Updated Letterboxing Totals

Well my goal this year was to reach 200 letterboxes found, and we've reached that goal!! And surpassed it!! Whoohoo! This past weekend, I flew to Reno, Nevada and was able to find two letterboxes, so now I can add another state to our list of states we've letterboxed in: New Mexico, Arizona, Texas, Utah, Colorado, and Nevada!


FOUND LETTERBOXES
1.Veterans' Memorial (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/12/2007
2.Koi Fish (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/12/2007
3.La Cueva Arrow (Albuquerque, NM) - 03/13/2007
4.The Netherwood Box (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/12/2007
5.Los Vaqueros (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/13/2007
6.Domingo Baca (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/13/2007
7.Rosche's Little Affair (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/15/2007
8.ABQ Sunport (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/20/2007
9.Urban Forest (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/20/2007
10.Embudo Canyon (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/2/2006
11.It's Chile Out Here! (Hatch, NM) - 4/14/2007
12.What is the Thing? (Dragoon, AZ) - 4/14/2007
13.Lordsburg (Lordsburg, NM) - 4/14/2007
14.Tombstone (Tombstone, AZ) - 4/18/2007
15.Rolling Stones (Tombstone, AZ) - 4/18/2007
16.Lincoln Park (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
17.AMARC (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
18.Fly Catcher (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
19.Going Batty II (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
20.Phainopepia (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
21.Rock Solid (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
22.1st Annual (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
23.Diamondback Crossing (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
24.Diamondback Bridge (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
25.3rd at Columbus Letterbox (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
23.Columbus Park Letterbox (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
24.Silverbell Letterbox (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
25.Crystal's Cathouse Hostel: [5 Hitchhikers] (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
26.Rolling Stones Re-Mixed (Texas Canyon, AZ) - 4/27/2007
27.Ibex Box (Deming, NM) - 4/27/2007
28.Black and White (Mystery, NM) - 5/16/2007
29.Isotopes (Albuquerque, NM) - 5/18/2007
30.Abundant Water (Ft. Stockton, TX) - 5/26/2007
31.Displaced Donkey (Ft. Stockton, TX) - 5/26/2007
32.Leaning Tower of Pease, Texas Governor Series (Austin, TX) - 5/26/2007
33.Oakwood Cemetery (Austin, TX) - 5/26/2007
34.Visual Aid (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/28/2007
35.Tee Time (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/28/2007
36.Branding Iron (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/28/2007
37.Tiger Cub-Go See It!: [2 boxes] (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/29/2007
38.Explorers Circle (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/29/2007
39.Mark by Mark (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
40.Call of the Wild (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
41.America's StoryTeller (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
42.Literary Ace (Tomball,TX) - 5/30/2007
43.Elm Creek Quilts-Quilt Block Series (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
44.Harry's Headache (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
45.The Stamp (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
46.True North (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
47.Mercer Monarch (Spring, TX) - 6/2/2007
48.Grandmother's Flower Garden-Quilt Block Series (Spring, TX) - 6/2/2007
49.Panda Bear, what do you see? (Humble, TX) - 6/2/2007
50.The Pinata Box [18+ stamps!] (Humble, TX) - 6/2/2007
51.A Sssssnake Story (Humble, TX) - 6/2/2007
52.Cactus Pot (Kerrville, TX) - 6/5/2007
53.Peace on Earth (Kerrville, TX) - 6/5/2007
54.Cattle on the Mesa (Fabens, TX) - 6/5/2007
55.Windy Day (Alamagordo, NM) - 6/6/2007
56.Atari E.T.-Random Wierdness Box#3 (Alamagordo, NM) - 6/6/2007
57.Sandia Crest (Albuquerque, NM) - 6/18/2007
58.The Aliens have Landed (Socorro, NM) - 6/19/2007
59.Space Port "Take Me To Your Leader" (Truth or Consequences, NM) - 6/19/2007
60.Cabinet Box (Deming, NM) - 6/19/2007
61.Bisbee Box (Bisbee, AZ) - 6/24/2007
62.Bisbee Pass (Bisbee, AZ) - 6/24/2007
63.Doc and Brutus (Pomerene, AZ) - 6/25/2007
64.To the Bat Cave (Benson, AZ) - 6/26/2007
65.Boys of Summer (Tucson, AZ) - 6/27/2007
66.Presidio Downtown Walking Tour [3 boxe] (Tucson,AZ) - 6/27/2007
67.Crocodile Duck Dee (Tucson, AZ) - 6/28/2007
68.Tucson (Tucson, AZ) - 6/28/2007
69.Speedway (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
70.Agua Caliente (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
71.Ben's Bells (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
72.C is for Cougar (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
73.Coati Corner (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
74.San Pedro River (Sierra Vista, AZ) - 7/6/2007
75.Geology 101-'Limestone' (Vail, AZ) - 7/7/2007
76.Rincon Valley (Vail, AZ) - 7/7/2007
77.Five Minutes of my Life (Tucson, AZ) - 7/7/2007
78.Willcox Playa (Willcox, AZ) - 7/11/2007
79.Ladybug Peak (Bonita, AZ) - 7/11/2007
80.Safford Cotton (Safford, AZ) - 7/11/2007
81.Vexing Letterbox Anomaly (Mystery Box) - 7/11/2007
82.The Red Brick (Farmington, NM) - 7/22/2007
83.Downtown Moab (Moab, Utah) - 7/22/2007
84.Happy 10th,11th, 13th Birthday (Moab, Utah) - 7/22/2007
85.Choose the Right 'Pawth' (Provo, Utah) - 7/23/2007
86.Moose (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
87.Utah's State Symbol Series: Elk (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
88.Olympic Letterbox (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
89.The Swaner Box (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
90.Bark City Letterbox (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
91.Summit County Library (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
92.Farmin' Fun Fer All (Salt Lake City, Utah) - 7/26/2007
93.On the Farm Series: [4 boxes] (Salt Lake City, Utah) - 7/26/2007
94.Wetlands #1 Catch & Release (Sandy, Utah) - 7/26/2007
95.Wetlands #2 Fowl Play (Sandy, Utah) - 7/26/2007
96.Utah State Symbol Series: Sego Lily (Sandy, Utah) - 7/26/2007
97.Horse Thief Trail (Moab, Utah) - 7/27/2007
98.Fish Out of Water (Moab, Utah) - 7/27/2007
99.Moab Man (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
100.Dourown Petroglyph Panel (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
101.Art on the Rocks (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
102.Newspaper Rock Box (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
103.Indian Creek Box (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
104.Hole in the Rock~Spanish Trail Box (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
105.Four Corners (Four Corners, Colorado) - 7/28/2007
106.Tunnel Canyon (Tijeras, NM) - 8/23/2007
107.A Texas Acorn (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/30/2007
108.The Netherwood Box Re-Visited (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/30/2007
109.Bio Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 9/6/2007
Santa Fe Letterboxing Spooktacular Event
110.A Little Scare (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
111.Araneae (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
112.Day of the Dead: Cancion de Amor (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
113.Day of the Dead: La Catrina (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
114.Double, Double Toil and Trouble (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
115.Flight 1007 (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
116.Fly by Night (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
117.I wnt 2 suk yor bl%d (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
118.I'm a Lumberjack and I'm Ok (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
119.The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
120.You've got Candy (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
End-Santa Fe Letterboxing Spooktacular Event
121.Rattlesnake (Albuquerque, NM) - 5/12/2008
122.Los Altos Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 5/12/2008
123.Smokey Bear (Capitan, NM) - 5/25/2008
124.Embudito:Letterboxing is for the birds (Albuquerque, NM) -7/20/2008
125.Lost Dog: German Short Hair (Albuquerque, NM) - 7/20/2008
126.Bosque:Letterboxing is for the Birds (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/11/2008
127.Roosevelt Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 9/11/08
128.Alburwocky: (Mystery Box, NM) - 9/11/08
129.Alphabetical New Mexico~Quarra (Mountainair, NM) - 10/08/08
130.Miner at the Mirador (Cerillos, NM) - 10/18/08
131.Letterboxing is for the Birds~Hawk Watch (Carnuel, NM) - 10/24/08
132.Paws & Purrs Kitten (Santa Fe) - 10/26/08
133.Paw & Purrs Puppy (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
134.Put a little love in your heart (Bonus Box) (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
135.La Paloma (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
136.Fortitudo Dei (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
137.Giant Rebel of Eden (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
138.Bear in Mind (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
139.The Crow Knows (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
140.Are your Dogs Barking (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
141.Honor, Loyalty & Peace (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
142.Lizard Goes South (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
143.Artful Southwest: Santa Fe Style (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
144.The Art of Ebru (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
145.The Falling Leaves (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
146.1/4 of July Canyon (Tajique, NM) - 11/04/08
147.Marsh Mellow (San Antonio, NM) - 12/15/08
148.Dabbling Duck (San Antonio, NM) - 12/15/08
149.Alphabetical New Mexico:Sand Hill Crane (San Antonio, NM) - 12/15/08
150.New Mexico in a Box (Socorro, NM) - 03/22/09
151.Pie Time (Socorro, NM) - 03/22/09
152.Oso Canyon (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009
153.Hidden Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009
154.Bataan Memorial Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009
155.UNM Dreams (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009
156.The Book of Eli (Carrizozo, NM) - 5/11/2009
157.Alphabetical New Mexico: M (William C. McDonald) (White Oaks, NM) - 5/11/2009
158.Alphabetical New Mexico: W (White Oaks, NM) - 5/11/2009
159.Alphabetical New Mexico: Billie the Kid (Lincoln, NM) - 5/16/2009
160.Santa Fe Southern (Lamy, NM) - 7/04/2009
161.Salman Ranch (La Cueva, NM) - 7/04/2009
162.Coyote Creek State Park (Guadalapita, NM) - 7/04/2009
163.Angel Fire (Angel Fire, NM) - 7/04/2009
164.ABC New Mexico: Vietnam Veterans Memorial(Angel Fire, NM) 7/04/2009
165.The Dykes of Red River (Red River, NM) - 7/04/2009
166.Hummingbird (Red River, NM) - 7/04/2009
167.Foxy Box (Red River, NM) - 7/04/2009
168.Humming Hummingbird (Eagle Nest, NM) - 7/04/2009
169.ABC New Mexico: Eagle Nest Lake (Eagle Nest, NM) - 7/04/2009
170.The Lazy Wheeler (Eagle Nest, NM) - 7/04/2009
171.Christmas in July (Mora, NM) - 7/04/2009
172.Center of the Universe (Mystery Box, NM) - 8/12/09
173.Pueblo Palace (Bonus Box, NM) - 8/12/09
174.Rivers Edge (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/27/09
175.Everyone's Ditching Me (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/27/09
176.ABC Dolphin (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/27/09
177.Pedalin Poet (Albuquerque, NM) -8/27/09
178.Pedalin Papa (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/27/09
179.Dawn Light (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/27/09
180.Tunnel Springs Turtle (Placitas, NM) - 9/02/09
181.The Climbing Tree (Corrales, NM) - 9/02/09
182.Pedalin' Pigtail (Albuquerque, NM) - 9/02/09
183.Pedalin' Choo Choo-Bonus Box (Albuquerque, NM) - 9/03/09
184.New Mexico State Fair (Albuquerque, NM) - 9/03/09
185.Play Pasture Pool (Santa Fe, NM) - 9/20/09
186.Anisoptera (Santa Fe, NM) - 9/20/09
Santa Fe El Rancho de Los Letterboxes Event
187.Hiding in Plain Sight (Santa Fe, NM) - 9/26/2009
188.Ms. Forktail (Santa Fe, NM) - 9/26/2009
189.Descansos (Santa Fe, NM) - 9/26/2009
190.Battlefield New Mexico (Santa Fe, NM) - 9/26/2009
191.Water-powered Grist Mill (Santa Fe, NM) - 9/26/2009
192.For Leonora (Santa Fe, NM) - 9/26/2009
193. El Camino (Santa Fe, NM) - 9/26/2009
194.Ox Cart (Santa Fe, NM) - 9/26/2009
195.Not Wonder Bread (Santa Fe, NM) - 9/26/2009
196.O'K Jimson (Santa Fe, NM) - 9/26/2009
197.El Rancho de las Golondrinas (Santa Fe, NM) - 9/26/2009
End-Santa Fe El Rancho de Los Letterboxes Event
198.Always in Style (Santa Fe, NM) - 9/26/2009
199.Stamp in Every State: New Mexico Pug (Santa Fe, NM) - 9/26/2009
200.Felis Concolor (Cerillos, NM) - 9/26/2009
201.Poecile Gambeli (Tijeras, NM) - 9/29/2009
202.Soon a Monsoon (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/4/2009
203.The Beav~Bonus Box (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/4/2009
204.Canis Latrans~Bonus Box (Cerillos, NM) - 10/4/2009
205.Feathered Serpent (Mystery, NM) - 10/14/2009
206.I knew I shoulda taken a left at Albuquerque (Albuquerque, NM) - 10/14/2009
207.Mass Happiness! (Albuquerque, NM) - 10/18/2009
208.Lucky Sevens (Albuquerque, NM) - 10/18/2009
209.Magical Gate (Cerillos, NM) - 10/19/2009
210.New Mexico's Eternal Flame (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/19/2009
211.Keep Swimming (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/19/2009
212.A Boy and His Tiger (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/19/2009
213.Land of Enchantment Series-State Flag (Mystery, NM) - 10/19/2009
214.Land of Enchantment Series-State Tree (Mystery, NM) - 10/19/2009
215.Land of Enchantment Series-State Fossil (Mystery, NM) - 10/19/2009
216.Land of Enchantment Series-State Mammal (Mystery, NM) - 10/19/2009
217.Land of Enchantment Series-State Insect (Mystery, NM) - 10/19/2009
218.Land of Enchantment Series-State Bird (Mystery, NM) - 10/19/2009
219.Siddhartha Guatama (Mystery, NM) - 10/19/2009
220.Going in Circles (Santa Fe, NM) -10/19/2009
221.Stuck in the Bosque (Albuquerque, NM) - 11/4/2009
222.Which Way From Here (Stanley, NM) - 11/5/2009
223. The Flying Mini (Reno, NV) - 11/7/2009
224.A Buckin' Bronco (Reno, NV) - 11/7/2009



