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Parent Letterboxing Series Summer '07 Your search begins at the Sacramento Park named
after the 25th President of the United States... As you walk around its shore, keep an eye out for two white sharks with lion heads. When you find them, walk between them into the castle they guard. Search high and low until you find the twin slides. Across from the slides, at the far end of the play area, is a green table great for eating lunch. Have a seat at the table and look back at the slides. The slide nearest to the sign that tells you the park's hours is the one hiding the Sacramento Parent Letterbox. A sandwich container is buried in the wood chips, nestled up against the support under the slide. (It will be against the side you can see from the green bench) Post a lookout, dig it up (quick!), head back to the picnic table (slowly!). Open the sandwich container. Remember not to draw attention to yourself. Pretend that everyone brings a notepad and stamp to eat for lunch! Be sure to bury it right where you dug it up so that others can find it too. Take
I-80 to Roseville... If you're coming up from Sacramento look to your right as you exit the freeway and you will see a 60ft.-high red metal sculpture. Make your way to the sculpture. It's located at a place called Sculpture Park, which is also a trailhead for the Miner's Ravine Bike Trail. Walk directly under the sculpture. On the ground is a plaque. After reading it, look to your left, and you will see another sculpture. The wall that faces you will have an owl, a snake and a flower on it. Walk past that sculpture and off the concrete pad it's sitting on. Turn around and look at its base. The letterbox is wedged under the concrete pad behind a dissimilar hunk of concrete. Pull
off the freeway at the first Auburn exit... Locate the oldest firehouse west of the Mississippi. After admiring the restored fire engine within, have a rest on the front steps. The letterbox will be right beneath you! Your
search begins in a city whose name contains the word “Rock”... Find the place where they grow plants inside of a building that lets light in. It is not easy to find, but it is near the place where people swim. As you walk around, keep an eye out for a secret garden. The secret garden is delightfully shady. It has a small bridge that crosses over an even smaller creek (which may be dry at this time of year). Search high and low until you find the arbor. The roof of the arbor is covered with a flowering vine. Have a seat in the arbor and enjoy the view. A rock in one corner of the arbor is hiding the Sacramento Parent Letterbox. A sandwich container is hidden under the rock. (It’s nestled up against the backside of the rock.) Your
search begins in a foothills town named for its “view
of” the Meadow... First, find the place where children play on swings and slides. It is not easy to find, but it is near the far end of the park. As you walk around, keep an eye out for a spiral slide. Go down the spiral slide and stop at the bottom. In front of you will be a path. Follow the path in the direction you were facing when you were sitting at the bottom of the spiral slide. Follow the path as it winds around the pond where the ducks swim. Keep going until you see a sign that says "Rod Carveta Pathway." Go past the sign until you get to the corner of the place where people play baseball. Search high and low until you find a large culvert. You will know it when you see it. As you approach it, you will notice a broken bluish-white pipe on the ground. Look through the broken bluish-white pipe and you will see the Sacramento Parent Letterbox. A sandwich container is hidden at the end of the pipe, nestled in the blackberries. Be sure to replace it right where you found it, so that others can enjoy this letterbox too. Take
I-80 West into Aggie territory... Walk back up E St. toward 2nd Street. Go right on 2nd and look for the big bronze leaf that will appear on your right. Pause at this corner. (You can borrow a Downtown Davis Treewalk map if you’d like to do some natural treasure hunting after you’ve found the letterbox. Just be sure to return it—or make a donation—so others can enjoy the program too.) Walk along the leaf’s non-silver side and down A, B, C, this! Street. About five trees down, you’ll find the home of KidsCREATE. Look to your right for the red sign with the gallery’s name spelled down. Follow the walk alongside the building to the shady, grassy area in back. You’ll meet a blue man with six fire-tongued companions. This story ends as a snake’s tail. (Need a hint? It’s under the edge that faces you if you have a seat on the black-cushioned bench inside the Community Gallery and look out on the sculpture through the big glass doors.) Stroll
all the way through Downtown Sacramento’s K Street pedestrian
mall... Walk across the street and between the rushing waters and fragmented faces toward the front entrance of the Center, but don’t go in. Hang a right, past “La Familia.” Then follow the path past the God of the Sea. (His right toes point the way.) You’ll meet the Buddha and then a fellow in a yellow suit “Walking the Dogs.” Curve around the ivy’s edge, and have a seat on the cement square closest to that finely dressed fellow. Are you on the edge of your seat yet? Good! Scoot along that edge until you’re facing the closest lamp post. You’ll find what you seek right beneath you and right behind your feet. Take care before you reach underneath. |
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