Moving to Alaska: Day Five

Today is the first designated "short day" I am actually doing less driving and more letterboxing just for a change of pace. So the day started by visiting Eisenhower State Park to get a couple boxes then continuing on to Lake Murray State Park in Oklahoma (hello state #49) for the rest of the day.

I really don't have a lot of commentary or pictures for the day. Lake Murray was not very wet since I would walk over bridges with no water beneath them. One thing I did NOT like about letterboxing here is that the boxes were more often than not a what I felt poorly designed series. You would walk for a mile or two finding some along the way and then you were just done, the clues ended, or they would have something like "ok now go all the way back to the first bridge" which meant some long walks with nothing to break it up. The worst one was a clue that even said something like "walk until the next bridge. It took me about 20 minutes so just keep going" and they were about right on that estimate. Then after finding that one, they say "now walk back to the first bridge" which was about 30 minutes walk back the way you had just come. So a 45-50 minute walk for one box in the middle of a series, which seemed weird to me.

By far the most interesting revelation of the day for me personally is that long letterboxing days alone are not really that fun to me any longer. I have felt this way when boxing in Alaska before since when I would go visit Thao, she would go to work and I would just entertain myself but at a certain point it stops being fun and starts being something I am just doing to pass the time. So when I felt that way, I just decided to call it a day. Luckily I don't really have any more long solo days that are focused on letterboxing on the trip.

Start: Denison, Texas

Stop: Ardmore, Oklahoma

~130 Miles Driven

~10.4 Miles Walked
26 Letterboxes Found

8 Letterboxes Not Found

0 Letterboxes Planted

Pictures will be posted on Facebook in this album (and the link will be included in all future posts for this trip):

Moving to Alaska Photos