The Zen Life

One of the all-time coolest activities we have gotten into this year is Letterboxing. It is like a treasure hunt--complete with clues! The treasure is a box that contains a journal and a stamp.
Each letterboxer (or letterboxing team--our family is a team) has their own journal and stamp (ours is shown above).

We use a couple letterboxing websites to find the clues for letterboxes in our area (or in an area where we are visiting/vacationing), and then a-hunting we go!

Once we find the letterbox (not an easy feat), we stamp the letterbox stamp into our team journal along with a date and a note or two about the quest to find it.





We stamp our family stamp into the letterbox journal, and sign our names, date and where we are from.These are just some of the Letterboxing Stamps we have found!

The boys just love going to find letterboxes around our city.

They love the National Treasure movies and there is a similarity to that!
They love trying to solve the clues and hunting for a hidden "treasure"! Heck--so do Mike and I!!!!

We found this "altered" stop sign while letterboxing in Syracuse. Mike turned the car around after we had passed it so that we could get a picture of it! Quite the "treasure" to find!!

After the 7th and final Harry Potter book came out, a handful of the stop signs in our neighborhood were "altered" to say "Stop Voldemort"! We LOVED those signs! (They have since been replaced and we miss them.)