New LTC tracker: due by October 1, 2025

https://www.atlasquest.com/showinfo.php?trackerId=12010

That was brilliant!!! :-D

I would have been thoroughly fooled, but that isn't saying much ;-) Thanks for showing me your brilliance!

I have one question...
WHY IS WASHI TAPE SO ADDICTING?? LOL

I reached out to Speedball company a while back and asked them if I could melt down my scraps to reuse them: I got a very legally worded and firm 'NO - don't do it, bad chemicals would kill everyone message' back. I was bummed that I had saved a huge bucket of shavings with no hope to reuse them. Still kinda want to try it one day (in a very well ventilated space and someone else's kitchen appliances).

I look forward to AQ's April 1st updates every year! Thanks for the smiles!

Just Catching up on this thread since Letter boxing itself (apart from Ameriquest) has no official rules just recognized etiquette and good practice. I don't believe you could be banned,( just keep to yourself).

However, since the Phoenix is a mythology creature which is associated with mythologies from foreign nations, it is a national threat you will have to change your trail name under AmeriQuest rules to use this important patriotic website. Sorry.

- Mush

Google has recently changed how they charge for the use of Google Maps and related products, and what used to be free for AQ to use is now costing actual money--so, I've turned it into a premium member perk.

Sorry for those who aren't premium members. It's not you--it's Google! They charged based on how much use it gets, so the fewer mapping requests they get from AQ, the less it costs! Since premium members are paying for it, I'll keep letting them use the maps despite the costs.

Note that this only affects the maps that are actually embedded into AQ such as when you run a search for boxes then have them all displayed on a map. The map buttons for an individual box that link to Google's website still work for everyone. It's just a link to a separate website (e.g. Google's!), and that they don't charge for. So you can still look up locations for individual boxes... but only one at a time. It's the maps where it looks like you're still on AQ's website and using a Google Map that won't work anymore.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

-- Ryan

Nah, that's just my cover story. As a member of the Orbit Guard, I sensed trouble was brewing on Melmac years before and sought out a planet to take refuge on... just in case.


Hey, we all have skeletons in our closets ! - mine just happen to be feline. In my defense, it was this cat whose actions led to Melmac's destruction. I consider myself a patriot on both planets!

Every beautiful pattern and color combination imaginable, and so simple to use. Just a guess?

Does anyone annotate their books?
Tabbing, marking, writing, and making notes in your favorite books. I started doing this last year and it is fun to go back and reread favorite quotes and such.
~Aurora

I will. I underline mostly, but occasionally highlight.

Conversely though, I consider it sacrilege to dog-ear the pages.

I reuse them too - I’d say I’m one of the few people these days who go into the physical post office 1-2 times a month and spend $80-100 on postage stamps even in the months I know they’re going to raise the price twice (I have a business account and get updates on the scheduled postal rate increases every quarter). If I get one uncancelled stamp out of all the postage I go through, I’m not going to put it in an album and save it! What’s the point of that? And it’s so rare, I hardly worry about it. Maybe one time since I started doing LTCs?

This is an odd request, I know…but can anyone in Austin help me move a box? I sent it down with an inexperienced boxer that is a friend and was going to the capital and I think they misunderstood my instructions. The picture they sent of the location was pretty exposed and while the building is vacant, if someone decides to remodel/reopen it’ll be gone. They had already left by the time I found out and I won’t be able to get down there anytime soon so I just need someone to pick it up and find a good place for it so I can list it. Can anyone local help???

Congratulations on 11 years of letterboxing! We are so glad we get to share this hobby with you both.

I did this during college. Unfortunately I let someone borrow my copy of Jude the Obscure and I never got it back. Now I don’t let folks borrow my books. I just get them a copy. But I do write in my books.

Amanda from Seattle

Skipper is barking orders. Kowalski will be winning the hearts and the minds of the natives. Rico is getting special tactical equipment for the extreme peril. Private probably won't survive. We won't see anything...

Mumble - penguin correspondent

I write in my books. However I loaned a book where the borrower decided to add HER thoughts into MY book. I’m now in the Get Your Own Copy Club.

Hear hear! Happy AQversary! May your skies be clear and your fingers be inky!

We do it occasionally. It’s not something we really celebrate nor ignore. We have a TERRIBLE local PO, so much so that we usually drive one town over when we need their services. I figure we’ve been overcharged more than we take from re-using.


Oh, I do! How else to know if they are ripe? 😉
Related…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Unmc78XQoP4

I stumbled upon this, and I think Wassa is narrating! Anyone else think he's moonlighting?

Hi! I'd love to start making and collecting LTCs but I'm not really sure where to start, i was wondering if y'all have any advice or thoughts on where a good place to start would be? I also don't know a ton beyond cool stamp trading cards, so info would be great too. thanks!

Great.. you hear "Hot Brown" and immediately think "Wassa"...

Though he is a delightful narrator, so there's that.

Being so close to L-ville, I had to watch the demo. The narrator sounded so much like you from the start, I had to inquire.

This will tell you pretty much everything you need to know and more:
https://www.atlasquest.com/about/wiki/browse.php?catId=39

Then send a request to Linden Leaf thru AQ mail for a sample pack of LTCs so you can see examples of what others make.

“When a clown moves into a palace he doesn’t become a king, the palace instead becomes a circus.”

- Turkish Proverb

I have several trackers that are still open. I welcome newbies. I’m always willing to help people learn a new craft.

congrats on your AQ-cake day!!! 🎂

I saw a little girl holding a hand-made sign today that said: <Name Redacted> is a BAD stinky boy. It’s no Turkish proverb, but I thought it summed things up pretty well!

I only do it on my kindle. I volunteer to sort and sell books for my local library. We fill an entire commercial dumpster every week with books we can’t sell because they are underlined, highlighted, or annotated. :-( People don’t want to buy used books that have that.
No judgement here but it does drastically affect the lifecycle of the book.

I hesitated to say anything.

But I don’t put marks of any kind in a book because I stopped keeping them. When I’m done with a book I donate it to a local library.

I finally got a couple of bumper stickers for my car. They make it pretty clear I didn’t vote for the orange one. No slashed tires yet.