The Hounds of Boxerville

Thomas and I were invited by Mark and Sue Pepe to join a group of letterboxers for a Pinecone Adventure to Dartmoor. This is the third Pinecone Adventure to the Moors and our first. We are so incredibly happy and honored to be traveling with this group to the birthplace of letterboxing. Our trip takes place from August 28 - September 11, 2014. This blog will chronicle the trip as well as activities before and after the trip.

Pinecone Adventures Returns to the Moor with The Hounds of Boxerville.

The road in front of us grew bleaker and wilder over huge russet and olive slopes, sprinkled with giant boulders. Now and then we passed a moorland cottage, walled and roofed with stone, with no creeper to break its harsh outline.
- from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Monday, September 30, 2013

An Invitation to Attend a Letterboxing Trip to Dartmoor

Thomas and I have gone on two Pinecone Adventures with Mark and Sue Pepe and we have really enjoyed those trips. During the Pincone Adventures' Letterboxing Cruise to Alaska!!! and the Viva Italia Letterboxing Tour!!! I talked with Mark about including us if they ever planned another trip to Dartmoor. So when I received an email from Mark earlier this month inviting us on a trip they were planning for next year I didn't hesitate making a commitment - even without talking to Thomas first. So in August 2014 we are traveling with Pinecone Adventures for the Pinecone Adventures Returns to the Moor.

After signing up on the event listing on Atlas Quest I immediately started planning (not that there is that much to do - since Mark is actually making all the arrangements) by reading different websites and blogs (which I will list in the sidebar). I also ordered some books and travel information. I ordered a Dartmoor patch and postcard and I also got the Dartmoor OS Explorer Map OL28. In addition to these things I ordered the following books . . . 101 Dartmoor Letterboxes: But Not How to Find Them, Dartmoor National Park Guide, Cranmere Pool, Dartmoor Letterboxes, More Dartmoor Letterboxes, Dartmoor National Park: A Pictorial Souvenir, and The Great Little Dartmoor Book. Next I got a year subscription to Dartmoor Magazine (4 issues). And I don't know if I had a feeling this trip was coming or not but back in August I ordered Let's Go Letterboxing: A Beginner's Guide - wasn't that a happy coincidence. I will occasionally write posts during the coming year as we make plans and arrangements and I will post each day of our trip. This will give me a good record of the trip and something I can go back and read when I am missing the Moors. Besides the sidebar links to information about Dartmoor and letterboxing you can click on the book in the sidebar and go to a complete bibliography of the books and other items I am using for this trip.

So far Mark has just extended the invitations and let us know he will be communicating more information soon. I am really excited about this trip and it is something I have dreamed about since I started letterboxing back in 2006. Before long the dream will be a reality - I can't wait! Oh, and Bell Motel emailed me to let me know she was going on the trip as well - WooHoo!!!


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