Taking off Travel blog

The treasure hunt is alive and well. Remember how much fun it was to bury items and then hunt for them, either on your own or with groups of friends? Some people have never tired of that thrill and there are a number of ways you can still enjoy finding buried treasure.

Letterboxing

With letterboxing small boxes are hidden various locations. They contain a unique stamp (which is often handmade) and a logbook. Those are the basics but they may include other things as well. The idea is that when you find a letterbox you use the stamp inside it to stamp your own personal logbook whilst using your own signature stamp to mark the logbook contained in the letterbox. In order to find the letterboxes all you need to do is follow the clues which are left on letterboxing community sites.

Hitchhikers

A twist on letterboxing is that sometimes a letterbox contains another letterbox which the finder must remove and take to another location, placing it inside a third letterbox. Read more »

I’m pleased to announce that the Taking Off Travel Blog is now open to guest posts. Here’s what you need to do if you want to guest post on this blog:

First, search the blog to check that we haven’t already covered the topic that you want to write about. If you’re taking a different angle on something we’ve already covered then that’s fine. Get in touch with me to discuss your idea.

If I like the idea, I’ll ask you to write and submit a guest post of at least 400 words, with a link to an appropriate public domain or creative Commons image to illustrate it. At the end of the post include a two sentence bio with a link to your blog.

Send the post to sharon at parkrideflyusa dot com. If I don’t acknowledge it within a couple of days, send me a tweet (@parkrideflyusa) to check that I’ve received it.

If I am happy with the final post, I will schedule it and let you know when it will appear. Please reply to any comments left on the post and feel free to add your social media promotion efforts to mine.

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There are some vehicles that just call your name. Just seeing them makes you want to hop in and take a ride or, even better, own one. Just for fun, I’ve put together my list of vehicles that did that for me. Here’s my list of five vehicles that make traveling cool.

5. Sir Richard Branson’s Necker Nymph submarine

Sir Richard Branson is always travelling in cool vehicles — and I’m not talking about Virgin planes. The Necker Nymph aero submarine is like an underwater plane and can glide on the surface of the water.

4. K.I.T.T.

I’m not the only one to think that KITT was the best thing about the Knight Rider series. A sleek, black, sporty vehicle that talked — and talked back to David Hasselhoff. I’ve always liked the idea of vehicles that could communicate, which is why this makes my list.

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