Letterboxing

[Nitrohaulic]

I have this fascinating, smart, and extremely creative new (artist of a) girlfriend who keeps occasionally mentioning this as a hobby, who is also going nuts over the fact that I drive trucks and how it could be combined with this "Letterboxing."

She's described how it involves clues and how some of these boxes have been buried or otherwise hidden for years, that people find them and somehow mark them with their own personalized rubber stamps. She says some people will go into a business, say a secret phrase, and a worker knows to go get the box.

Now she wants to combine our growing mutual interest in funny cars with this, along with my former username here and what I still use on other boards, "Nitrohaulic"! From an e-mail.

......Now I'm thinking of images for our personal stamps. We could each have one and we could have one for when we're letterboxing together. Yours might be a semi hauling a hotrod (no trailer so that the car is seen) or hauling the word "nitro"...not sure what hotrod honey would be (maybe a girl draped on a funny car?), but our team one could be your trailer with my stamp being "hauled"? I don't know. Fun puzzle to work on.

I now see a site for it.

Letterboxing North America

Is this some weird segment of society that I've never heard of or is this halfway common? Just wanted to see if anyone here knows about and/or has participated in this.

I'm picturing this combined with drag racing. Letterboxes hidden at tracks or carried by teams. Racing oriented businesses. Go up to a driver signing autographs, say the right phrase, and he goes and gets the letterbox. Maybe the phrase would change and you'd have to get updated ones off of their website.

 

[Al smith]

for some reason I had thought this thread would be about the screen format on some of turner classic movies on my tv.

 

[G'ginna]

My sister has been doing this for awhile with her daughter. She sent me info on it, but I just don't have the time...

 

[Hotrod Honey]

Ron, your GF sounds AMAZING!

Letterboxing really is a lot of fun if you like hiking, solving puzzles, treasure hunts and simple art. Though it's not surprising that there isn't a lot of overlap between these two subcultures.

AtlasQuest.com is a shinier, more in-depth source of info and clues for those intrested.

 

[Nitrohaulic]

Ron, your GF sounds AMAZING!

Letterboxing really is a lot of fun if you like hiking, solving puzzles, treasure hunts and simple art. Though it's not surprising that there isn't a lot of overlap between these two subcultures.

AtlasQuest.com is a shinier, more in-depth source of info and clues for those intrested.

Well, I just posted the good things about her!

That's pretty much what she says about that.

 

[Nitrohaulic]

Aha!

Fanfueler Letterbox

The stamp is to commemorate NHRA'S John Force the winningest F/C driver in the world.

If there's a funny car involved, I'll find it!

I've stopped at that exit many times over the years. An old former Union 76 truck stop is there. What a coincidence that it was placed the day before.

I think this would be a cool thing to have cross over more into drag racing. Not only could drivers have them but, businesses in the same towns the tours stop in could.