Yellow Brick Road 1: Dorothy LbNA #51652
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Add Location| Owner: | Adoptable |
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| Plant date: | Dec 3, 2009 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Holualoa |
| County: | Hawaii |
| State: | Hawaii |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Planted by: | Old2AK  |
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| Found by: | Queenie Meanie |
| Last found: | Mar 26, 2013 |
| Status: | FFFFFFFF |
| Last edited: | Dec 3, 2009 |
We're a couple of old geezers who enjoy letterboxing, but who tend to limit our hiding and seeking activity to drive-bys and places that involve easy walks. If we're a long way from home, in a place we might not visit again, we think it's more fun to seek and find easy boxes in several different locations, rather than pursue one hard one. We think our "low impact" letterbox style works work well for families with young children, too.
The Yellow Brick Road series relies on a collection of old, commercially-made rubber stamps that feature characters from The Wizard of Oz. If you get a fairly early start (9 a.m.? 10 a.m.?) you should be able to find all five letterboxes in the series in a pleasant one-day outing that will take you to interesting places you might otherwise not go.
1. DOROTHY
Follow Highway 11 south from Kailua-Kona and take one of the several roads that lead to Holualoa. You might want to have breakfast at the Aloha Theater Café in Kainaliu, then start back toward Kona, taking the Highway 180 turnoff just north of Honalo. Signs will tell you this is the Kona Heritage Corridor.
Tucked amid the rampant foliage and upland farms on the slopes of dormant Hualalai Volcano, Holualoa is a coffee town with an arty twist. At the south edge of town, the road appears to fork; be sure to take the uphill fork. You'll know you're on the right track when you see the numerous small art galleries and the historic Kona Hotel, which has long been painted an eye-catching Pepto-Bismol pink.
Spend some time exploring the hotel and the Holualoa galleries, then continue north on Highway 180. After you pass the Imin Center turnoff, start watching on the right for stone gateposts that support an iron gate that says COFFEE….GROUNDS. Above the low stone walls that extend from both sides of the gate are rows and rows of healthy coffee trees. We saw turkeys busily foraging among the trees!
Just past the stone wall, on the right-hand side of the road, is a guardrail. It's apparently there to keep motorists from tangling with a large, stone-lined drainage ditch. Pull into the turnout at the north end of the guardrail, across from 75-5750. Pole #86 is nearby. Look (feel) in the guardrail groove, behind the first rubber-bumper post. The letterbox is a camouflaged pill bottle that's stuck to the top of the groove with magnets. When you return the "box" to its hiding place, put the end with the cap in first, so the white lid can't be seen.
The Yellow Brick Road series relies on a collection of old, commercially-made rubber stamps that feature characters from The Wizard of Oz. If you get a fairly early start (9 a.m.? 10 a.m.?) you should be able to find all five letterboxes in the series in a pleasant one-day outing that will take you to interesting places you might otherwise not go.
1. DOROTHY
Follow Highway 11 south from Kailua-Kona and take one of the several roads that lead to Holualoa. You might want to have breakfast at the Aloha Theater Café in Kainaliu, then start back toward Kona, taking the Highway 180 turnoff just north of Honalo. Signs will tell you this is the Kona Heritage Corridor.
Tucked amid the rampant foliage and upland farms on the slopes of dormant Hualalai Volcano, Holualoa is a coffee town with an arty twist. At the south edge of town, the road appears to fork; be sure to take the uphill fork. You'll know you're on the right track when you see the numerous small art galleries and the historic Kona Hotel, which has long been painted an eye-catching Pepto-Bismol pink.
Spend some time exploring the hotel and the Holualoa galleries, then continue north on Highway 180. After you pass the Imin Center turnoff, start watching on the right for stone gateposts that support an iron gate that says COFFEE….GROUNDS. Above the low stone walls that extend from both sides of the gate are rows and rows of healthy coffee trees. We saw turkeys busily foraging among the trees!
Just past the stone wall, on the right-hand side of the road, is a guardrail. It's apparently there to keep motorists from tangling with a large, stone-lined drainage ditch. Pull into the turnout at the north end of the guardrail, across from 75-5750. Pole #86 is nearby. Look (feel) in the guardrail groove, behind the first rubber-bumper post. The letterbox is a camouflaged pill bottle that's stuck to the top of the groove with magnets. When you return the "box" to its hiding place, put the end with the cap in first, so the white lid can't be seen.