PLACED:
1.Mariposa Ranch (Rio Rancho, NM) - 3/16/2007
2.Sandia Man Cave (Placitas, NM) - 3/16/2007
3.Vikings in New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM) - 5/18/2007
4.Indian Blanket (Bernalillo, NM) - 5/20/2007
5.The Catwalk (Glenwood, NM) - 7/11/2007
6.Tijeras (Tijeras, NM) - 5/17/2008
7.DWI Memorial (Moriarty, NM)- 5/20/2008
8.Golden Eagle (Edgewod, NM) - 7/08/2008
9.Have a Javalina (Edgewood, NM) - 7/08/2008
10.The Masked Bandit (Edgewood, NM) - 7/08/2008
11.The Big "I" (Albuquerque, NM) - 7/20/2008
12.Monkey Cave (Tijeras, NM) - 11/07/2008
13.Fortune Teller (Sandia Park, NM) -03/28/2009
14.Corrales Crawdad (Corrales, NM) - 4/21/2009
15.Zig Zag (Claunch, NM) - 05/16/2009
16.Smack Dab in the Middle (Mystery, NM) - 05/16/2009
17.Who? Who? (Cerillos, NM) - 10/4/2009)
18.Sandia Peak Tram (Albuquerque, NM) - 10/16/2009

HITCH HIKERS:
1.Hebrew Aleph-Bet~Zayin (Albuquerque,NM) - 3/20/2007 (Placed: "It's Chile Out There~Hatch, NM - 4/14/2007)
2.Merry Traveler (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
3.World Traveler (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
4.Reading Rocks Bookworm (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
5.Green Leaf (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
6.Sandy (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
7.The Cannonball (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
8.Reading Rocks BookWorm (Bisbee, AZ) - 6/24/2007 (Placed: "Wetlands #2 Fowl Play~Sandy, UT - 7/26/2007)
9.Mojo (Albuquerque, NM) - 7/20/2008 (Placed: "Tijeras"~Tijeras, NM - 7/27/2008)
10.Hermie Hitchhiker Cuckoo Camino (Tajique, NM) - 7/04/2008 (Placed: Alphabetical New Mexico-Quarai - 11/4/2008)
11.Moving On (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009
12.GWB (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/12/09 (Placed: Pedalin Poet~Albuquerque, NM - 8/27/09)
13.The Only Thing to Do (Santa Fe, NM) - 09/26/2009 (Placed: Albuquerque, NM)
14.Thar She Blows (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/19/2009 (Placed: Reno, NV)

EVENT STAMPS:
1. ¡Bienvenidos! 2007 (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
2. G is for gatherings (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
3. LBNA Map Roving Event Stamp (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
4. Santa Fe SPOOKtacular Letterboxing Event Stamp (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
5. SPOOKtacular Magic Words (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
6.iBienvenidos! 2009 (Santa Fe, NM) - Sept 26, 2009
7.El Rancho de las Golondrinas (Santa Fe, NM) -Sept. 26, 2009

COOTIES:
1. Cutie Bee (Tijeras, NM) -July, 21, 2008
2.Evil Bat (Santa Fe)- October 6, 2007
3.Putting on Pounds (Santa Fe)- October 6, 2007
3.Clover (Santa Fe)- October 6, 2007

PERSONAL TRAVELER STAMP EXCHANGES:
1. A Corking Carivan (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
2. Aztraveler (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
3. Cowabunga! (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
4. Gait Training (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
5. Literary Personal Traveler (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
6. No Mirrors for Me (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
7. Sheshells (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
8.Slainte (Santa Fe, NM) - Sept 26, 2009

LETTERBOXER EXCHANGES:
Lionsmane, Astro D, The Great Wuga Wuga, Rubberpeace, RBR Horno, Highwayman, Front Range Hiker, Warm Front, Cold Front, Azroadie, AZJokester, y nought, preboxed, Triple T's, South Hill Hendersons, Fantastyk Voyager, Phancy Phan Tail, Blind Smiley, Potted Frog, Dutch Rabbit, Wrong Hat, St. Patty's Day, Dewberry

Updated Letterboxing Finds

We are getting so close to reaching our 2009 goal of 200 found Letterboxes!!!


