TRAX AND STAX (Hobo Destination Box) LbNA #62854
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Aug 14, 2012 |
| Location: | ???????? |
| City: | ????????? |
| County: | New Haven |
| State: | Connecticut |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Skip & TJ  |
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| Found by: | mattyfungos |
| Last found: | Mar 31, 2016 |
| Status: | FFFFF |
| Last edited: | Apr 13, 2016 |
TRAX AND STAX
This series of letterboxes is all about trains and cairns (stacks of rocks that hikers build to mark their trails, and sometimes confused with SPORs, “suspicious piles of rocks.”). You might consider doing this one during the height of “tick season” as very little of the trail brings you into contact with woods or brush. COMMON SENSE AND CAUTION are advised: When you walk along a road, you watch for cars; when you walk along train tracks, you watch for trains. Right?
The boxes and clues will lead you on a hobo journey, marked with authentic hobo signs and ending with an appropriate and well-earned hot meal. Finding the boxes in the recommended sequence should make the trip an enjoyable one. (Out of sequence will give you a challenge.)
DESTINATION BOX CLUES (04.12.16, The name of the eatery has been changed. But not the menu. The original logo was just too cool to retire.)
Chaplin’s Tramp Headgear
one way to roll a “seven”
milltown stax (or what the
pufferbellies puff)
whatcha call dice when ya roll ‘em
When you pull into the first parking lot, the trax and railroad tressle are right in front of you. And so are all of the “No Trespassing” signs.
Please respect them!
Walk along the road, alongside of the building, to an additional parking lot.
At the upper left corner of the lot, you will find a narrow path that leads to the trax. Take the path, and down the tumble of cement slabs to the side of the rails. Walk the rails to your left, just past a medium pile of railroad bed chips. Now face the bank, with your back to the rails. You will see two cement “obelisks” rising from more concrete rubble. At the base of the one on the left, you will see the thirteenth stack of rocks. THE HOBO DESTINATION LETTERBOX is hidden in the stack. Please replace it completely. And reward yourself for completing TRAX AND STAX, with SNAX!
This series of letterboxes is all about trains and cairns (stacks of rocks that hikers build to mark their trails, and sometimes confused with SPORs, “suspicious piles of rocks.”). You might consider doing this one during the height of “tick season” as very little of the trail brings you into contact with woods or brush. COMMON SENSE AND CAUTION are advised: When you walk along a road, you watch for cars; when you walk along train tracks, you watch for trains. Right?
The boxes and clues will lead you on a hobo journey, marked with authentic hobo signs and ending with an appropriate and well-earned hot meal. Finding the boxes in the recommended sequence should make the trip an enjoyable one. (Out of sequence will give you a challenge.)
DESTINATION BOX CLUES (04.12.16, The name of the eatery has been changed. But not the menu. The original logo was just too cool to retire.)
Chaplin’s Tramp Headgear
one way to roll a “seven”
milltown stax (or what the
pufferbellies puff)
whatcha call dice when ya roll ‘em
When you pull into the first parking lot, the trax and railroad tressle are right in front of you. And so are all of the “No Trespassing” signs.
Please respect them!
Walk along the road, alongside of the building, to an additional parking lot.
At the upper left corner of the lot, you will find a narrow path that leads to the trax. Take the path, and down the tumble of cement slabs to the side of the rails. Walk the rails to your left, just past a medium pile of railroad bed chips. Now face the bank, with your back to the rails. You will see two cement “obelisks” rising from more concrete rubble. At the base of the one on the left, you will see the thirteenth stack of rocks. THE HOBO DESTINATION LETTERBOX is hidden in the stack. Please replace it completely. And reward yourself for completing TRAX AND STAX, with SNAX!