ON MY ARMOR

Scott and I don't do an awful lot of "city" letterboxes. Not because we don't like them, but when we are in the city it is usually on errands that we do not have time to stop and letterbox etc. We decided to pick up a city letterbox because we actually had wonderful weather and time on this early Saturday night. It was very easy to find, it was behind a small school. No school in session, but the big problem arrived AFTER we found the box and was logging in. I imagine that the summer time will hide the area where the box is hidden better than right now, but I know that all the neighboring backyards were able to view us fully while we reached in where the box was hidden. What also didn't help was in one of those neighbor's backyard was a HUGE dog and he announced plainly that we were bothering him! We still were fine and went to the nearest spot to sit and log in:

All of a sudden appears a full grown man (out of nowhere!!!! I suspect one of those neighboring backyards) who "pretends" to start throwing hoops. He signals to another person (in the direction of the same backyard) and a young man shows up on a motorized scooter. We now have a full fledged audience! We calmly finished up logging in, packed up all our things, including the letterbox and walked to the car to drive away. We both agreed that we would come back when it was dark and rehide the lb because it was impossible to do so with our inquiring minds watching us. It was a little inconvenient, but it was necessary. I think that is also another reason why we don't do too many city locations. Too many people and too many things can go terribly wrong. Now swinging back to replant took about 10 minutes out of our time, but what if you were just passing through a city on a trip and something like that happened? I am not sure what we would have done! I guess if I could talk to the people who plant letterboxes in cities I would strongly suggest that they think about ALL the seasons before putting it in a spot that, in the down seasons, the place would be directly out in the open! Nice stamp and it still was nice to find!

P.S. The pictures are small because we forgot the camera so I took the shots with my cell phone.