Add Wyoming!

So happy to report that we can add Wyoming to our states-successfully-letterboxed-in-list. Today we found a lovely box in Saratoga, Wyoming that had sat very alone and lonely for quite a long time. We also successfully located a very nice Wyoming mystery box for which we were the second finders.

Anyway, we added Arkansas to our list earlier this summer, and on this trip hope to add Montana, perhaps Idaho, and definitely South Dakota to our list. At this point, we've successfully boxed in 20 states. Please bear in mind that in two directions, it takes us almost 800 miles to get out of our home state, so it's not like in the NE where you've got a ton of states all crammed together. Someday we'll make a trip there and then we'll really rack up the states!

For those of you interested in things like vacation blogging, you can follow our adventures at The Quest for Huckleberry Pi/e.

Letterboxing resolutions

I don't really make new year's resolutions. Like most people, I strive to improve my life...to exercise more, to eat better, to make healthful choices, to save more money and to appreciate what I have. Really, this is an on-going process that isn't bound by a calendar. This way, when you slip up, you just keep going, trying to do better.

But there are ways I need to improve my letterboxing habits. To that end:

here are my vague and random letterboxing goals for 2010. I'd love to hear yours too.

• Plant more. I have drawers and boxes of stamps just sitting in my house. I know there are folks who would like to find these stamps, and there's not much I do with them at this point. I tend to plant for events, but I need to plant more just-because boxes.

• Explore my city and area more. There's a core group of us letterboxers that have been at it for the last five-six years. We could all use some new locations as we're slightly bored with the same-old ones.

• Find boxes in never boxed before states. Last year, we added Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa to our list. All told, we boxed in 12 states. This year, we're hoping to add Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming and South Dakota to the list.

• Get out there more. I really enjoy letterboxing. I'd like to do it more but I let other things get in the way. I'm hoping to have at least two letterboxing girls weekends but to try and plan weekly excursions.

Anyway, here's to a great 2010!