Some of you may be familiar with the books and images because of Kitten Without Mitten's 'A Morbid Affair' event back in 2007, which was entirely focused around these books and those images. BfloAnonChick has been aching to get a lot of those Bunny Suicides stamps from that event, but alas, many are retired, and many are simply missing, leaving her with only two or three still in place, and a whole bunch of Bunny boxes filling up her search screen and teasing her :DThis brings us to why she was telling me about the new 6-box series that was recently planted. Knowing her affinity for road trips and her desire to have bunny boxes in her book, I innocently suggested a Bunny Suicides Mass. trip. After some intial amusement and debate over gas money, it was decided that this was a doable idea.
So, yesterday morning I found myself waking up at 3am and getting ready to go to Massachusetts on my first random letterboxing road trip. Bag packed, BfloAnonChick picked me up shortly after 4am, and we headed out on the road.
We made brief stops in Pembroke, NY to snag Turkeyfeathers' box 'Play Ball!', Syracuse, NY for one of Lock Wench's 'Leprechaun's Revenge' series boxes, box #5, and Canajoharie, NY for GreatBigSeabres' box 'Anime Bikini Babe'.
It was at one of these rest stops where I stopped to take my first random picture of the day; as a huge Nintendo fan, I couldn't help but want a shot of this pickup truck and trailer I spotted as we were getting ready to leave.
Once over the border, BfloAnonChick was quick to find a service area to pull over at in order to buy out a store's supply of Vanilla Crack-er, I mean, Coke. It seems that it's her favorite flavor, but very rarely makes appearances in our hometown of Buffalo, NY. So anytime she heads out of state to the Northeast, she makes sure to buy a supply to subsist on for a while at home.While there, we also stopped and found our first Massachusetts box for the day (my first MA box ever), Arf!'s 'Lee Plaza'.
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fter the long drive, we arrived in Holyoke, Massachusetts somewhere around noonish, and drove ourselves to the McLean Water Reservoir, where our desired boxes reside. We packed our bags, grabbed our clues and drinks, and headed off to the trail to get our Bunny boxes.Despite the sign saying no trespassing, apparently hiking and walking are permitted, which is great, because it's a great hike with a nice little view. The 6 box series takes you around the whole water reservoir, the whole trail is very flat and straightforward, and a great spot for these boxes.
The series doesn't take long at all to do (the planter, nosox, only left a logbook in the final box for the series) and the images are well carved and seriously funny.
In addition, each of the stamps was labeled on the back with more than just an arrow indicating which was was up- each had it's own cute little fluffy bunny! Both BfloAnonChick and I were so amused by this we had to take pictures.
And, as we discovered when we found the final box and logged in, we got to be First Finders! Which was exciting, considering we were from out of state and the boxes were 4-5 days old :D
After we finished up with the Bunny Suicides, we crammed back into the car and headed over to Mt. Tom, looking to go after a few boxes there. However, as we were driving over to find Mt. Tom, a wrong turn luckily took us past an interesting sign, which we had to pull out and check out.
Dinosaur Footprints? How cool! So we stopped the car, went over to read the information bulletin board, and walked down the short trail to the rocks in which dinosaur footprints are forever left impressed into.
A pretty cool random find, if I do say so myself :D I snapped a few shots of a footprint as well as a shot of a set of footprints colored in with chalk.
Once we found Mt. Tom, onward we headed, onward and upward...and upward...and upward. Turns out, when BfloAnonChick printed the clues to these boxes, she hadn't quite grasped the magnitude of the incline for the hike, so by the time we were at about a mile, we were ready to stop and crash.
Luckily for us, we weren't the only boxers to feel that way :D Emajn5 had gone after the same boxes some time before us, and on the way back down, planted one for letterboxers such as us. So it was there we stopped for our first (and only) box at Mt. Tom, 'Mt. Tom - On The Fly'. After a slight rest to regain energy and our breathe, we turned around and headed back down, stopping only to plant a letterbox of my own for other letterboxers seeking these series to find (and hopefully give them a quick respite from the incline). As such, my new box 'Blue Rose and a Knotted Heart' can now be found on route for 'On The Fly' as well as 'Castles In The Air #4'.
At this point, we were tired and starving, so we headed back to the car and over to Red Robin to scarf some food, and made a pit stop at a Barnes and Noble before hitting the highway once more to head home.
En route back, we stopped for four more boxes: Arf!'s 'Highway Robbery!' (Blanford, Mass), GreatBigSeabres' 'Slow Poke'in Verona, NY, and Turkeyfeathers' boxes 'Kidnapped' (Victor, NY) and 'Magic Eraser' (Henrietta, NY).
Shortly before one of those last two boxes, we pulled over for a rest, as we'd had an exhausting day. BfloAnonChick was all tuckered out :D
Tired, we eventually pulled back into Buffalo and got home around 1:30am, bringing our total box finds for the day to 15 (slightly less for BfloAnonChick, who already had several of the rest stop boxes, but who was letting me get them). But a highly successful random letterboxing road trip, indeed!
