SGFDHM Series: Box 4 - Kiki's Delivery Service LbNA #47137
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | May 4, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | La Verkin |
| County: | Washington |
| State: | Utah |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Moo Poo  |
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| Found by: | Trishee |
| Last found: | Mar 17, 2013 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFFFFFFFFaa |
| Last edited: | May 4, 2009 |
Studio Ghibli Films Directed by Hayao Miyazaki Series:
BOX 4 – Kiki’s Delivery Service Letterbox
Created and Placed by: Moo Poo
1 Hand-Carved Stamp
Hayao Miyazaki is a well-known filmmaker of many popular animated feature films. He is also a co-founder of Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company. He remained largely unknown to the West, outside of animation communities, until Miramax released his 1997 Princess Mononoke. By that time, his films had already enjoyed both commercial and critical success in Japan and Central Asia. Miyazaki's films often incorporate recurrent themes, such as humanity's relationship to nature and technology, and the difficulty of maintaining a peacekeeper ethic. Reflecting Miyazaki's feminism, the protagonists of his films are often strong, independent girls or young women; the villains, when present, are often morally ambiguous characters with redeeming qualities.
1989
魔女の宅急便
“Majo no Takkyubin”
Kiki’s Delivery Service tells the story of Kiki, a thirteen year old witch. When a witch turns 13, it is traditional for her to move away from home to spend a year in another city or town where there is no witch already living, so that she can learn to be independent and practice her trade. This is Kiki's story of the beginning of her year away from home. She and her black cat Jiji run into a little trouble at first, but they soon make friends in their new city by the sea.
It was the first Studio Ghibli movie released under the Disney/Studio Ghibli partnership; Disney recorded an English dub in 1997. It was released on home video in the U.S. on September 1, 1998.
The English-dub version stars many famous voice actors including Debbie Reynolds, Matthew Lawrence, and Kirsten Dunst.
Directions:
From La Verkin: Drive north on UT-9, towards Springdale. You will go about 3.5 miles and there will be a sign stating “La Verkin Overlook” (Google labels it as Laverkin Overlook Rd, Hurricane, UT). Turn right onto this gravel road. Stay on the main gravel road (there are MANY small gravel roads that split off from the main road, but continue straight on this road) until it ends (about 1.5 miles) at a circular parking area. Drive around the small loop and park on the left-side of the loop (you will face the road you just came on).
From Springdale: Head west on UT-9 towards Hurricane. Go about 15 miles and there will be a sign stating “La Verkin Overlook” (Google labels it as Laverkin Overlook Rd, Hurricane, UT). Turn left onto this gravel road. Stay on the main gravel road (there are MANY small gravel roads that split off from the main road, but continue straight on this road) until it ends (about 1.5 miles) at a circular parking area. Drive around the small loop and park on the left-side of the loop (you will face the road you just came on).
This is a great viewpoint, giving you a “witch’s-eye-view” of a small town…maybe like how Kiki saw the small town before she swooped down into it.
Clues:
1) On this side of the loop, heading downhill away from the viewpoint is a gravel trail bordered by small rocks. Head south on this trail.
2) You will pass a broken brown post on the right.
3) Keep going down this trail until you come to another brown sign (this one is intact and has a picture of a little man hiking). Stop at this post.
4) Turn around and face up the trail (the way you just came down).
5) Count 20 steps up the hill and stop. To your left should be a large black boulder.
6) Look to your right and off in the distance is a cluster of large boulders that have a family of yuccas on top of them.
7) Step off the trail and head towards this cluster of boulders. It took me about 40 steps to get to the boulders, but it required dodging blackbrush and creosote on the way.
8) Stand below the cluster of boulders. Place the canyon behind you and the yucca plants (which are on directly on top of the boulder) at eye-level.
9) Below the far right yucca plant, about 4 ft down, is a boulder with an opening at the bottom of it. The box is in the opening, behind some rocks. Please watch for broken glass and little cacti!
