Busted!!!

Yesterday I was checking on most of the Crayola Posse's PSU campus letterboxes. Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts is rolling through town and I had reports that some of the log books were full. This was my last chance to slip some new log books in before things got so muggle crazy that I couldn't even touch a box.

One of our most difficult boxes to grab mid-day is Huntin' for Old Main. I know right where it should be but if it hasn't been replaced just so I end up scrabbling around under a bush for a couple of seconds. This is tricky because Old Main gets a lot of foot traffic.

When I have to grab this box in the day, I find I am assessing which of the muggles has the potential of threatening the longevity of the box. Grounds crew and physical plant employees get more attention from me than the random passers by but a single person passing by will feel like more of a threat than an organized tour group that has to stick together. Yesterday I had all of the above mentioned muggle-types as I was swapping out the old log book and popping in the new one. I pretty much gauged every move I made off of when the guy cleaning the steps of Old Main was not looking. I felt pretty good about having replaced it with a minimal number of people seeing me doing anything odd.

Today I got a friendly email from a local letterboxer. She and her family had enjoyed many of our local boxes over the holiday weekend. They missed Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu and Martin Luther King Jr. at PSU (one had gone missing one was removed during construction. We marked them as unavailable in a couple of places and I felt badly that information was missed and they had a wasted trip. They did have success at many of our other boxes so it was great to know they had some success.

What she also mentioned was that I had NOT gone undetected in front of Old Main! Her daughter saw me swapping out the log books but didn't have time to stop and chat. I am so glad that it was another letterboxer who saw me - whew! Small world and what a good laugh thinking I was all discrete.