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3rd Tuesdays in Eldersburg, February '14 Edition Event Cache

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The 14th in a series of monthly meet and greets in Eldersburg at Panera Bread from 6:00PM to 8:00.  Well 13th, we missed May '13.  Be sure to read the entire descritpion below, important details change form month-to-month!  We wouldn't want you to miss anything!


The Carroll County Caching Fellowship  (C3F) (what the heck is that?!?) cordially invites you to enjoy the pleasures of the social side of the geocaching hobby!  Come on out and meet fellow cachers, share stories of your trials and tribulations (or Trials and Tubulations!) in searching for that elusive hide, and swap travel bugs and geocoins.  Here's a chance for you to experience the part of the hobby that doesn't feature poison ivy, ticks, mosquitos, leeches, cockleburs, beggar's lice, thorns or greenbriar!  Instead, come observe the oddities of human behavior as your fellow cachers wander 'round the parking lot scribbling down codes from trackable vehicles, shooting photos of each other's nametags, and generally examining each other closely to insure they have not missed a trackable t-shirt or necklace!  Hear tales of DNF woe (bring extra kleenex, would ya'?), and if you're lucky, maybe get to see Deepdish23's I FOUND IT!!! Happy Dance!

Regular attendees at this monthly event include some truly stellar cachers from our local area, who are filled with caching wisdom, friendly, and eager to share their experience and help answer questions if you need help (Oh....that's what the C3F is!).  We have master puzzle cachers, master woodsmen, geotrail kings and queens, prolific cachers, and once-in-a-whilers.  We have Rogi!  We have bugs!  We have way too much hype and excitement!  We might even get Zekester to wear a tophat for this event!

WARNING***WARNING****WARNING

THE GOVERNMENT OF ELDERSBURG INTERUPTS THIS ANNNOUNCEMENT TO INFORM YOU THAT THIS EVENT HAS BEEN KNOWN TO CAUSE THE SPREAD OF THE ZTB VIRUS.  PARTICIPANTS MAY BE EXPOSED TO MORBID HUMOR, EDGAR ALLEN POE REFERENCES, AND SUBTLE, SUBLIMINAL AFFECTS WHICH MAY CAUSE THE DESIRE TO EAT SPAM.  ATTENDENCE OF THIS EVENT MAY RESULT IN, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO SHAMBLING, DROOLING, MOANING, A CRAVING FOR SWEETBREADS, REALITY ALTERING PERCEPTIONS, AND A SERIUOSULY UNPLEASANT AND PERSISTENT BODY ODOR.

FURTHER DETAILS CAN BE FOUND HERE: WWW.FINDITLOGITSPRREADIT.INFO  

WARNING***WARNING****WARNING       

Bah.  Pesky government weenies.  Come on out, it'll be just fine!

A new feature for 2014 will be geocaching crash courses. At the beginning of each session, we'll conduct a ten minute crash course in some aspect of geocaching, just to get the juices flowing and the conversations started.  This month's Crash Course topic will be: Tools for the Trail.  Here, we'll say it again (hear it with a lot of reverb in your head......) TOOLS tools tools tolls, of the Trail trail trail trail.

Be sure to ask Zekester what "Be the Bug" means!  No, it is not a virus!!!

Also, there are a number of caches nearby in Eldersburg, be sure to check them out!
 
For whom: This event is for YOU!!! Regardless of whether you have found a handful of caches or thousands of them, or you just have a burgeoning interest, all are welcome!  Last time, we surrounded an innocent dinmer in the restaurant and sucked him in too!  Its OK if you're really really shy.  Just come and sit across the dining room and watch.  Maybe if you film it and put it on YouTube it willo go viral!  
 
When? 6:00PM to 8:00PM, on Tuesday, 18 FEB 2014.  As a belated happy valentines day present, there will be free hugs for everyone!
 
Where? Panera Bread, 6300 Georgetown Boulevard, Eldersburg, Maryland (or just use the convenient coordinates posted above!).
 
Why? Have dinner.  Meet a cacher.  Tell a tale.  Trade a coin or travel bug.  Meet Rogi! Find out what "Be the Bug" means!
 

 * If you pick up a Travel Bug or trackable coin at the event,
make sure you log it out so it doesn't show up in the event list.

In case you did not already get enough exclamation points in this description, here are a few more, because these events are just too much fun:

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And here is an ampersand, because they don't get used that often and they get lonely: &.

Don't stomp on the semi-colon;

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

1. Abapunynagyl nccebnpu gur jvaqbj bs gur Cnaren; ab, abg gung jvaqbj, fvyyl, gur bar gb gur evtug bs gur qbbe. Npg yvxr lbh ner svkvat lbhe unve be nqwhfgvat lbhe tynffrf be fbzrguvat, juvyr frpergyl crrevat guebhtu gur jvaqbj. Ab bar jvyy or svyzvat lbh, cebzvfr. Vs lbh frr n sng oybaqr thl jvgu n cbal gnvy naq n yrnpu penjyvat hc uvf yrt, naq n qebc qrnq tbetrbhf oeharggr, lbh ner ng gur evtug cynpr, urnq ba va. 2. Qvqa'g jbex? Znlor gurl jrer va gur onpx trggvat fbzrguvat gb rng. Qvq lbh frr n tnetblyr? 3. Ab?!? Uzzz. Ryqrefohet. Gur rirag vf va Ryqrefohet. Jr xabj, vg vf ernyyl abg na npghny bssvpvny cynpr, vg unf ab gbja tbireazrag, vg qbrf abg ernyyl rkvfg, vg vf whfg n "prafhf qrfvtangrq cynpr anzr," vg vf arne Flxrfivyr. Gel gung. 4. Lbh ner va Znelynaq, evtug? 5. Bx, tb gur jurer Znelynaq ebhgr 32 zrrgf Znelynaq ebhgr 26. Abj lbh whfg arrq gb tb rvgure yrsg, evtug sbejneq be onpxjneqf, qrcraqvat ba juvpu qverpgvba lbh pnzr sebz. Lbh pbhyq jnyx sebz gurer vs gurer jrer fvqrjnyxf. 6. Ernyyl!?! Gel pnyyvat gur Cnaren ng (410) 552-4137 naq univat Mrxrfgre be Fvzba cntrq, jr'yy gnyx lbh va. 7. Ubj qbrf 437 srrg sebz Trbybns (uggc://pbbeq.vasb/TP43I2G) jbex sbe lbh? 8. Lrfgreqnl jr fahpx hc ba gur ebbs naq gebzcrq bhg n ovt frzv-pbyba va gur fabj. Ybbx ng gur cubgbf va Tbbtyr Rnegu, ln' pna'g zvff vg zna!

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)