How do people get started in letterboxing?

It was amazing to learn of all of the various ways that letterboxers in the study heard about letterboxing in the first place. By far, being told by a friend, family member, or co-worker was number one. Following that, some read about letterboxing in a magazine or newspaper article or in an Internet search. Other ways included:

• previous or current involvement in geocaching
• a radio or television news program
  
• discovering a letterbox by accident
• hearing about it in a scouting program
• connections through an art program
  
• homeschoolers' resources
  
• community education programs

I got a kick out of the responses about accidental finds - “I found a box in one of my fav. hiking spots, went to the web page listed on the box and I was off and running!” or ”I was searching the Internet in 2002 for art projects for my students. Through a link from a rubber stamping site I landed on the ‘How to Carve’ page of www.letterboxing.org website – Screeched in amazement and have been hooked ever since!”