Letterboxing

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Letterboxing is our family's newest passion. We discovered our first one this past week while on Spring Break at Tyler State Park. It is awesome and my 13 and 10 year old boys loved it!! Basically it is a treasure hunt with easy enough directions, which teaches mapping and following directions, and also encourages the family to work together. You can look up any location in the U.S. and see if there are Letterboxes near you. There are about 16 letterboxes right here in Tyler! Then, you follow the directions and take a stamp pad and your "family" stamp and a book. When you find it, you mark your book and the book in the box and you can keep track of everywhere you have travelled. The website is www.letterboxing.org Check it out, and happy hunting!!!