Letterboxing at JFK

The twelve letterboxers from around the U.S. met at Gate 45 at JFK airport in New York to make our way to Italy for the Viva Italia Letterboxing Tour. The group of boxers consists of Mark & Sue Pepe from Connecticut (who organized this trip), the lazy letterboxer & the letterboxing ham from Massachusetts (Deanne & Dave), sewsewbizzzy from Virginia (Judy), ggghiker from Illinois & EdieSoCal from California (Toni and Edie), The Seeker from Alaska (Cheri, aka Nana C – from Nana C and the Seedlings), Grumpy Grinch from California (Frank & Susie) and lionsmane & highwayman from New Mexico (me and Thomas).

At JFK

Deanne made everyone a journal that she made with the event stamp on the cover. She also provided each of us a signature stamp of our trail name in Italian – both were a nice surprise. So everyone wanted to get the Italian signature stamps in our journals – so the stamping ensued. We all got each others Italian signature stamps and then the lazy letterboxer brought out the stamp she carved for the front of the logbooks she made which she decided would be the event stamp - so we all stamped into that one as well. Once everyone had all these stamps we talked about some of the stamps people were going to hide while in Italy. I have seven boxes, sewsewbizzy has eleven, the Seeker has four and Mark Pepe has two. Some of the boxes were going to be planted right away so we stamped into a few of those so that we could have the images. It was a quick stamping in and once we were done we put all the ink away and just waited for our flight. Hopefully more boxing news to come. You can read about the entire trip and not just about letterboxing at Viva Italia Letterboxing Tour.