Today I put four of my letterboxes up for adoption.

Since I am moving to NY in a few months, the boxes that we have planted in Indiana and Michigan will need new caretakers. This weekend I visited our three at Saugatuck Dunes State Park in Michigan and "The Potato Creek Letterbox". I gave them new resealable plastic bags for protection, new journals, and new pens and made sure that their hiding places were secure. After bidding them a fond farewell, I went home to put them up for adoption with letterboxers who live in the local area. I will be sending them all individual e-mail. Adoption in letterboxing terms involves someone other than the original letterbox planter taking over the care and maintenance of a letterbox " either because the box has been abandoned and the owner cannot be located, or because arrangements have been made with [another letterboxer] to look after the letterbox” (Letterboxing.info, 2004).