10) Since I am unable to check on the box, please contact me with an update on how my letterbox is doing! Blazehime7@aol.com
11) Please log your find in to either AtlasQuest.com or Letterboxing.org
** I had intended for the Jiji stamp to be in a Bonus Box, but could not find the box in my car (I am currently moving from Utah, back to Florida and my many belongings are strewn throughout the car). Please excuse the mess I had made in my logbook (I had to cross out the information about the logbook). Either way, enjoy the Bonus Stamp!**
BOX 4 – Kiki’s Delivery Service Letterbox
Created and Placed by: Moo Poo
1 Hand-Carved Stamp
Hayao Miyazaki is a well-known filmmaker of many popular animated feature films. He is also a co-founder of Studio Ghibli, an animation studio and production company. He remained largely unknown to the West, outside of animation communities, until Miramax released his 1997 Princess Mononoke. By that time, his films had already enjoyed both commercial and critical success in Japan and Central Asia. Miyazaki's films often incorporate recurrent themes, such as humanity's relationship to nature and technology, and the difficulty of maintaining a peacekeeper ethic. Reflecting Miyazaki's feminism, the protagonists of his films are often strong, independent girls or young women; the villains, when present, are often morally ambiguous characters with redeeming qualities.
1989
魔女の宅急便
“Majo no Takkyubin”
Kiki’s Delivery Service tells the story of Kiki, a thirteen year old witch. When a witch turns 13, it is traditional for her to move away from home to spend a year in another city or town where there is no witch already living, so that she can learn to be independent and practice her trade. This is Kiki's story of the beginning of her year away from home. She and her black cat Jiji run into a little trouble at first, but they soon make friends in their new city by the sea.
It was the first Studio Ghibli movie released under the Disney/Studio Ghibli partnership; Disney recorded an English dub in 1997. It was released on home video in the U.S. on September 1, 1998.
The English-dub version stars many famous voice actors including Debbie Reynolds, Matthew Lawrence, and Kirsten Dunst.
Directions:
From La Verkin: Drive north on UT-9, towards Springdale. You will go about 3.5 miles and there will be a sign stating “La Verkin Overlook” (Google labels it as Laverkin Overlook Rd, Hurricane, UT). Turn right onto this gravel road. Stay on the main gravel road (there are MANY small gravel roads that split off from the main road, but continue straight on this road) until it ends (about 1.5 miles) at a circular parking area. Drive around the small loop and park on the left-side of the loop (you will face the road you just came on).
From Springdale: Head west on UT-9 towards Hurricane. Go about 15 miles and there will be a sign stating “La Verkin Overlook” (Google labels it as Laverkin Overlook Rd, Hurricane, UT). Turn left onto this gravel road. Stay on the main gravel road (there are MANY small gravel roads that split off from the main road, but continue straight on this road) until it ends (about 1.5 miles) at a circular parking area. Drive around the small loop and park on the left-side of the loop (you will face the road you just came on).
This is a great viewpoint, giving you a “witch’s-eye-view” of a small town…maybe like how Kiki saw the small town before she swooped down into it.
Clues:
1) On this side of the loop, heading downhill away from the viewpoint is a gravel trail bordered by small rocks. Head south on this trail.
2) You will pass a broken brown post on the right.
3) Keep going down this trail until you come to another brown sign (this one is intact and has a picture of a little man hiking). Stop at this post.
4) Turn around and face up the trail (the way you just came down).
5) Count 20 steps up the hill and stop. To your left should be a large black boulder.
6) Look to your right and off in the distance is a cluster of large boulders that have a family of yuccas on top of them.
7) Step off the trail and head towards this cluster of boulders. It took me about 40 steps to get to the boulders, but it required dodging blackbrush and creosote on the way.
8) Stand below the cluster of boulders. Place the canyon behind you and the yucca plants (which are on directly on top of the boulder) at eye-level.
9) Below the far right yucca plant, about 4 ft down, is a boulder with an opening at the bottom of it. The box is in the opening, behind some rocks. Please watch for broken glass and little cacti!
10) Since I am unable to check on the box, please contact me with an update on how my letterbox is doing! Blazehime7@aol.com
11) Please log your find in to either AtlasQuest.com or Letterboxing.org
** I had intended for the Jiji stamp to be in a Bonus Box, but could not find the box in my car (I am currently moving from Utah, back to Florida and my many belongings are strewn throughout the car). Please excuse the mess I had made in my logbook (I had to cross out the information about the logbook). Either way, enjoy the Bonus Stamp!**