The Hounds of Boxerville

Thomas and I were invited by Mark and Sue Pepe to join a group of letterboxers for a Pinecone Adventure to Dartmoor. This is the third Pinecone Adventure to the Moors and our first. We are so incredibly happy and honored to be traveling with this group to the birthplace of letterboxing. Our trip takes place from August 28 - September 11, 2014. This blog will chronicle the trip as well as activities before and after the trip.

Pinecone Adventures Returns to the Moor with The Hounds of Boxerville.

The road in front of us grew bleaker and wilder over huge russet and olive slopes, sprinkled with giant boulders. Now and then we passed a moorland cottage, walled and roofed with stone, with no creeper to break its harsh outline.
- from The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Thursday, October 31, 2013

Continued Reading and Planning


So here is an update on the trip to Dartmoor. Mark P. has set up a Yahoo Talk List for this trip so that everyone going on the trip can communicate with each other in one place. So far on the Talk List there has only been a welcome note from Mark P. and a couple of polls to see if we would be interested in a visit to a castle and a river boat ride. It seems that Mark P. is very much into the planning stages.

Also I ordered a few more books . . . About Dartmoor, Dartmoor (Collins Rambler's Guide), and The Magic of Dartmoor. I've spent some time reading some of the books that I have received and I am enjoying learning about Dartmoor. Hopefully I can remember some of the stuff I have read. Maybe I need to start taking notes so I have that information for the trip.

Thomas and I have been discussing if we want to add some days to the trip and visit friends that we have in Brighton and also take a few days to visit London (one of our favorite cities). We still haven't made any decisions but I feel that since we are there we should take the time to do it. Anyway, that's all that happened in the past month regarding the trip. I will post again next month with updates.

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