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Letterboxing!

August 21st, 2008

On Sunday I went Letterboxing. I got the idea from this article in the Courier. A friend and I went followed this clue to a forest preserve I never knew existed–Voyager’s Landing.

We had to climb up and down a lot of small yet steep hills to get to the hidden box.

Finally, a letterbox!

It had lots of stamps in it from other people who had found it over the past two years.

There were two boxes hidden, but we only found one. We weren’t sure what “a sleeping giant” in the clue referred to–another tree?

Tags: Elgin, forest preserve, fun, letter box, letterbox, letterboxing, nature, outdoors, photography, photos, Voyager's Landing
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I love you forest preserve!

May 13th, 2008

Here are photos from a recent visit to Burnidge & Paul Wolff Forest Preserve in Elgin. I recently printed some of my past forest preserve photos and put them up in my apartment and several guests thought I bought them! I’m not the best photographer, so that just shows how beautiful this forest preserve is.

My favorite.

Pretty sure I was lost when I took this one.

Is it sick that I wish this bench got wifi?

The forest preserve even makes construction look pretty.

Tags: Burnidge, Elgin, forest preserve, grass, Illinois, nature, Paul Wolff, sky, trees, water
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Mosquitoes?!

April 4th, 2008

Yesterday I walked around the forest preserve and thought I saw a mosquito. I convinced myself it must’ve been a look-alike. “Too early for mosquitoes,” I told myself.

Well just now I took my dog around the block and saw a mosquito! It was buzzing right around my head! Seriously? Someone tell me I’m hallucinating.