Land of the Little Angel

This afternoon, I was fortunate enough to head south to Angelina county and plant the Land of the Little Angel LB. I decided to hide Angelina on the campus of Angelina College, where there is a nice nature trail. This was my first time to visit this trail, and I was not disappointed. There isn't a map of the trail, but there are several options for different loops as you hike the trail. I hope you will enjoy the hike as well as the box.

Look for a box to be planted in San Augustine, TX sometime this week. Happy trails!

Black Friday

Today was the traditional holiday shopping frenzy known as "Black Friday". However, my profits today were not in gifts, but in Letterboxes! Since I've been laying on the couch due to illness for the past week or so, I was finally able to get out and box! It was quite a profitable day. I drove out to Fairfield Lake State Park in Fairfield, TX and searched for three boxes. I found Oh Deer! and Horton which were planted by Barefoot Lucy and Silver Eagle, respectively. After searching the tree stump and the ground all around it, I was still unable to locate Baby Bear's Texas Tour. I was disappointed, but that's part of the game sometimes.

I ran into a few families on the trail and saw a group of men and boys fishing on the lake's shore. One man said, "Good morning....oh..is it still morning? I haven't been paying much attention to the clock today." I told him that losing track of time was a good thing to do today.

After hiking back around to the trail head with my secret treasures, I packed up my things and shuffled south to Buffalo. I visited Harriman Park to find Shuffle Off to Buffalo, which is a finely detailed stamp. I also picked up two stamps in the Branding Iron Series: Pate Ranch and Lipsey Ranch. It was a great day for hiking, boxing, and just losing track of time. My Black Friday wasn't a shopping marathon, but a letterboxing mini-marathon and I can't wait to do it again soon!

Angelina

Angelina County is the only county in the state of Texas which is named after a woman. It is located in East Texas and is named after a Native American Woman who served as an interpreter for French explorers and converted to Christianity through Spanish Missionaries. She even traveled to Mexico with these priests, then returned to her village to help keep Christianity alive.

I have created a box in honor of this "Little Angel". I want to plant it this week in her county, if time (and my health) will allow. I hope others will enjoy this meaningful tribute to one of Texas' founding mothers.

A Great Day for Boxing

Today, I met up with Blue Butterfly and we drove to Tyler State Park. There were two boxes in the park that I had yet to find, so BB accompanied me even though she'd found these particular boxes already herself. We had a nice, cool breeze as we walked around the lake in pursuit of two boxes: Camp Fire and Tyler State Park. The sky was over cast, making for a beautiful cloudscape. There were boy scouts hiking, families biking, fathers and sons fishing, and multiple pairs of people navigating the lake with paddle boats and canoes. The stamps I collected are quite impressive. This was my first experience finding stamps by Northstars, and I hope to find more of their boxes soon.

25 from 100th Find

When I counted all of my finds after the Terrors of Telge Gathering, I realized that I'm about 25 boxes away from my mile stone 100th box. I'm generally not into talking about how many I've found, since I'm in it for the adventure rather than the accounting portion of the game, but it does excite me. I will have the whole week of Thanksgiving off, so perhaps I will be able to get closer to that short term goal and do a little celebration dance! I guess I'll just have to "get out there and box!"

SFA Forest Still Has Roadblocks

While we were out and about in Nacogdoches yesterday, we drove out to the SFA Experimental Forest to see if it was open yet. Unfortunately, Vivaldi's Winter is still behind a locked gate and is inaccessible. However, Blue Butterfly did manage to get a little ways down the trail and took a few pictures of the damage that was done.

The Zoo Crew

Yesterday, I tagged along with Blue Butterfly, Stinky Monkey, and Roarin' Lion as they found some of my boxes. When we looked through the logbook of Vivaldi's Summer, I found two new signature stamps I 'd never seen before, so that was a pleasant surprise!

I'd also gotten a notice that my Recycle box was missing. However, I checked on it and it was safe and sound. It survived the downtown Christmas decorating crew, so I'm confident that, if future finders re-hide well, it should be in dowtown Nacogdoches for some time to come.