To find this sacred beetle (carved by Talking Turtle of NY for Scarab of VA and now located somewhere in between) fly away from the ancient land of the Nile delta to an eponymous place in the new world. From a "pyramid of green" where you may leave your chariot, cross over to a sacred land of the dead beyond to the east. Don't be fooled if a scribe should try to tell you that some of the unusual "hieroglyphs" you can see on the nearby "Rosetta Stones" are in "Deutsch"! Some are, indeed, rather revolutionary! If you should spot a row of these to the north, with a 4-father tree to the east, tipping a stone slab on its north side just might reveal an ancient treasure beneath!

Checked 10 Oct 2010 - still there!

No, this is not the mystery box that we've been meaning to plant in PA for years, but just never seem to get back around to the proper place for planting it! This is just a temporary placement to keep us in compliance with one of Lightnin' Bug's boxes from which we were almost chased off by a scruffy, rabid-looking raccoon! (We had already planted this box near our camping spot of the night before and after the Zoo gathering, so that raccoon had no business trying to run us off either! ;-)

Anyway, this microbox, contains just a crappy little leftover stamp reminiscent of a gathering we didn't even go to (since we generally avoid the "big shindigs"), and we don't recommend going after it unless you happen to be traveling through the area. We had meant to put it a bit closer to the Trexler Game Preserve, but every animal there was kept as neat as a pen, with no discernible smell whatsoever! So, off we went to a spot we remembered along the AT that always seems to have a whiff of farmland wafting up to it, on a mountain road about halfway between a barn full of cats and a lake full of leeches. Once there in the parking lot, simply head west to the gate, find three co-linear boulders to the left of the gate and three co-linear trees to the left of the boulders. Then just look under a couple of flat stones in the right hand corner at the base of the third tree where it meets the wall, if you have any interest at all in finding this silly little "compliance microbox"!

This is the mystery we've been meaning to plant for about 6 years now, and just never seemed to get back around to that spot to plant it! In fact, so much time had elapsed since we visited the original spot in our pre-letterboxing days that we completely forgot what it was that the president was supposedly eating, which accounts for why the stamp shows something different (pierogi) from what is actually on his plate (placki!;-)

Anyway, to find this little box, first locate the slightly larger than life sculpture of an American President sitting at a table next to a lady in ethnic garb eating potato pancakes! Yes, it's such an unusual "down-homey" sculpture that it's sure to make you smile, and perhaps you can even slide in next to "the pres", as I did, for a "photo op", if you'd like!

Then walk around to his backside and take about 155 steps at about 355 degrees, slightly less than twice that many steps at about 55 degrees, and finally, from the left side of the bench, just a few steps at 340 to the backside of a spruce tree. Just look under the stone under the tree for a little treat, near where we stopped to eat a bagful of chocolate-covered, plum-filled pierniki that we had just bought not too very far away!;-)

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