Plunging straight into Letterboxing - American style

My Cousin Turtle has arrived safely and has immediately been plunged into letterboxing American style. She has already met and done exchanges with Oldhounder, Siamese and The Merry Pranksters. It was very exciting to do exchanges as this is something not done in England, she really felt that she was abroad at last. Dale End Farm also took Turtle on a letterboxing expedition with them which she really enjoyed, and she is starting to learn the names of the American types of tree which are used in the clues.

Setting Off

My Cousin Turtle was very excited and apprehensive today as she was about to embark on the first of her journeys. She is going to travel all the way to Massachusetts. The last few days she had been busy studying the atlas, finding out exactly where Massachusetts is in that enormous country, The United States of America. The State did not seem too large, compared to some of the others. Thankfully it had a coast line, so she would be able to swim all the way there from England. Those famous Goggle Map directions, that had recently been passing around AQ, didn't seem so hilarious now that they were happening for real!

Rather reassuring was the feeling that she knew something about her host, and would be able to recognise her. Dale End Farm had been interviewed in that most famous Letterboxing Movie - Fright Night 2 (well, famous movie to anyone in the Letterboxing World, but maybe just a mere podcast to the rest of the world). Fright Night 2 had been replayed several times during the weekend in order to study everything closely.

Finally the moment arrived. Strapping on her backpack which contained her signature stamp, and tucking her logbook into the Royal Mail padded envelope to travel ahead of her, she set off to start her long swim to the good 'ol US of A :-)