FOUND LETTERBOXES
1.Veterans' Memorial (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/12/2007
2.Koi Fish (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/12/2007
3.La Cueva Arrow (Albuquerque, NM) - 03/13/2007
4.The Netherwood Box (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/12/2007
5.Los Vaqueros (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/13/2007
6.Domingo Baca (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/13/2007
7.Rosche's Little Affair (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/15/2007
8.ABQ Sunport (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/20/2007
9.Urban Forest (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/20/2007
10.Embudo Canyon (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/2/2006
11.It's Chile Out Here! (Hatch, NM) - 4/14/2007
12.What is the Thing? (Dragoon, AZ) - 4/14/2007
13.Lordsburg (Lordsburg, NM) - 4/14/2007
14.Tombstone (Tombstone, AZ) - 4/18/2007
15.Rolling Stones (Tombstone, AZ) - 4/18/2007
16.Lincoln Park (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
17.AMARC (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
18.Fly Catcher (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
19.Going Batty II (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
20.Phainopepia (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
21.Rock Solid (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
22.1st Annual (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
23.Diamondback Crossing (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
24.Diamondback Bridge (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
25.3rd at Columbus Letterbox (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
23.Columbus Park Letterbox (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
24.Silverbell Letterbox (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
25.Crystal's Cathouse Hostel: [5 Hitchhikers] (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
26.Rolling Stones Re-Mixed (Texas Canyon, AZ) - 4/27/2007
27.Ibex Box (Deming, NM) - 4/27/2007
28.Black and White (Mystery, NM) - 5/16/2007
29.Isotopes (Albuquerque, NM) - 5/18/2007
30.Abundant Water (Ft. Stockton, TX) - 5/26/2007
31.Displaced Donkey (Ft. Stockton, TX) - 5/26/2007
32.Leaning Tower of Pease, Texas Governor Series (Austin, TX) - 5/26/2007
33.Oakwood Cemetery (Austin, TX) - 5/26/2007
34.Visual Aid (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/28/2007
35.Tee Time (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/28/2007
36.Branding Iron (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/28/2007
37.Tiger Cub-Go See It!: [2 boxes] (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/29/2007
38.Explorers Circle (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/29/2007
39.Mark by Mark (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
40.Call of the Wild (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
41.America's StoryTeller (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
42.Literary Ace (Tomball,TX) - 5/30/2007
43.Elm Creek Quilts-Quilt Block Series (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
44.Harry's Headache (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
45.The Stamp (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
46.True North (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
47.Mercer Monarch (Spring, TX) - 6/2/2007
48.Grandmother's Flower Garden-Quilt Block Series (Spring, TX) - 6/2/2007
49.Panda Bear, what do you see? (Humble, TX) - 6/2/2007
50.The Pinata Box [18+ stamps!] (Humble, TX) - 6/2/2007
51.A Sssssnake Story (Humble, TX) - 6/2/2007
52.Cactus Pot (Kerrville, TX) - 6/5/2007
53.Peace on Earth (Kerrville, TX) - 6/5/2007
54.Cattle on the Mesa (Fabens, TX) - 6/5/2007
55.Windy Day (Alamagordo, NM) - 6/6/2007
56.Atari E.T.-Random Wierdness Box#3 (Alamagordo, NM) - 6/6/2007
57.Sandia Crest (Albuquerque, NM) - 6/18/2007
58.The Aliens have Landed (Socorro, NM) - 6/19/2007
59.Space Port "Take Me To Your Leader" (Truth or Consequences, NM) - 6/19/2007
60.Cabinet Box (Deming, NM) - 6/19/2007
61.Bisbee Box (Bisbee, AZ) - 6/24/2007
62.Bisbee Pass (Bisbee, AZ) - 6/24/2007
63.Doc and Brutus (Pomerene, AZ) - 6/25/2007
64.To the Bat Cave (Benson, AZ) - 6/26/2007
65.Boys of Summer (Tucson, AZ) - 6/27/2007
66.Presidio Downtown Walking Tour [3 boxe] (Tucson,AZ) - 6/27/2007
67.Crocodile Duck Dee (Tucson, AZ) - 6/28/2007
68.Tucson (Tucson, AZ) - 6/28/2007
69.Speedway (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
70.Agua Caliente (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
71.Ben's Bells (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
72.C is for Cougar (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
73.Coati Corner (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
74.San Pedro River (Sierra Vista, AZ) - 7/6/2007
75.Geology 101-'Limestone' (Vail, AZ) - 7/7/2007
76.Rincon Valley (Vail, AZ) - 7/7/2007
77.Five Minutes of my Life (Tucson, AZ) - 7/7/2007
78.Willcox Playa (Willcox, AZ) - 7/11/2007
79.Ladybug Peak (Bonita, AZ) - 7/11/2007
80.Safford Cotton (Safford, AZ) - 7/11/2007
81.Vexing Letterbox Anomaly (Mystery Box) - 7/11/2007
82.The Red Brick (Farmington, NM) - 7/22/2007
83.Downtown Moab (Moab, Utah) - 7/22/2007
84.Happy 10th,11th, 13th Birthday (Moab, Utah) - 7/22/2007
85.Choose the Right 'Pawth' (Provo, Utah) - 7/23/2007
86.Moose (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
87.Utah's State Symbol Series: Elk (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
88.Olympic Letterbox (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
89.The Swaner Box (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
90.Bark City Letterbox (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
91.Summit County Library (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
92.Farmin' Fun Fer All (Salt Lake City, Utah) - 7/26/2007
93.On the Farm Series: [4 boxes] (Salt Lake City, Utah) - 7/26/2007
94.Wetlands #1 Catch & Release (Sandy, Utah) - 7/26/2007
95.Wetlands #2 Fowl Play (Sandy, Utah) - 7/26/2007
96.Utah State Symbol Series: Sego Lily (Sandy, Utah) - 7/26/2007
97.Horse Thief Trail (Moab, Utah) - 7/27/2007
98.Fish Out of Water (Moab, Utah) - 7/27/2007
99.Moab Man (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
100.Dourown Petroglyph Panel (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
101.Art on the Rocks (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
102.Newspaper Rock Box (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
103.Indian Creek Box (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
104.Hole in the Rock~Spanish Trail Box (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
105.Four Corners (Four Corners, Colorado) - 7/28/2007
106.Tunnel Canyon (Tijeras, NM) - 8/23/2007
107.A Texas Acorn (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/30/2007
108.The Netherwood Box Re-Visited (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/30/2007
109.Bio Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 9/6/2007
110.A Little Scare (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
111.Araneae (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
112.Day of the Dead: Cancion de Amor (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
113.Day of the Dead: La Catrina (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
114.Double, Double Toil and Trouble (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
115.Flight 1007 (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
116.Fly by Night (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
117.I wnt 2 suk yor bl%d (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
118.I'm a Lumberjack and I'm Ok (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
119.The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
120.You've got Candy (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
121.Rattlesnake (Albuquerque, NM) - 5/12/2008
122.Los Altos Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 5/12/2008
123.Smokey Bear (Capitan, NM) - 5/25/2008
124.Embudito:Letterboxing is for the birds (Albuquerque, NM) -7/20/2008
125.Lost Dog: German Short Hair (Albuquerque, NM) - 7/20/2008
126.Bosque:Letterboxing is for the Birds (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/11/2008
127.Roosevelt Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 9/11/08
128.Alburwocky: (Mystery Box, NM) - 9/11/08
129.Alphabetical New Mexico~Quarra (Mountainair, NM) - 10/08/08
130.Miner at the Mirador (Cerillos, NM) - 10/18/08
131.Letterboxing is for the Birds~Hawk Watch (Carnuel, NM) - 10/24/08
132.Paws & Purrs Kitten (Santa Fe) - 10/26/08
133.Paw & Purrs Puppy (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
134.Paws & Purrs Bonus Box (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
135.La Paloma (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
136.Fortitudo Dei (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
137.Giant Rebel of Eden (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
138.Bear in Mind (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
139.The Crow Knows (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
140.Are your Dogs Barking (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
141.Honor, Loyalty & Peace (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
142.Lizard Goes South (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
143.Artful Southwest: Santa Fe Style (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
144.The Art of Ebru (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
145.The Falling Leaves (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
146.1/4 of July Canyon (Tajique, NM) - 11/04/08
147.Marsh Mellow (San Antonio, NM) - 12/15/08
148.Dabbling Duck (San Antonio, NM) - 12/15/08
149.Alphabetical New Mexico:Sand Hill Crane (San Antonio, NM) - 12/15/08
150.New Mexico in a Box (Socorro, NM) - 03/22/09
151.Pie Time (Socorro, NM) - 03/22/09
152.Oso Canyon (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009
153.Hidden Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009
154.Bataan Memorial Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009
155.UNM Dreams (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009
156.The Book of Eli (Carrizozo, NM) - 5/11/2009
157.Alphabetical New Mexico: M (William C. McDonald) (White Oaks, NM) - 5/11/2009
158.Alphabetical New Mexico: W (White Oaks, NM) - 5/11/2009
159.Alphabetical New Mexico: Billie the Kid (Lincoln, NM) - 5/16/2009
160.Santa Fe Southern (Lamy, NM) - 7/04/2009
161.Salman Ranch (La Cueva, NM) - 7/04/2009
162.Coyote Creek State Park (Guadalapita, NM) - 7/04/2009
163.Angel Fire (Angel Fire, NM) - 7/04/2009
164.ABC New Mexico: Vietnam Veterans Memorial(Angel Fire, NM) 7/04/2009
165.The Dykes of Red River (Red River, NM) - 7/04/2009
166.Hummingbird (Red River, NM) - 7/04/2009
167.Foxy Box (Red River, NM) - 7/04/2009
168.Humming Hummingbird (Eagle Nest, NM) - 7/04/2009
169.ABC New Mexico: Eagle Nest Lake (Eagle Nest, NM) - 7/04/2009
170.The Lazy Wheeler (Eagle Nest, NM) - 7/04/2009
171.Christmas in July (Mora, NM) - 7/04/2009
172.Center of the Universe (Mystery Box, NM) - 8/12/09
173.Pueblo Palace (Bonus Box, NM) - 8/12/09
174.Rivers Edge (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/27/09
175.Everyone's Ditching Me (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/27/09
176.ABC Dolphin (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/27/09
177.Pedalin Poet (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/27/09
178.Pedalin Papa (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/27/09
179.Dawn Light (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/27/09

PLACED:
1.Mariposa Ranch (Rio Rancho, NM) - 3/16/2007
2.Sandia Man Cave (Placitas, NM) - 3/16/2007
3.Vikings in New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM) - 5/18/2007
4.Indian Blanket (Bernalillo, NM) - 5/20/2007
5.The Catwalk (Glenwood, NM) - 7/11/2007
6.Tijeras (Tijeras, NM) - 5/17/2008
7.DWI Memorial (Moriarty, NM)- 5/20/2008
8.Golden Eagle (Edgewod, NM) - 7/08/2008
9.Have a Javalina (Edgewood, NM) - 7/08/2008
10.The Masked Bandit (Edgewood, NM) - 7/08/2008
11.The Big "I" (Albuquerque, NM) - 7/20/2008
12.Monkey Cave (Tijeras, NM) - 11/07/2008
13.Fortune Teller (Sandia Park, NM) -03/28/2009
14.Corrales Crawdad (Corrales, NM) - 4/21/2009
15.Zig Zag (Claunch, NM) - 05/16/2009
16.Smack Dab in the Middle (Mystery, NM) - 05/16/2009

HITCH HIKERS:
1.Hebrew Aleph-Bet~Zayin (Albuquerque,NM) - 3/20/2007 (Placed: "It's Chile Out There~Hatch, NM - 4/14/2007)
2.Merry Traveler (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
3.World Traveler (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
4.Reading Rocks Bookworm (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
5.Green Leaf (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
6.Sandy (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
7.The Cannonball (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
8.Reading Rocks BookWorm (Bisbee, AZ) - 6/24/2007 (Placed: "Wetlands #2 Fowl Play~Sandy, UT - 7/26/2007)
9.Mojo (Albuquerque, NM) - 7/20/2008 (Placed: "Tijeras"~Tijeras, NM - 7/27/2008)
10.Hermie Hitchhiker Cuckoo Camino (Tajique, NM) - 7/04/2008 (Placed: Alphabetical New Mexico-Quarai - 11/4/2008)
11.Moving On (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009
12.GWB (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/12/09 (Placed: Pedalin Poet~Albuquerque, NM - 8/27/09)

EVENT STAMPS:
1. ¡Bienvenidos! (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
2. G is for gatherings (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
3. LBNA Map Roving Event Stamp (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
4. Santa Fe SPOOKtacular Letterboxing Event Stamp (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
5. SPOOKtacular Magic Words (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007

COOTIES:
1. Cutie Bee (Tijeras, NM) -July, 21, 2008
2.Evil Bat (Santa Fe)- October 6, 2007
3.Putting on Pounds (Santa Fe)- October 6, 2007
3.Clover (Santa Fe)- Ocober 6, 2007

