1218. Travelin' light in Seattle 5/7/22

"Travelin' lights" (the name we gave years ago to little stones with stamps glued on back without any other sort of letterbox container) are literally the last things we happen to think of these days when getting ready for any of our more recent trips, or so it seems! Once we have booked a trip, planned our sight-seeing itineraries and such, and packed as lightly as we possibly can, only then do we seem to remember anymore to look to see if there are any letterboxes within our time and distance framework. If not, often within the very last hour or so before getting ready to fly off to the airport, we might try to hen-scratch a couple of these tiny "mementos" to leave somewhere near our proposed routes (and sometimes we even forget to do that!;-) So, don't expect much at all in the way of carving or placement for these lightweight stamps, which are basically just meant for something to do while quickly passing through...

Anyway, for this particular "travelin' light", we had a rather long layover at Seatac airport, so we decided to walk a bit north to a memorial park we had visited years ago on a previous trip. With the same name as our first US President, this cemetery also contains a memorial that reminded us of what is generally considered to be one of the first letterboxes planted in North America, listed on LbNA way back in 1998, which we used to like to say helped letterboxing in North America get started and take off "on a wing and a prayer"! We left a small gray stone along with several others just behind the right side of this memorial, by Amen. (Wishing now that instead of "Seatac" on back, the stamp said "Amen", too!;-)

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