1146. Jamaican "Traveling Light" Bonus - 1-2 miles
mystery, RI)

While traveling abroad in the past decade or so and having gotten tired of having so many boxes that we planted go missing, we somehow came up with the idea and the name of "travelin' lights" for stamps that we gorilla-glued onto the backs of small stones. Simply "stones alone" with no containers whatsoever, not even a baggie covering them or a fake rock enclosure to weigh us down, these natural little stones were easily transported in our carry-on packs and could be planted fairly inconspicuously almost anywhere to blend in with various corners of the world, yet could still be considered letterboxes, since they did provide a stamp glued on back!

Well, when a cool series about various containers came out in RI in the fall of 2020, we said to each other that we should add an example of our "non-container" - our own personally-named "travelin' light" - as a joke which no one yet seems to have gotten, since we have yet to see anyone else plant an example of a true "travelin' light" that meets our unencumbered definition! We have seen examples of people using our basic idea of gluing stamps on the back of stones, but then putting them in plastic boxes or other containers, which sort of defeats the purpose of a "travelin' light" to blend in naturally with the environment. That was, in fact, what we originally did out in Nevada 20 or so years ago, when we put stone-backed stamps in containers before we realized that the stones could simply stand out there much more naturally on their own! Now, it's true that the stamps may not weather as well this way, but with our stamps, who cares, and at least we don't have to worry about carrying around or leaving behind plastic!

Anyway, to find an example of our "non-container"/"travelin' light", just go to the last box of the container series and read what we wrote in the logbook (something like 6 steps away at 265*?) Find the small stone with Jamaica on back sitting atop a low broken-off stump or something like that. "Why Jamaica?", you ask. It was the only "travelin' light" that we happened to have with us at the time, leftover from another cruise that we took to Jamaica in January of 2020, when we couldn't land at the port of Kingston because the tradewinds were way too high and we might have crashed. Little did we know that the coronavirus pandemic would be coming along so soon afterwards and, since we will probably never go to Jamaica again, here in RI is where we decided we might as well leave this little memento of yet another of our "travelin' light" trips, whether or not our concept of "travelin' light" letterboxes ever catches on or not!;-)

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