PERSONAL TRAVELER STAMP EXCHANGES:
1. A Corking Carivan (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
2. Aztraveler (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
3. Cowabunga! (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
4. Gait Training (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
5. Literary Personal Traveler (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
6. No Mirrors for Me (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
7. Sheshells (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007

LETTERBOXER EXCHANGES:
Lionsmane, Astro D, The Great Wuga Wuga, Rubberpeace, RBR Horno, Highwayman, Front Range Hiker, Warm Front, Cold Front, Azroadie, AZJokester, y nought, preboxed, Triple T's, South Hill Hendersons, Fantastyk Voyager, Phancy Phan Tail

Letterboxing Totals

FOUND LETTERBOXES
1.Veterans' Memorial (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/12/2007
2.Koi Fish (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/12/2007
3.La Cueva Arrow (Albuquerque, NM) - 03/13/2007
4.The Netherwood Box (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/12/2007
5.Los Vaqueros (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/13/2007
6.Domingo Baca (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/13/2007
7.Rosche's Little Affair (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/15/2007
8.ABQ Sunport (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/20/2007
9.Urban Forest (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/20/2007
10.Embudo Canyon (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/2/2006
11.It's Chile Out Here! (Hatch, NM) - 4/14/2007
12.What is the Thing? (Dragoon, AZ) - 4/14/2007
13.Lordsburg (Lordsburg, NM) - 4/14/2007
14.Tombstone (Tombstone, AZ) - 4/18/2007
15.Rolling Stones (Tombstone, AZ) - 4/18/2007
16.Lincoln Park (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
17.AMARC (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
18.Fly Catcher (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
19.Going Batty II (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
20.Phainopepia (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
21.Rock Solid (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
22.1st Annual (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
23.Diamondback Crossing (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
24.Diamondback Bridge (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
25.3rd at Columbus Letterbox (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
23.Columbus Park Letterbox (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
24.Silverbell Letterbox (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
25.Crystal's Cathouse Hostel: [5 Hitchhikers] (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
26.Rolling Stones Re-Mixed (Texas Canyon, AZ) - 4/27/2007
27.Ibex Box (Deming, NM) - 4/27/2007
28.Black and White (Mystery, NM) - 5/16/2007
29.Isotopes (Albuquerque, NM) - 5/18/2007
30.Abundant Water (Ft. Stockton, TX) - 5/26/2007
31.Displaced Donkey (Ft. Stockton, TX) - 5/26/2007
32.Leaning Tower of Pease, Texas Governor Series (Austin, TX) - 5/26/2007
33.Oakwood Cemetery (Austin, TX) - 5/26/2007
34.Visual Aid (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/28/2007
35.Tee Time (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/28/2007
36.Branding Iron (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/28/2007
37.Tiger Cub-Go See It!: [2 boxes] (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/29/2007
38.Explorers Circle (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/29/2007
39.Mark by Mark (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
40.Call of the Wild (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
41.America's StoryTeller (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
42.Literary Ace (Tomball,TX) - 5/30/2007
43.Elm Creek Quilts-Quilt Block Series (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
44.Harry's Headache (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
45.The Stamp (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
46.True North (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
47.Mercer Monarch (Spring, TX) - 6/2/2007
48.Grandmother's Flower Garden-Quilt Block Series (Spring, TX) - 6/2/2007
49.Panda Bear, what do you see? (Humble, TX) - 6/2/2007
50.The Pinata Box [18+ stamps!] (Humble, TX) - 6/2/2007
51.A Sssssnake Story (Humble, TX) - 6/2/2007
52.Cactus Pot (Kerrville, TX) - 6/5/2007
53.Peace on Earth (Kerrville, TX) - 6/5/2007
54.Cattle on the Mesa (Fabens, TX) - 6/5/2007
55.Windy Day (Alamagordo, NM) - 6/6/2007
56.Atari E.T.-Random Wierdness Box#3 (Alamagordo, NM) - 6/6/2007
57.Sandia Crest (Albuquerque, NM) - 6/18/2007
58.The Aliens have Landed (Socorro, NM) - 6/19/2007
59.Space Port "Take Me To Your Leader" (Truth or Consequences, NM) - 6/19/2007
60.Cabinet Box (Deming, NM) - 6/19/2007
61.Bisbee Box (Bisbee, AZ) - 6/24/2007
62.Bisbee Pass (Bisbee, AZ) - 6/24/2007
63.Doc and Brutus (Pomerene, AZ) - 6/25/2007
64.To the Bat Cave (Benson, AZ) - 6/26/2007
65.Boys of Summer (Tucson, AZ) - 6/27/2007
66.Presidio Downtown Walking Tour [3 boxe] (Tucson,AZ) - 6/27/2007
67.Crocodile Duck Dee (Tucson, AZ) - 6/28/2007
68.Tucson (Tucson, AZ) - 6/28/2007
69.Speedway (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
70.Agua Caliente (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
71.Ben's Bells (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
72.C is for Cougar (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
73.Coati Corner (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
74.San Pedro River (Sierra Vista, AZ) - 7/6/2007
75.Geology 101-'Limestone' (Vail, AZ) - 7/7/2007
76.Rincon Valley (Vail, AZ) - 7/7/2007
77.Five Minutes of my Life (Tucson, AZ) - 7/7/2007
78.Willcox Playa (Willcox, AZ) - 7/11/2007
79.Ladybug Peak (Bonita, AZ) - 7/11/2007
80.Safford Cotton (Safford, AZ) - 7/11/2007
81.Vexing Letterbox Anomaly (Mystery Box) - 7/11/2007
82.The Red Brick (Farmington, NM) - 7/22/2007
83.Downtown Moab (Moab, Utah) - 7/22/2007
84.Happy 10th,11th, 13th Birthday (Moab, Utah) - 7/22/2007
85.Choose the Right 'Pawth' (Provo, Utah) - 7/23/2007
86.Moose (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
87.Utah's State Symbol Series: Elk (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
88.Olympic Letterbox (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
89.The Swaner Box (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
90.Bark City Letterbox (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
91.Summit County Library (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
92.Farmin' Fun Fer All (Salt Lake City, Utah) - 7/26/2007
93.On the Farm Series: [4 boxes] (Salt Lake City, Utah) - 7/26/2007
94.Wetlands #1 Catch & Release (Sandy, Utah) - 7/26/2007
95.Wetlands #2 Fowl Play (Sandy, Utah) - 7/26/2007
96.Utah State Symbol Series: Sego Lily (Sandy, Utah) - 7/26/2007
97.Horse Thief Trail (Moab, Utah) - 7/27/2007
98.Fish Out of Water (Moab, Utah) - 7/27/2007
99.Moab Man (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
100.Dourown Petroglyph Panel (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
101.Art on the Rocks (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
102.Newspaper Rock Box (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
103.Indian Creek Box (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
104.Hole in the Rock~Spanish Trail Box (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
105.Four Corners (Four Corners, Colorado) - 7/28/2007
106.Tunnel Canyon (Tijeras, NM) - 8/23/2007
107.A Texas Acorn (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/30/2007
108.The Netherwood Box Re-Visited (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/30/2007
109.Bio Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 9/6/2007
110.A Little Scare (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
111.Araneae (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
112.Day of the Dead: Cancion de Amor (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
113.Day of the Dead: La Catrina (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
114.Double, Double Toil and Trouble (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
115.Flight 1007 (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
116.Fly by Night (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
117.I wnt 2 suk yor bl%d (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
118.I'm a Lumberjack and I'm Ok (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
119.The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
120.You've got Candy (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
121.Rattlesnake (Albuquerque, NM) - 5/12/2008
122.Los Altos Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 5/12/2008
123.Smokey Bear (Capitan, NM) - 5/25/2008
124.Embudito:Letterboxing is for the birds (Albuquerque, NM) -7/20/2008
125.Lost Dog: German Short Hair (Albuquerque, NM) - 7/20/2008
126.Bosque:Letterboxing is for the Birds (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/11/2008
127.Roosevelt Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 9/11/08
128.Alburwocky: (Mystery Box, NM) - 9/11/08
129.ABC New Mexico~Quarra (Mountainair, NM) - 10/08/08
130.Miner at the Mirador (Cerillos, NM) - 10/18/08
131.Letterboxing is for the Birds~Hawk Watch (Carnuel, NM) - 10/24/08
132.Paws & Purrs Kitten (Santa Fe) - 10/26/08
133.Paw & Purrs Puppy (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
134.Paws & Purrs Bonus Box (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
135.La Paloma (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
136.Fortitudo Dei (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
137.Giant Rebel of Eden (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
138.Bear in Mind (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
139.The Crow Knows (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
140.Are your Dogs Barking (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
141.Honor, Loyalty & Peace (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
142.Lizard Goes South (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
143.Artful Southwest: Santa Fe Style (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
144.The Art of Ebru (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
145.The Falling Leaves (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
146.1/4 of July Canyon (Tajique, NM) - 11/04/08
147.Marsh Mellow (San Antonio, NM) - 12/15/08
148.Dabbling Duck (San Antonio, NM) - 12/15/08
149.ABC New Mexico:Sand Hill Crane (San Antonio, NM) - 12/15/08
150.New Mexico in a Box (Socorro, NM) - 03/22/09
151.Pie Time (Socorro, NM) - 03/22/09
152.Oso Canyon (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009
153.Hidden Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009
154.Bataan Memorial Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009
155.UNM Dreams (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009
156.The Book of Eli (Carrizozo, NM) - 5/11/2009
157.ABC New Mexico: M (William C. McDonald) (White Oaks, NM) - 5/11/2009
158.ABC New Mexico: W (White Oaks, NM) - 5/11/2009
159.ABC New Mexico: Billie the Kid (Lincoln, NM) - 5/16/2009
160.Santa Fe Southern (Lamy, NM) - 7/04/2009
161.Salman Ranch (La Cueva, NM) - 7/04/2009
162.Coyote Creek State Park (Guadalapita, NM) - 7/04/2009
163.Angel Fire (Angel Fire, NM) - 7/04/2009
164.ABC New Mexico: Vietnam Veterans Memorial(Angel Fire, NM) 7/04/2009
165.The Dykes of Red River (Red River, NM) - 7/04/2009
166.Hummingbird (Red River, NM) - 7/04/2009
167.Foxy Box (Red River, NM) - 7/04/2009
168.Humming Hummingbird (Eagle Nest, NM) - 7/04/2009
169.ABC New Mexico: Eagle Nest Lake (Eagle Nest, NM) - 7/04/2009
170.The Lazy Wheeler (Eagle Nest, NM) - 7/04/2009
171.Christmas in July (Mora, NM) - 7/04/2009

