100th Find

This morning, I got up a little early...ok, I confess...a LOT early, and headed south to do some boxing along Hwy 59, in The Woodlands, and in Lake Houston State Park. The weather was perfect! I had a good time following in Runs For Chocolate's footsteps as I collected items from her runner's goody bag. I had been anxious to see what her visual aide would be...I had in mind several different things, but the most obvious answer eluded me. It was a nice surprise. I enjoyed finding this series in Northshore Park. As you can see in the picture, it was a quite foggy in the area this morning.

After leaving North Shore Park, I headed down to the Montgomery County Nature Preserve and stamped into Baby Bear's Bedtime Stories. This was a nice trail, although I did have a hard time deciding where I should park. It was quiet and a gentle breeze was blowing. I highly recommend this find, too, as you will enjoy the scenery and get a little chuckle when you see the stamp.

If you were to follow the the routes to the boxes I found, you will see that I didn't find these Montgomery County boxes in the proper geographic order, as I did some "circling" in this unfamiliar territory. That being said...I am proud to say that I did stamp into every box I set out to find today. So, I went to the Alpenhaus Restaurant and stamped into The Pretzel LB. This one was my 100th find! I was thrilled with reaching this land mark before the year was out. I guess I will always have a special place in my heart for my first LB (Gibraltar of the Confederacy) and also my 100th.

After doing my tiny celebration with NUMBER 100, I went to the HEB Market and found Runs for Chocolate's Jacksonville Tomato Festival box. This box was carved by The Frye Team and hidden by RFC in our TX Festival Exchange. Even though I'd gotten a sneak preview (THANKS FRYE TEAM!), I wanted to officially stamp in.

After finishing up with all of these fantastic stamps, I ate lunch and was on the road again by noon. I headed back toward Highway 59 and headed South. I stopped in Splendora and picked up The Frye Team's Katrina Prayer Box. This is a very thoughtful box the Fryes placed in an appropriate location. The Frye's dedicated this box to those who were victims of the hurricane that struck TX/LA this year.

After jumping back in the car, I headed further south to Lake Houston State Park. Don't let the name fool ya...there is no access to the lake at this park. I checked in with the park ranger who told me that the hunting ban was back in full force (apparently they'd allowed a temporary hunt for the past few days), so I was free to hike anywhere in the park. I took the bridge over Peach Creek and headed towards the Polka Dots' Peach Creek Ranch. This was a well done stamp, and as far as I could tell, I was just the second person to stamp into it. As I was leaving the trail, I ran into some Boy Scouts who were entering the trail on their bicycles.

I headed back across the bridge and took the Magnolia trail to Baby Bear's Texas Twilight. This box was placed in April 2003, so it was like a treasure chest when I opened up the log book. It was also a terrific stamp. After I finished up and re-hid the box, I headed back North. I did stop in Livingston to pick up Hoppin' Down 59 by the Frye Team. Again, I had imagined this stamp would look like several different things, but I was surprised by what the picture turned out to be.

Thanks to: Baby Bear, Frye Team, Polka Dots, and Runs for Chocolate for giving me a great letterboxing day. I had a great time and hope to do it again soon!