Trexx flies back to the U.S. and heads to the beach

From Overcast, cool England with it's mysterious moors and lovely country side views to Oak Island, North Carolina. Which is hot, sunny and picturesque in a completely different way.

Totally different type of letterboxing, but still a lot of fun. This is Trexx, Blue Bunny and Farley's last adventure together; when the weekend is over the two visiting buddies head home. Trexx is careful to slather sunscreen on Farley and Blue Bunny and takes them to some exciting spots.

Oak Island has lots of peaceful, under used parks that are great for letterboxing. There is also an extremely fun series by MnMs4 that takes you on a trail that actually goes onto a beach. You'll see the picture here with the water on it. That was the trail when we returned; high tide had obviously come in! We had to wade across; such letterboxing adventures!

Boxing in Mousehole and Penzance

The Cornwall coast has lots of darling, picturesque fishing villages to visit. Two that we visited were Mousehole (home of two letterboxes) and Penzance of Pirate fame (home of one letterbox). The buddies were very excited to visit pirate territory!

We all enjoyed the letterboxing, looking through shops, the famous Cornish Vanilla ice cream and Cream Teas. Delicious and fun! The weather was very similar to San Francisco, with a chill in the air coming off the water.

Laney Bug was very excited to send a postcard by "Letterbox". Okay, she hadn't a clue, but mom, Travel'n Turtle was excited!

Tintagel Castle ~ King Arthur's birthplace

On the beautiful cost of Cornwall we visited Tintagel. The town and castle ruins are a wonderful spot to visit. Besides it's too great letterboxes! Pictured above, twins, Travel'n Turtle and Ukusa.

Below is a picture of Travel'n Turtle with one of the two letterboxes at this spectacular spot. The other photos are taken while stamping in!

Letterboxing on the Cornish Moors

Surrounded by cow pastures and brooding gray clouds the letterboxing on the moors was exotic fun. We had to find an Ordinance Survey map of the area (thank goodness Ukusa found one hanging in the laundry room at the place we were staying.) to locate this letterbox.

Fortunately we were on holiday and had plenty of time to hunt; we were not going home empty handed. Once we found the start to the clues Bob was our Uncle! :o) The boxing buddies had it easy by being carried. We had to pick up Laney Bug (the human child) at times due to heavy plant growth, but Badger (the black & white child) plowed through it all. He even got himself stuck in a stile at one point!

We had to do some heavy-duty wading to get to the final box resting spot, but it was well worth it. This was the most attractive spot we've stamped in to date!

Laney Bug, Travel'n Turtle, Ukusa and Badger getting inky fingers and paws!

Letterboxing Buddies on Holiday in Cornwall

After attending Ukusa and Sloppy Chops wedding outside of London, we headed to Cornwall, England where we stayed in small stone cottages.

Pictured outside of one of the cottages Travel'n Turtle (in pink), Ukusa (twin in black), Sloppy Chops (big guy), Laney Bug (cute girl), Badger (Black & White furry guy)

Boxing Buddies: Blue Bunny, Trexx and Farley.

For those of you who don't know England well (me, before I left for this trip), Cornwall is at the bottom of the country. It is very desolute in some areas, but very pretty. Letterboxing in this area is completely different from any other place.

Letterboxing took us to some beautiful places we would never have seen otherwise. The buddies had an awesome time seeing the sights as we stamped in. They weren't so good at locating boxes.

Trexx travels around England

Laney Bug (in red) brings Boxing Buddy: Blue Bunny (from Hong Kong) to visit England. She meets up with Boxing Buddy: Farley (from West Virginia) who is being held by Candyland (in green).

Candyland takes the three, plus Trexx and Travel'n Turtle out boxing locally in Essex, England.

Letterboxing in England is very familiar, but also quite different. We didn't have to worry about Poison Ivy, but the berry brambles were everywhere!

Also we came across a few stiles (a wooden "staircase" used for humans to move from pasture to pasture without allowing the animals out). See Laney Bug climbing over one!

We visited Crowsheath Community Woodland and Crowsheath Wood Nature Preserve. The area around Ukusa's home, where we were staying was surrounded by parks and open land; very lovely and great for letterboxing!

This last picture is Travel'n Turtle retrieving one of her own letterboxes from the American Wildlife series that Ukusa had hidden. This one was "safe" from muggles hidden in a berry bramble!