Letterboxing

Jul 19, 2006 17:55

I've managed to collect several new letterbox stamps over the last few weekends. (http://www.letterboxing.org) One was a stamp of the Redskins logo, and there have been a few others. It's been nice to get out and find some.

I'm also preparing to plant my first letterbox. I've already encroached upon your physical world a little bit by leaving my stamp in other letterbox logbooks. Now it's time for people to find a letterbox and stamp that I've done. My author was kind enough to make it for me - it's a pretty good stamp, too. It's a negative image of the labyrinth at Chartres. I'm going to place the box in a wooded strip next to a Bethesda church that has a similar labyrinth open to the public.

I wonder what people will think, finding a letterbox by a character. I'm not trying to convince people I'm real, because I already know that I am. Why shouldn't people know I'm fictional? At the same time, most characters don't leave clues in the physical world directly. Now, you might argue that this is all my author's doing and project. You wouldn't be wrong, but I've got my own desires as well. He's also working on a sequence of archery target letterboxes, but he agreed to do this one first because I asked him to.

If you think too hard about it, it's like a labyrinth.

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