PLACED:
1.Mariposa Ranch (Rio Rancho, NM) - 3/16/2007
2.Sandia Man Cave (Placitas, NM) - 3/16/2007
3.Vikings in New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM) - 5/18/2007
4.Indian Blanket (Bernalillo, NM) - 5/20/2007
5.The Catwalk (Glenwood, NM) - 7/11/2007
6.Tijeras (Tijeras, NM) - 5/17/2008
7.DWI Memorial (Moriarty, NM)- 5/20/2008
8.Golden Eagle (Edgewod, NM) - 7/08/2008
9.Have a Javalina (Edgewood, NM) - 7/08/2008
10.The Masked Bandit (Edgewood, NM) - 7/08/2008
11.The Big "I" (Albuquerque, NM) - 7/20/2008
12.Monkey Cave (Tijeras, NM) - 11/07/2008
13.Fortune Teller (Sandia Park, NM) -03/28/2009
14.Corrales Crawdad (Corrales, NM) - 4/21/2009
15.Zig Zag (Claunch, NM) - 05/16/2009
16.Smack Dab in the Middle (Mystery, NM) - 05/16/2009

HITCH HIKERS:
1.Hebrew Aleph-Bet~Zayin (Albuquerque,NM) - 3/20/2007 (Placed: "It's Chile Out There~Hatch, NM - 4/14/2007)
2.Merry Traveler (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
3.World Traveler (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
4.Reading Rocks Bookworm (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
5.Green Leaf (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
6.Sandy (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
7.The Cannonball (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
8.Reading Rocks BookWorm (Bisbee, AZ) - 6/24/2007 (Placed: "Wetlands #2 Fowl Play~Sandy, UT - 7/26/2007)
9.Mojo (Albuquerque, NM) - 7/20/2008 (Placed: "Tijeras"~Tijeras, NM - 7/27/2008)
10.Hermie Hitchhiker Cuckoo Camino (Tajique, NM) - 7/04/2008 (Placed: Alphabetical New Mexico-Quarai - 11/4/2008)
11.Moving On (Albuquerque, NM) 4/25/2009

EVENT STAMPS:
1. ¡Bienvenidos! (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
2. G is for gatherings (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
3. LBNA Map Roving Event Stamp (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
4. Santa Fe SPOOKtacular Letterboxing Event Stamp (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
5. SPOOKtacular Magic Words (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007

COOTIES:
1. Cutie Bee (Tijeras, NM) -July, 21, 2008
2.Evil Bat (Santa Fe)- October 6, 2007
3.Putting on Pounds (Santa Fe)- October 6, 2007
3.Clover (Santa Fe)- Ocober 6, 2007

PERSONAL TRAVELER STAMP EXCHANGES:
1. A Corking Carivan (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
2. Aztraveler (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
3. Cowabunga! (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
4. Gait Training (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
5. Literary Personal Traveler (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
6. No Mirrors for Me (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
7. Sheshells (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007


LETTERBOXER EXCHANGES:
Lionsmane, Astro D, The Great Wuga Wuga, Rubberpeace, RBR Horno, Highwayman, Front Range Hiker, Warm Front, Cold Front, Azroadie, AZJokester, y nought, preboxed, Triple T's, South Hill Hendersons, Fantastyk Voyager, Phancy Phan Tail

The Bitter Homeschooler's Wish List

The Bitter Homeschooler’s Wish List
By Deborah Markus, from Secular Homeschooling, Issue #1, Fall 2007

1. Please stop asking us if it’s legal. If it is — and it is — it’s insulting to imply that we’re criminals. And if we were criminals, would we admit it?

2. Learn what the words “socialize” and “socialization” mean, and use the one you really mean instead of mixing them up the way you do now. Socializing means hanging out with other people for fun. Socialization means having acquired the skills necessary to do so successfully and pleasantly. If you’re talking to me and my kids, that means that we do in fact go outside now and then to visit the other human beings on the planet, and you can safely assume that we’ve got a decent grasp of both concepts.

3. Quit interrupting my kid at her dance lesson, scout meeting, choir practice, baseball game, art class, field trip, park day, music class, 4H club, or soccer lesson to ask her if as a homeschooler she ever gets to socialize.

4. Don’t assume that every homeschooler you meet is homeschooling for the same reasons and in the same way as that one homeschooler you know.

5. If that homeschooler you know is actually someone you saw on TV, either on the news or on a “reality” show, the above goes double.

6. Please stop telling us horror stories about the homeschoolers you know, know of, or think you might know who ruined their lives by homeschooling. You’re probably the same little bluebird of happiness whose hobby is running up to pregnant women and inducing premature labor by telling them every ghastly birth story you’ve ever heard. We all hate you, so please go away.

7. We don’t look horrified and start quizzing your kids when we hear they’re in public school. Please stop drilling our children like potential oil fields to see if we’re doing what you consider an adequate job of homeschooling.

8. Stop assuming all homeschoolers are religious.

9. Stop assuming that if we’re religious, we must be homeschooling for religious reasons.

10. We didn’t go through all the reading, learning, thinking, weighing of options, experimenting, and worrying that goes into homeschooling just to annoy you. Really. This was a deeply personal decision, tailored to the specifics of our family. Stop taking the bare fact of our being homeschoolers as either an affront or a judgment about your own educational decisions.

11. Please stop questioning my competency and demanding to see my credentials. I didn’t have to complete a course in catering to successfully cook dinner for my family; I don’t need a degree in teaching to educate my children. If spending at least twelve years in the kind of chew-it-up-and-spit-it-out educational facility we call public school left me with so little information in my memory banks that I can’t teach the basics of an elementary education to my nearest and dearest, maybe there’s a reason I’m so reluctant to send my child to school.

12. If my kid’s only six and you ask me with a straight face how I can possibly teach him what he’d learn in school, please understand that you’re calling me an idiot. Don’t act shocked if I decide to respond in kind.

13. Stop assuming that because the word “home” is right there in “homeschool,” we never leave the house. We’re the ones who go to the amusement parks, museums, and zoos in the middle of the week and in the off-season and laugh at you because you have to go on weekends and holidays when it’s crowded and icky.

14. Stop assuming that because the word “school” is right there in homeschool, we must sit around at a desk for six or eight hours every day, just like your kid does. Even if we’re into the “school” side of education — and many of us prefer a more organic approach — we can burn through a lot of material a lot more efficiently, because we don’t have to gear our lessons to the lowest common denominator.

15. Stop asking, “But what about the Prom?” Even if the idea that my kid might not be able to indulge in a night of over-hyped, over-priced revelry was enough to break my heart, plenty of kids who do go to school don’t get to go to the Prom. For all you know, I’m one of them. I might still be bitter about it. So go be shallow somewhere else.

16. Don’t ask my kid if she wouldn’t rather go to school unless you don’t mind if I ask your kid if he wouldn’t rather stay home and get some sleep now and then.

17. Stop saying, “Oh, I could never homeschool!” Even if you think it’s some kind of compliment, it sounds more like you’re horrified. One of these days, I won’t bother disagreeing with you any more.

18. If you can remember anything from chemistry or calculus class, you’re allowed to ask how we’ll teach these subjects to our kids. If you can’t, thank you for the reassurance that we couldn’t possibly do a worse job than your teachers did, and might even do a better one.

19. Stop asking about how hard it must be to be my child’s teacher as well as her parent. I don’t see much difference between bossing my kid around academically and bossing him around the way I do about everything else.

20. Stop saying that my kid is shy, outgoing, aggressive, anxious, quiet, boisterous, argumentative, pouty, fidgety, chatty, whiny, or loud because he’s homeschooled. It’s not fair that all the kids who go to school can be as annoying as they want to without being branded as representative of anything but childhood.

21. Quit assuming that my kid must be some kind of prodigy because she’s homeschooled.

22. Quit assuming that I must be some kind of prodigy because I homeschool my kids.

23. Quit assuming that I must be some kind of saint because I homeschool my kids.

24. Stop talking about all the great childhood memories my kids won’t get because they don’t go to school, unless you want me to start asking about all the not-so-great childhood memories you have because you went to school.

25. Here’s a thought: If you can’t say something nice about homeschooling, shut up!

Happy Mudders Day!

We celebrated Mothers Day in a very special way. Come check it out on my Laughing Orca Ranch blog, Mudders Day!!!

Be Afraid! Noone is Safe from Patriot Act!!

This is absolutely frightening what has happened to this 16 yr old homeschooled boy. This is clearly Identity Theft, but the Government is not doing any investigating at all! And this young boy cannot even receive due process or private legal representation. He can't even have communication with his own family! He is being kept in a prison with adult criminals far away in another state and being traumatized by the experience. His innocence has been stolen...all because someone stole his ISP address and his identity!

Watch the video HERE!

Free Ashton Lundeby!
by William Norman Grigg

It's been said that a lie is a poor way to say "hello." It is also the standard greeting one receives from government employees, particularly those who carry guns.

Around 10:00 p.m. on March 5, a wolf-pack of armed men gathered at the front door of the Lundeby family's home in Oxford, North Carolina.

When she answered the doorbell, Annette was greeted with the sight of a State Highway Patrolman who introduced himself with a lie. Things went dramatically downhill from there.

"He told me that my son Ashton had committed a hit-and-run with somebody's car," Annette told Pro Libertate in a phone interview. "I said, 'No, that's not true – it was exactly the reverse; he was on the receiving end of a hit-and-run, and that was last January.'"

The State Trooper's lie was a pretext to rouse the home-schooled teenager from bed and bring him to the doorstep. Once the falsehood shattered against Mrs. Lundeby's polite resolve, however, the pretense was dropped and roughly a dozen armed men in body armor stormed into her home. One of them demanded that Annette go get her son; the others fanned out to search the house.

"They wouldn't tell me who they were, or where they were from," Annette recalled. "All I knew was that if I said the wrong thing I'd be dead on the floor, and there would be nobody here to protect my children." So she went upstairs and woke up her son, as instructed. When she returned with Ashton she demanded to see a search warrant. She was shown the paperwork, but the intruders were still reluctant to explain why they had invaded her home.

At some point over the next three and a half hours, Annette and Ashton learned that the men who had barged into their home were from the FBI, and that the teenage boy, who had never been in trouble with the police, was suspected of making several bomb threats via the internet. The one that brought the FBI had been made against Purdue University in Indiana at 9:05 Central Time on February 15.

Ashton had an alibi so tight it could be used as a space capsule: On the evening in question he was at a meeting held in the Union Chapel Methodist Church in Kittrell, North Carolina until after 9:00 p.m. local time, a fact that could be confirmed by interviewing any of several dozen witnesses.

