Ever heard of the show called “Connections”? Well, it’s sort of like that for me, the connection was a Scout Show to Geocaching. But the tale isn’t as direct as one might think.
Our Cub Scout Pack was hosting both at the Scout Show last year and we needed a rubber stamp to stamp the boys “passports” as they completed the activity at the booths. Well I didn’t want to buy one, that’s not the true scouting way, so I searched the web on how to carve a stamp.
I searched the web and found a site by this gentleman who told how he carves rubber stamps but I still didn’t get clued in. I did how ever make a rather nice stamp for the show that no other pack would have.
A few weeks after the show I went back to the site to find out why this fellow did it and that led me to Letterboxing. Wow, something new to try out! But sadly there just weren’t that many letterboxes in the area and I didn’t know enough about them to place one.
This of course led me to Geocaching and discovering that there were many more caches in the area than letterboxes. But it wasn’t till this February when I got my GPS device that I was able to join in. I’m still young to the sport with twelve finds but I know that I will be doing this for some time to come.
The Friendly Wizard
Carrollton, Texas
