence in the letterbox's logbook,
then take THEIR stamp to mark your own as proof you've been there. You can
also write little notes to say more if you'd like. (ex--"Found it! From
the Sprite & the Highlander"). Once you're done, put everything back
and you're all set! Sometimes you'll find a little box or pack inside a letterbox
that comes complete with its own stamp and logbook. These are called hitchhikers and they're meant to
travel. When you find one, take it with you and place it in the next letterbox
you find. When you get there, pretend like the hitchhiker (or HH) is another
person. Both you and the HH stamp into the box’s logbook (so people will know
you were both there) and stamp both your log book and the HH’s with the box’s
own stamp (so everyone will know where it’s been). Alternately, you can mail
them to another letterboxing friend for them to place, which really helps
move a hitchhiker around! No matter what, make sure you stamp in just like
you would on a normal box. The key in all this is making sure people DON'T see you. If you
attract a lot of attention to a box, vandals might bother with it for fun,
and then the box is gone for the next finders (as it stands, we're told that
some people think it's funny to check for these boxes just to destroy them).
We actually enjoy the cloak and dagger kind of stuff...one person plays look
out while the other acquires the package, sliding along walls to make sure
you don't get caught, doing the dive roll as the enemy opens FIRE...well, you
get the idea, here! You also want to make sure you put things back the way you found
them. We’ve been to lots of boxes now and really try to do what we can to
rehide the box as well as possible. Nothing is worse than finding out your
box was stolen or vandalized because someone was in a rush to take off to the
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This should finally put all our boxing clues into places that
are easy to find. Unless otherwise stated, these boxes are permanent, so you
can still find them, even in the dead of winter. I still keep finding little glitches, so if a page won’t work,
contact me and let me know a link is broken. Thanks! Our
General Boxes (boxes that we’ve created that don’t fall into a category) The
Sprite's Friends & Highlander's Favorite Fowl Boxes (sprites and
waterfowl galore!) Web
Toon Inspired Boxes (stuff from Homestar
Runner and Weebls Stuff) Life
Lessons From the Jukebox List (the original ideas that started the boxes) Life
Lessons From the Jukebox Clues (the actual boxes themselves) Our
Virtual Box Clues (adding more as we speak!) Hallowed
Grounds Tour Boxes and Map (all
from the cemetery driving tour in October of 2007) The Official Western
New York Gathering Page (has events and clues from other gatherings we’ve
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The Official Western New York Welcome Wagon Letter (for new
boxers!) This is the letter we try
to send out to anyone we don’t know that logs a find of one of our boxes on
Atlas Quest. By the way, if anyone wants to copy this to use for their boxes
or in their area, feel free...just don't forget to search the events in your
area and change them up! Desperately Seeking Sun! (February 23): (http://www.atlasquest.com/events/event.html?gEventId=323)
This event has become a testament to the heartiness of all New York boxers...snow boxing! There's plenty of
outdoor boxes to get, but also some great indoor activities and kids stuff as
well. There's a before and after party as well, so check the event listing
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