After helping his mother clean the chapel, Ashton accompanied her to a local grocery store to buy food and litter box filler for the family's three cats. Once again, this element of Ashton's alibi – for which his mother was an eyewitness – would be relatively simple to confirm.

The Union Chapel church is about 35 minutes away from the Lundeby family's home. Annette recalls that the family got home shortly after 10:00 on February 15, which wouldn't have given her son adequate time to log on to the Internet and make a bomb threat by 10:05 Eastern Time (which would have been 9:05 p.m. in Indiana). She also insists that her son "went straight to bed" without turning on his computer.

The FBI insists that the threat was made using Ashton's IP address. Mrs. Lundeby insists that her son was the victim of identity theft, and that he was not the family’s only victim. Her late husband, a former employee of the federal Bureau of Prisons, also had his personal financial information stolen, and Annettee herself recalls that her bank account was hacked a couple of years ago.

For the past several months, she explained to Pro Libertate, "our family has been receiving bizarre and threatening phone calls from people" because of the malicious activities of at least one hacker.

"We had the police call here claiming that someone had called 911 to report drugs in our home. I told them that there wasn't anything going on here, but they were free to come and search the place to see for themselves."

That's an invitation she wouldn't extend again under similar circumstances.

According to Annette, at least one of Ashton's friends can identify, by screenname, the hacker who made life miserable for the Lundebys. Once again, there is no shortage of leads for an honest, competent, reasonably resourceful investigator to follow in establishing Ashton's alibi. The unfortunate truth is that the FBI is, as far as I can tell, entirely devoid of people meeting that description.

Annette and her children were held hostage in their home until 1:30 in the morning. The 12-year-old daughter was dragged from her bed by an armed stranger – an act that left the girl traumatized (and one for which the assailant should be thrashed to within a centimeter of his tax-devouring existence). Annette insisted that Ashton not answer any questions without an attorney present, but she wasn't permitted to call one.

The Feds confiscated Ashton's computer and gaming equipment, and made off with a great deal of family paperwork. But they couldn't find a particle of evidence anywhere to suggest that the teenager had built a bomb, or that possessed the necessary knowledge and intent. Nonetheless, they handcuffed Ashton and hauled him away to jail.

A hearing was scheduled for 10:00 a.m., which meant "that I couldn't get an attorney – none of their offices was open," Annette recalls. Her son was given a court-appointed attorney, a typically ineffective nebbish who – in the fashion of court-appointed "defense" counsel everywhere – was entirely disinclined to contest the prosecution's assertions.

At this point it's appropriate to note that "court-appointed" defense lawyers perform exactly the same function as "jobbers" in professional wrestling: Their job is to lose every contest. And judges in federal cases serve the same purpose as referees in pro wrestling "matches": They offer a pitiful pantomime of objectivity as they advance the pre-determined storyline. In this case, the script called for Ashton to be taken into federal custody under the terms of the Sovietesque PATRIOT (sic) Act.

"The standard that they used to arrest and detain my son was not 'probable cause,' as the Constitution requires, but rather 'good faith,' as specified in the PATRIOT [sic] Act," Annette Lundeby observes. "This meant that they didn't have to provide real evidence of a crime, because they didn't have any. All they had to do was assert their 'good faith' reasons for arresting and holding Ashton, and the judge simply let it stand."

Before and after the hearing, Ashton – a sixteen-year-old – was kept in detention with as many as thirty adult criminal suspects. He was then transferred to a federal detention center in South Bend, Indiana, where he has been for more than 60 days.

As of today (May 5), a criminal complaint in this case does exist, but Ashton has yet to be charged with a crime. Were we living in a country in which the habeas corpus guarantee was operational, Ashton would most likely be free, and a lawsuit against his persecutors would probably be in the works.

However, the late Bush administration, with the enthusiastic support of nearly every conservative commentator and activist of any consequence, quite thoughtfully disposed of the habeas corpus guarantee. And since Ashton is being held on terrorism-related charges, his status is analogous to that of an "enemy combatant" – which is to say, he can probably be held indefinitely, and even be subjected to the same "enhanced interrogation" methods that so enchant many of the pew-defilers in conservative "Christian" congregations.

Ashton hasn't been mistreated yet, according to his mother. However, the 16-year-old – who is "in every sense still a child," in his mother's estimation – is in an environment defined by cruel, arbitrary regulations designed to break his will.

"I've been able to talk with him several times since he was taken into federal custody," Annette told me, "but there was a period of about three weeks in which I didn't hear from him, and nobody would let me talk to him. I was frantic, and my mother – she just turned 81 – had to be hospitalized for stress."

When that long silence was finally broke, Ashton explained to his mother that "he was being punished for 'moving his eyes in the lunchroom,'" Annette related in a voice heavy with incredulity. "He told me, 'Mom, all I did was try to find out what we were eating. But I got written up for moving my eyes.'"

If the case goes to trial, Ashton would be prosecuted as an adult, and would face a 15-year prison sentence. The Feds, who at this point appear to have no case, are quite likely using the leverage offered by the PATRIOT (sic) Act and similar measures to terrorize Ashton and his family into a plea bargain that would preserve the State's sense of infallibility and reinforce by precedent its ability to terrorize citizens at random.

Something of this sort took place last time a teenager was charged with terrorism under the PATRIOT (sic) Act – specifically, section 802, which makes practically any crime committed on "public" property an act of "terrorism."

Two years ago, Andrew Thomas, the demented and politically ambitious prosecutor for Arizona's Maricopa County,filed "terrorism" charges against Brent Clark, a 14-year-old delinquent from Mesa who pulled a pocketknife on a schoolmate. Thomas also charged the eighth grader with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, which seems like a sufficiently serious offense. But invoking the post-PATRIOT (sic) definition of "terrorism" helped extract a pre-emptive guilty plea from the adolescent and his family.

In Brent Clark's case, there was an actual crime committed: He threatened a girl with a knife and tried, albeit not with much ardor, to take her hostage before permitting her to flee to her home. Brent's parents apparently discovered evidence suggesting that the emotionally disturbed teenager harbored ambitions – how serious, we'll never know – of carrying out Columbine-style violence.

None of that applies in the case of Ashton Lundeby. Apart from the use of Ashton's ISP information – a fact for which he and his mother have provided a persuasive and easily inspected alibi – nothing connects the 16-year-old to a bomb threat anywhere. Under traditional Anglo-Saxon standards of evidence and due process there is no case against Ashton.

This is precisely why the Feds are apparently using the Stalinist PATRIOT (sic) Act to keep this youngster confined for as long as it takes to extort some kind of confession from him.

If they determine the situation requires such measures, the Feds can draw upon the precedent set in the case of José Padilla, the first U.S. citizen to be designated an "enemy combatant" and held indefinitely without criminal charges. In Padilla's case, federal authorities conducted a prolonged campaign of psychological torture designed not only to break his will, but literally – in the words of a Bush administration official – "to destroy Mr. Padilla's ordinary emotional and cognitive functioning in order to extract from him potentially self-incriminating information."

Annette Lundeby once attended a police academy; her late husband, as noted previously, was an employee of the Bureau of Prisons. The family's home in North Carolina is decorated with U.S. flags. The three of them are devout Christians who spend most of their free time in church-related activities. The loss of Annette's husband was a severe blow, and the continued harassment they have suffered from hackers and identity thieves is the sort of thing one reads about in the Book of Job.

But the treatment of Ashton by the Regime is like something from modern dystopian literature; indeed, Franz Kafka might find the story nearly implausible.

"This isn't America – not the America I knew, the one I grew up in," Annette told Pro Libertate. "This is like something out of a Third World dictatorship where the people in power just do whatever they want to anybody they choose. I want my son back, and I'll do anything I can to free him. But people need to know that if this isn't stopped now, any of us at anytime can be treated the same way. The next time it will be your house they visit in the middle of the night, and your children they take away."

May 6, 2009

William Norman Grigg [send him mail] writes the Pro Libertate blog.

Copyright © 2009 William Norman Grigg

Watch the video HERE!

Letterboxing~Albuquerque

Fantastyk Voyager,and my daughter and I did some letterboxing on Saturday after we participated in the San Ysidro Church Mudders Day. We had lots of fun playing with mud as we resurfaced one of the mud walls in front of the beautiful old adobe church.

And afterwards we found the following letterboxes: Oso Canyon, Hidden Park, Bataan Memorial Park, and UNM Dreams. I also helped Fantastyk Voyager find Koi Pond at the UNM Fish Pond. I had already found that 2 years ago. Wow! I've been letterboxing for two years?! Time flies!

So here's the most recent letterboxing update:

