Trexx meets a fellow Boxing Buddy, B.B.

Trexx the Turtle was very excited to attend the 3rd Annual Gotta' Box! Have you Hurd?! letterboxing event May 31st at Hurd State Park in East Hampton, CT.

Here he got to meet Boxing Buddy, B.B. and Purple Penguin (the unstuffed one). So much fun! Thanks Kit Kat 61 for the photos.

Trexx with Team New Hampshire

Trexx visits with Team New Hampshire's youngest members and their boxing buddies, Hunter and Hamlet.

Trexx felt like a celebrity with all the helpful hands to carry him down the trail!Always nice to have someone carry you on your back like a Turtle Shell.

Trexx meets Great Connecticut boxers, Rubaduc and Gizz

Trexx is not keen on cold weather letterboxing being a cold-blooded turtle, but he was excited about getting back out on the trails and meeting the amazing, Gizz and Rubaduc. (I did have to twist their arms to get them to take the picture; what troopers!)

Trexx gets new hiking boots

I know it's frowned upon to take candy from a baby, but what about hiking boots? Check out Presto! (in the green stripes) fancy hiking boots. He's already trying to get mine. Q Bee (in the red) is opting for more fancy footwear...maybe later.

What do you think? I never liked having Build-a-Bear imprinted across my boots. I am not a bear, indeed!

Trexx makes his way to New England

Trexx finally admits to his private relationship to Marjorie at the New England Scrap Meet event on March 6th when they openly are seen together.

Trexx meets the newest boxer Q Bee

Travel'n Turtle's littlest boxer, Q Bee is just 2 months old and still smaller than a letterboxing buddy turtle! We're going to have to see if those turtle clothes fit him next.

Q Bee's name was chosen by his big sister, Laney Bug, who thought there needed to be another insect in the family. He has helped locate over 20 letterboxes, 10 for each month of his life; wish we could all boast that record!

Trexx goes to the DUMMB event

Trexx was very excited to get to go to Marysville, Ohio to the DUMMB event and meet some young boxers. Pictured with him here are The Vogt Family's Fairy Queen and Toot Toot. Such nice young boxers!

Trexx goes boxing with The Early Birds, DDDCMJ Express, and Travel'n Turtle

What started as a warm 50° rainy November day turned ugly. One of the Early birds (in pink), the "M" of DDDCMJ Express (holding Trexx), and Travel'n Turtle headed to the Fremont area for a day of carefree boxing! (If you want to see this milk can sign come box in Boneyard Recorder's backyard).

Trexx was smart enough to stay in the car for most of the soggy day, wet turtles can really get stinky. We headed out early and found over 30 boxes. We started out with some rainy hiking and realized that we'd prefer drive-bys when the temperature dropped to 30° and the snow started. We were soaked through and no longer wanted to brave the elements.

It was so much fun; we thank Boneyard Recorder for all her plants in the area. We boxed all day and still need to return again to get the rest. It was neat to see all the different boxer's stamps in this area, thanks to all planters worldwide!

Trexx meets MaddieCool and Shorstuff

While out letterboxing after Halloween Trexx met up with new boxers: Mommie2candm (not pictured), MaddieCool and ShorStuff. Also in the photo is Trexx's side kick, Laney Bug.

Trexx visits Canada

Trexx had always wanted to visit Niagara Falls. After some convincing he decided to take the Maid of the Mist boat trip into the Horseshoe Falls rather than try the barrell (like a shell) over the falls. After a soggy day in Niagara Falls Trexx's headed to Toronto to do some letterboxing and siteseeing.

He was joined with fellow boxers, Travel'n Turtle, Laney Bug (from Ohio) and Ukusa and Sloppy Chops (from England). As well as some English Noxers, Redmond (Sloppy's son), and Tracy.

That's Tracy and Red with Trexx at High Park right near the Grenadier Pond letterbox. Lovely park with lots of beautiful stamps thanks to Fiddleheads, a local boxer.

On the way home to Ohio Trexx, Laney Bug and Travel'n Turtle stopped by a tiny church located near Niagara Falls to locate another wonderful stamp and see the cutest church!

Trexx meets MomMelMeg in Ohio

MomMelMeg's littlest boxers visit The Changing of Season's Garden Box of Travel'n Turtle. (Don't look to closely, it might help find this mystery box.)

Laney Bug (holding Boxing Buddy: Young Filly), Hugs (holding Trexx), and Little Filly looking on. These are old boxing buddy friends who like to get together and go boxing!

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.