After having Tyler here for a month it was time for him to return home. We started out at 3pm Friday and arrived in LaGrange, KY 12 hours later. Yes, we were tired.
On Saturday we gathered our letterboxing gear and ventured forth. Gosh, I couldn't believe how cold it was outside. Be we weren't deterred and found lots of boxes. We only did drive by because of the cold but visited some really unique places.
Journal and Hitch Hiker. Told Doug we need to design something to facilitate letterboxing in a small car that fits between me and the glove box.
First Stop Pewee Valley - where we found this marker. As a lover of vintage childrens book's this was particularly sweet.
Annie Fellows Johnston, a celebrated author of children's and juvenile fiction from the 1890's until her death in 1931, is best known for her "Little Colonel" series, a semi biographical opus of 13 novels dealing with the aristocracy of old Kentucky, particularly the story of a young girl, who came to be known as "The Little Colonel." You may recall the Little Colonel - Shirley Temple portrayed.
Directly across from the caboose and marker is this darling playhouse.
What a unique place to hid a letterbox. The clues were particularly interesting.
ON THE TOP STEP OF THE OLD STEPS UNDER THE TOP STEP OF THE NEW STEPS AT THE BACK OF THE LAST TRAIN CAR IN FRONT OF THE PLAYHOUSE ON THE CORNER OF 146 AND 362
Our next stop found us at this sweet little red church practically hidden from the road and behind of all things a kitchen home improvement store with the drive way blocked by the company trucks.
This was a toughy as I didn't have a compass and it was very over cast. But I figured since the road ran north and south that 250 was just about over there. Except when I got "there" I found a geo cache. Eventually, I found the right cluster of trees and grabbed my find.
Thank goodness Joseph Gividen pointed the way.
Wasn't quite sure what this was all about but being a lover of cemeteries I couldn't pass it up.
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