FOUND LETTERBOXES
1.Veterans' Memorial (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/12/2007
2.Koi Fish (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/12/2007
3.La Cueva Arrow (Albuquerque, NM) - 03/13/2007
4.The Netherwood Box (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/12/2007
5.Los Vaqueros (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/13/2007
6.Domingo Baca (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/13/2007
7.Rosche's Little Affair (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/15/2007
8.ABQ Sunport (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/20/2007
9.Urban Forest (Albuquerque, NM) - 3/20/2007
10.Embudo Canyon (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/2/2006
11.It's Chile Out Here! (Hatch, NM) - 4/14/2007
12.What is the Thing? (Dragoon, AZ) - 4/14/2007
13.Lordsburg (Lordsburg, NM) - 4/14/2007
14.Tombstone (Tombstone, AZ) - 4/18/2007
15.Rolling Stones (Tombstone, AZ) - 4/18/2007
16.Lincoln Park (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
17.AMARC (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
18.Fly Catcher (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
19.Going Batty II (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
20.Phainopepia (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
21.Rock Solid (Tucson, AZ) - 4/23/2007
22.1st Annual (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
23.Diamondback Crossing (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
24.Diamondback Bridge (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
25.3rd at Columbus Letterbox (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
23.Columbus Park Letterbox (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
24.Silverbell Letterbox (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
25.Crystal's Cathouse Hostel: [5 Hitchhikers] (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
26.Rolling Stones Re-Mixed (Texas Canyon, AZ) - 4/27/2007
27.Ibex Box (Deming, NM) - 4/27/2007
28.Black and White (Mystery, NM) - 5/16/2007
29.Isotopes (Albuquerque, NM) - 5/18/2007
30.Abundant Water (Ft. Stockton, TX) - 5/26/2007
31.Displaced Donkey (Ft. Stockton, TX) - 5/26/2007
32.Leaning Tower of Pease, Texas Governor Series (Austin, TX) - 5/26/2007
33.Oakwood Cemetery (Austin, TX) - 5/26/2007
34.Visual Aid (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/28/2007
35.Tee Time (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/28/2007
36.Branding Iron (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/28/2007
37.Tiger Cub-Go See It!: [2 boxes] (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/29/2007
38.Explorers Circle (The Woodlands, TX) - 5/29/2007
39.Mark by Mark (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
40.Call of the Wild (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
41.America's StoryTeller (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
42.Literary Ace (Tomball,TX) - 5/30/2007
43.Elm Creek Quilts-Quilt Block Series (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
44.Harry's Headache (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
45.The Stamp (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
46.True North (Tomball, TX) - 5/30/2007
47.Mercer Monarch (Spring, TX) - 6/2/2007
48.Grandmother's Flower Garden-Quilt Block Series (Spring, TX) - 6/2/2007
49.Panda Bear, what do you see? (Humble, TX) - 6/2/2007
50.The Pinata Box [18+ stamps!] (Humble, TX) - 6/2/2007
51.A Sssssnake Story (Humble, TX) - 6/2/2007
52.Cactus Pot (Kerrville, TX) - 6/5/2007
53.Peace on Earth (Kerrville, TX) - 6/5/2007
54.Cattle on the Mesa (Fabens, TX) - 6/5/2007
55.Windy Day (Alamagordo, NM) - 6/6/2007
56.Atari E.T.-Random Wierdness Box#3 (Alamagordo, NM) - 6/6/2007
57.Sandia Crest (Albuquerque, NM) - 6/18/2007
58.The Aliens have Landed (Socorro, NM) - 6/19/2007
59.Space Port "Take Me To Your Leader" (Truth or Consequences, NM) - 6/19/2007
60.Cabinet Box (Deming, NM) - 6/19/2007
61.Bisbee Box (Bisbee, AZ) - 6/24/2007
62.Bisbee Pass (Bisbee, AZ) - 6/24/2007
63.Doc and Brutus (Pomerene, AZ) - 6/25/2007
64.To the Bat Cave (Benson, AZ) - 6/26/2007
65.Boys of Summer (Tucson, AZ) - 6/27/2007
66.Presidio Downtown Walking Tour [3 boxe] (Tucson,AZ) - 6/27/2007
67.Crocodile Duck Dee (Tucson, AZ) - 6/28/2007
68.Tucson (Tucson, AZ) - 6/28/2007
69.Speedway (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
70.Agua Caliente (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
71.Ben's Bells (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
72.C is for Cougar (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
73.Coati Corner (Tucson, AZ) - 6/30/2007
74.San Pedro River (Sierra Vista, AZ) - 7/6/2007
75.Geology 101-'Limestone' (Vail, AZ) - 7/7/2007
76.Rincon Valley (Vail, AZ) - 7/7/2007
77.Five Minutes of my Life (Tucson, AZ) - 7/7/2007
78.Willcox Playa (Willcox, AZ) - 7/11/2007
79.Ladybug Peak (Bonita, AZ) - 7/11/2007
80.Safford Cotton (Safford, AZ) - 7/11/2007
81.Vexing Letterbox Anomaly (Mystery Box) - 7/11/2007
82.The Red Brick (Farmington, NM) - 7/22/2007
83.Downtown Moab (Moab, Utah) - 7/22/2007
84.Happy 10th,11th, 13th Birthday (Moab, Utah) - 7/22/2007
85.Choose the Right 'Pawth' (Provo, Utah) - 7/23/2007
86.Moose (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
87.Utah's State Symbol Series: Elk (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
88.Olympic Letterbox (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
89.The Swaner Box (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
90.Bark City Letterbox (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
91.Summit County Library (Park City, Utah) - 7/25/2007
92.Farmin' Fun Fer All (Salt Lake City, Utah) - 7/26/2007
93.On the Farm Series: [4 boxes] (Salt Lake City, Utah) - 7/26/2007
94.Wetlands #1 Catch & Release (Sandy, Utah) - 7/26/2007
95.Wetlands #2 Fowl Play (Sandy, Utah) - 7/26/2007
96.Utah State Symbol Series: Sego Lily (Sandy, Utah) - 7/26/2007
97.Horse Thief Trail (Moab, Utah) - 7/27/2007
98.Fish Out of Water (Moab, Utah) - 7/27/2007
99.Moab Man (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
100.Dourown Petroglyph Panel (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
101.Art on the Rocks (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
102.Newspaper Rock Box (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
103.Indian Creek Box (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
104.Hole in the Rock~Spanish Trail Box (Moab, Utah) - 7/28/2007
105.Four Corners (Four Corners, Colorado) - 7/28/2007
106.Tunnel Canyon (Tijeras, NM) - 8/23/2007
107.A Texas Acorn (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/30/2007
108.The Netherwood Box Re-Visited (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/30/2007
109.Bio Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 9/6/2007
110.A Little Scare (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
111.Araneae (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
112.Day of the Dead: Cancion de Amor (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
113.Day of the Dead: La Catrina (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
114.Double, Double Toil and Trouble (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
115.Flight 1007 (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
116.Fly by Night (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
117.I wnt 2 suk yor bl%d (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
118.I'm a Lumberjack and I'm Ok (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
119.The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
120.You've got Candy (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/6/2007
121.Rattlesnake (Albuquerque, NM) - 5/12/2008
122.Los Altos Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 5/12/2008
123.Smokey Bear (Capitan, NM) - 5/25/2008
124.Embudito:Letterboxing is for the birds (Albuquerque, NM) -7/20/2008
125.Lost Dog: German Short Hair (Albuquerque, NM) - 7/20/2008
126.Bosque:Letterboxing is for the Birds (Albuquerque, NM) - 8/11/2008
127.Roosevelt Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 9/11/08
128.Alburwocky: (Mystery Box, NM) - 9/11/08
129.Alphabetical New Mexico~Quarra (Mountainair, NM) - 10/08/08
130.Miner at the Mirador (Cerillos, NM) - 10/18/08
131.Letterboxing is for the Birds~Hawk Watch (Carnuel, NM) - 10/24/08
132.Paws & Purrs Kitten (Santa Fe) - 10/26/08
133.Paw & Purrs Puppy (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
134.Paws & Purrs Bonus Box (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
135.La Paloma (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
136.Fortitudo Dei (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
137.Giant Rebel of Eden (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
138.Bear in Mind (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
139.The Crow Knows (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
140.Are your Dogs Barking (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
141.Honor, Loyalty & Peace (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
142.Lizard Goes South (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
143.Artful Southwest: Santa Fe Style (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
144.The Art of Ebru (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
145.The Falling Leaves (Santa Fe, NM) - 10/26/08
146.1/4 of July Canyon (Tajique, NM) - 11/04/08
147.Marsh Mellow (San Antonio, NM) - 12/15/08
148.Dabbling Duck (San Antonio, NM) - 12/15/08
149.ABC New Mexico:Sand Hill Crane (San Antonio, NM) - 12/15/08
150.New Mexico in a Box (Socorro, NM) - 03/22/09
151.Pie Time (Socorro, NM) - 03/22/09
152.Oso Canyon (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009
153.Hidden Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009
154.Bataan Memorial Park (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009
155.UNM Dreams (Albuquerque, NM) - 4/25/2009

PLACED:
1.Mariposa Ranch (Rio Rancho, NM) - 3/16/2007
2.Sandia Man Cave (Placitas, NM) - 3/16/2007
3.Vikings in New Mexico (Albuquerque, NM) - 5/18/2007
4.Indian Blanket (Bernalillo, NM) - 5/20/2007
5.The Catwalk (Glenwood, NM) - 7/11/2007
6.Tijeras (Tijeras, NM) - 5/17/2008
7.DWI Memorial (Moriarty, NM)- 5/20/2008
8.Golden Eagle (Edgewod, NM) - 7/08/2008
9.Have a Javalina (Edgewood, NM) - 7/08/2008
10.The Masked Bandit (Edgewood, NM) - 7/08/2008
11.The Big "I" (Albuquerque, NM) - 7/20/2008
12.Monkey Cave (Tijeras, NM) - 11/07/2008
13.Fortune Teller (Sandia Park, NM) -03/28/2009
14.Corrales Crawdad (Corrales, NM) - 4/21/2009

HITCH HIKERS:
1.Hebrew Aleph-Bet~Zayin (Albuquerque,NM) - 3/20/2007 (Placed: "It's Chile Out There~Hatch, NM - 4/14/2007)
2.Merry Traveler (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
3.World Traveler (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
4.Reading Rocks Bookworm (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
5.Green Leaf (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
6.Sandy (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
7.The Cannonball (Tucson, AZ) - 4/26/2007
8.Reading Rocks BookWorm (Bisbee, AZ) - 6/24/2007 (Placed: "Wetlands #2 Fowl Play~Sandy, UT - 7/26/2007)
9.Mojo (Albuquerque, NM) - 7/20/2008 (Placed: "Tijeras"~Tijeras, NM - 7/27/2008)
10.Hermie Hitchhiker Cuckoo Camino (Tajique, NM) - 7/04/2008 (Placed: Alphabetical New Mexico-Quarai - 11/4/2008)
11.Moving On (Albuquerque, NM) 4/25/2009

EVENT STAMPS:
1. ¡Bienvenidos! (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
2. G is for gatherings (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
3. LBNA Map Roving Event Stamp (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
4. Santa Fe SPOOKtacular Letterboxing Event Stamp (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
5. SPOOKtacular Magic Words (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007

COOTIES:
1. Cutie Bee (Tijeras, NM) -July, 21, 2008
2.Evil Bat (Santa Fe)- October 6, 2007
3.Putting on Pounds (Santa Fe)- October 6, 2007
3.Clover (Santa Fe)- Ocober 6, 2007

PERSONAL TRAVELER STAMP EXCHANGES:
1. A Corking Carivan (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
2. Aztraveler (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
3. Cowabunga! (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
4. Gait Training (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
5. Literary Personal Traveler (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
6. No Mirrors for Me (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007
7. Sheshells (Santa Fe, NM) - Oct 6, 2007

LETTERBOXER EXCHANGES:
Lionsmane, Astro D, The Great Wuga Wuga, Rubberpeace, RBR Horno, Highwayman, Front Range Hiker, Warm Front, Cold Front, Azroadie, AZJokester, y nought, preboxed, Triple T's, South Hill Hendersons, Fantastyk Voyager, Phancy Phan Tail

Letterboxing~Fortune Teller

On Saturday I asked, Val of Fantastyk Voyage, if she would want to drive me to Tinkertown Museum so I could place a letterbox there that I'd created. Val, always up for an adventure, gladly agreed and we were on our way for the short drive up into the Sandia Mountains.

