Fleur de Lis' Letterboxing Journal

My thoughts on my new favorite hobby.

Monday, August 23, 2004

We went to Norristown Farm Park yesterday because it's pretty close and I figured we could get in, get the 3 boxes, and get out. Boy was I wrong! The clues, first of all, are so creative (and wonderful), but you have to use your imagination to "see" what the author sees.. Took us about 20 minutes before I was finally sure that we were headed in the right direction to the first box. Then, of course, we did end up taking a wrong path and had to climb through the forest, over a creek, and into some brush just to get back on track. We found Spiral Galaxy after a lot of searching and then headed off to box #2. Unfortunately, we must have overshot it (by a lot), because we found ourselves on a trail that really wasn't a trail anymore. By that point, it was closing in on 7 pm and we decided to just stay on the non-trail and get back to the car. Easier said than done! The non-trail became way too overgrown for us to continue on, so we backtracked and went through a fence into a field. There'd been a sign saying not to do that, as there was a bull and some other livestock roaming the fields, but Joe didn't care - he didn't want to walk ALL the way back around to the car. Through the field we tromped, with me telling him to hurry up the entire time, and looking around for a bull to come charging at me! The only animals we ended up seeing were deer, but it was a nervewracking 10 minutes for me! We'll go back and get the other 2 boxes, but maybe in the winter when there's a lot less undergrowth to deal with.