Tinkertown was created and built by Ross Ward and his wife Carla for more than 40 years. Ross's miniature wood-carved figures were first part of a traveling exhibit, driven to county fairs and carnivals in the 1960s and '70s. Today over 50,000 glass bottles form rambling walls that surround a 22-room museum. Wagon wheels, old fashioned store fronts, and wacky western memorabilia make Tinkertown's exterior as much as a museum as the wonders within. Inside, the magic of animation takes over. The inhabitants of a raucous little western town animate to hilarious life. Under the big top, diminutive circus performers challenge tigers and defy gravity while the Fat Lady fans herself and a polar bear teeters and totters.
Throughout, eccentric collections of Americana fill Tinkertown's winding hallways. Otto the one-man-band and Esmerelda, the Fortune Teller, need only a quarter to play a tune or predict your future. Through a doorway and across a ramp waits a big-sized surprise: a 35' antique wooden sailboat that braved a 10 year voyage around the world, captained by Carla Ward's own brother.
Ever a work in progress, Tinkertown is ready to inspire your imagination and awaken your creative spirit. (Copied in part from the Tinkertown website)
This map shows many of the visitors that have stopped by from around the world.
It's about time for Jenna's little red jacket to go a new little girl. But Jenna loves her jacket, even though it's a mite bit too small for her. For now, that's a battle I choose not to fight. If it makes my daughter happy, that's good enough for me. Winter will soon be over and red jacket will be forgotten. (Click photo to biggify the glass bottle wall)

What's cookin'?
I liked the horse art and Jenna liked the snake art.
An old Chuckwagon.

Val, Fantastyk Voyager was excited to see her trail name moniker as a metal sculpture.

I love this: "Live Life AS the Pursuit of Happiness"
The owner, Carla is a retired Hunter/Jumper Eventer of 14 years. We enjoyed a wonderful conversation about horses and she even gave me her old Parelli halter and rope. I was so surprised and honored and I now consider her a dear friend.

The entryway into the Gift Shop.
One of the plaques inside the museum.

Road Trip~West Central NM

We left Quemado, NM and headed north into El Malpais National Monument and Cebolla Wilderness. El Malpais means The Badlands due to the volcanic activity in the area. The land is covered in thick layers of rugged, black lava and lava tubes pock the area. The Chain of Craters Wilderness area is also nearby and begs to be explored.

This area is also bordered by both the Acoma and Zuni Pueblo Indian Reservations.
In addition the Continental Divide Trail meanders through the Wilderness and El Malpais National Monument as it travels the length of the Rocky Mountains from Mexico up to Canada.

We stopped off at The Narrows picnic area to do some exploring. Most of the rock in the area is igneous rock called Tuff, which is basically formed from volcanic ash that was spewed during pyroclastic flows about a thousand years ago.
Val had fun scrambling over the rocks.
I really like this photo of my dear friend Val. She looks so beautiful in this natural setting.
Like me, Val loves to hike and explore. I can't wait until I can join her this summer when my knee is stronger. (click pic to biggify)
Be careful on those curves or you'll end up like Tippy Truck!
This gorgeous Tuff was such a lovely pink color.
Through The Narrows we had black lava on one side of the road and these steep, impressive cliffs rising directly beside us on the other side.
The Sawtooth Mountains face West and we were there the perfect time of day: Sunset.
There were mysterious caves tucked into the cliffs, too.
The Sawtooth Mountains of New Mexico, touched by the setting sun, glowed a warm red, as if the color was emanating from the inside of the rock.
These gorgeous mountains stretched on for several miles.
We couldn't get enough of the amazing rock formations.
I just stuck my camera out the window, as we drove down the road, and kept my finger on the shutter, snapping photo after photo.
As the sun went down the shadows lengthened.
The road twisted and turned with breathtaking views in every direction, yet not another car on the road.
As we rounded a bend La Ventana Arch revealed itself to us in all it's grandeur.
Information about this must-see area (click pic for a larger view)
Val and I couldn't get enough of admiring all these impressive and beautiful rocks and cliffs. We were like a couple of young girls so excited.
Information on how La Ventana Arch was formed. (click to biggify)
A close-up.
Apparently there are more elk living in West Central New Mexico, than people. Over 70,000 elk call this area home.
We were amazed how these 50-100 ft Ponderosa pine trees could grow right out of the rocks in these cliffs.
These are very similar to the Tent Rocks, also formed by volcanic ash (tuff), located in the Jemez Mountains in Central New Mexico.
Check out these huge Ponderosa pine trees!
It appears as if our road dead-ends at that wall.
But then the road makes a quick turn.
We were losing light and the sun was setting.
We drove Interstate 40 through Albuquerque, on the way back home.

Letterboxing Road Trip~ West Central NM

Whoowee! I don't think I realized how many photos I took from our road trip adventure. I've even deleted half of them! And I've still got bunches to share here, of which I'll do in two parts, so noone's eyes glaze over. hah!

My horse riding friend/letterboxing buddy, Val of Fantastyk Voyage invited me to join her on a road trip/letterboxing adventure along with her Mom and Sister-in-Law(SIL). The plans were originally just to drive out to Pie Town to find a letterbox and enjoy a slice of the famous pie, but we discovered that Pie Town is completely shut down on Sundays, so we decided to focus on letterboxing.

Our first letterbox was called New Mexico in a Box placed in the perfect locale. We found the letterbox and it's very appropriate hand-carved stamp and clever logbook, in a box canyon not far from Socorro, NM. I was a little envious that Val was able to do some rock scrambling and exploring as that is something I enjoy, too. But she was a good sport willing to pose for pictures. (Thanks Val!)
After leaving The Box we decided to listen to our tummies that had been growling very loudly and we headed into the little prairie town of Magdalena, NM, which is surrounded by National Forest and Wilderness.

I noticed this little fiber shop and just had to get a picture. See the llama and angora goat, and the cute sheep?
This house also caught my eye. Many of the buildings and homes are historic and beautifully unique.
We enjoyed driving down different roads all around town. We just never knew what we might see.
(His tummy was empty, too)
Hmmmm. Very anatomically correct.
I thought this adobe wall, literally 'hand'made, was beautiful.
We were all tickled to stumble upon this cowboy, whom we fondly named Rusty. Val finally found her a rough and rugged cowboy. Though, she may need a tetanus shot if she goes any farther with the relationship. (Jeez, that baggy shirt and those wrinkly pants make me look so fat! Yukko!)


Sorry Rusty. It just wasn't meant to be.

I was very impressed with Magdalena's re-use/recycling efforts of turning the old train depot into a handsome, historic library.

Well we just couldn't wait any longer to satisfy our hunger and we stopped at the only restaurant open in town.
First on the table was a plate full of delicious handmade tortilla chips and spicy, flavorful salsa. Yummo!
Val's SIL ordered fried shrimp. (I know! Who orders seafood in a middle-of-nowhere restaurant in New Mexico? Days away from any ocean, no less! hah! SIL said they were yummy, though. I took her word for it.)
Because I ordered the best Navajo Taco I have ever eaten in my life! The sopapilla was soft and wonderfully handmade. I ordered it with 'Christmas', which in "New Mexico Speak" is red chile and green chile served together. Oh my gosh, talk about a 'food-gasm'. I was right there, baby!
(Wipe that drool of your chin my friend!)
Val ordered a Green Chile Cheeseburger, which she said tasted great. The cheese was a little weird, though. (Click photo to bigefy)
Val's Mom ordered a scrumptious Enchilada, also with 'Christmas'. Mmmmmm!

After we finished our meals (my first restaurant meal since my injury, by the way) we waddled out of the Ponderosa Restaurant and explored Magdalena a little more.

The old bank building on Main street.
I saw a sign for the Old Stock Shipping Yards and was so excited to check it out. (Click pic to biggefy)
I swear I could almost hear the sounds and smells of the cowboys, horses, sheep and the cattle along with the steam and whistling sounds of the train still lingering like ghosts.
There were a few horses at the far end that were being kept in one of the pens. So cool!
The place was just sprawling more than an acre. Unfortunately I wasn't able to climb down in there to explore, but Val did and even posed for a picture in one of the ramp chutes.


We left Magdalena and drove a little farther on to find a letterbox and visit the famous Very Large Array (VLA).
I've been here a number of times over the past 18 years and Ranchman John's father even spent time here years ago working on site. It's always very windy here on the Plains of San Augustin.
It's quite a spectacle to see as you drive across the plains.
A very unique place, definetely a location to place on your Bucket List.

We always see lots of wildlife when we visit, including herds of Pronghorn Antelope.


I'm very grateful for my camera's zoom...zoom!
This is where the NRAO works on the huge radio telescopes. Can you see Val and I down there?
The machines used to move and work around the telescopes were very cool.

It's impressive to get up close to these huge structures.

Near the visitor center we noticed a coyote on the prowl.
Everywhere we looked we saw Jack Rabbits being flushed out of their hiding places. The coyote kept his eye out for an easy meal.
He moved on across the tracks that are used to move the radio telescopes across the plains. (click pic to biggify)
This guy said, "Whew! Coyote's gone"

When it was time to leave the VLA, we experienced some traffic.
A Bovine Train
This little one was so cute! Y'all know how much I love me an 'orca-colored' critter.
And just check out this guy. I named him Norman (Remember City Slickers?)


Looking in her pretty doe eyes, I could hear her thinking, "Ok lady, can you move on and stop pointing that black box at me? Sheesh. Hooomans!"

We were finally on our way driving west on 60 towards Pie Town. There were the typical beautiful New Mexico vistas everywhere we looked.
(Click any of the pics to biggify)


We crossed over the Continental Divide at 8,000 ft elevation right before we scooted into Pie Town. Only two restaurants serve Pie Town and they both serve pie....but not on Sunday. (sob)
I was still a good sport and pretended to eat pie.
We found the cleverly hidden letterbox, and it's lovely hand carved stamp easily and Val even posed for a photo on "main street" in front of Daily Pie Cafe. There were only 3 buildings on 'main street' an two served pie. (we did find a broken Easy Boot on the ground in front of the truck. Do you see it below the 'R'? It was nice to know horses had been there.)
We were all surprised to find out that, when the restaurants are open their pies cost $5-6 a slice and $20.00 a pie. Whew! It must be some good pie! I do look forward to coming back for some one day.

We left Pie Town and headed North West towards Quemado, NM where we stopped for a snack and a photo of this attractive stone church.

To be Continued...........