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3RD Tuesdays In Eldersburg, April '14 Edition Event Cache

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Hidden : Tuesday, April 15, 2014
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The 16th in a series of monthly meet and greets in Eldersburg at Panera Bread from 6:00PM to 8:00.  Well 15th, we missed May '13.  Be sure to read the entire description below, important details change from month-to-month!  We wouldn't want you to miss anything!


Been feeling overtaxed?  Stymied trying to solve that 1040 puzzle?  Maybe it just seems like its been all about the numbers lately.  Well, we're here to help with all of that!  Tonight, you are exempt from such worries!  Come on out and relax!

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'?).  Hear tales of FTF triumph (bring extra champagne will ya'?).

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!  

But beyond all that, with all sincerity, we have a tremendous group of regular attendees who are always looking for ways to give back to the geocaching community, and are truly a pleasure to be around.  

Makes you all weepy, don't it?  Ok let's get back to being silly!

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.  That's a bunch of malarkey!  There IS NO GOVERNMENT in Eldersburg.  It is just a censud designated place (CDP), whatever that means.  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: Geocache logs, maintenance and repair and resources thereof and such.  Yup.  We're gonna tell ya where ya can get a geoloaf! Alternativley, it might just be a travelogue based on recent caching experiences on the left coast.  You just never know with these people.  Come on out and find out!

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!  Especially Prog (Prolific Sleeping Bear) King's new one.  There's bound to be a new PrgoKing cache.  There almost always is.  Rumor this one is in the shape of a semi-colon......  
 
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!   We don't bite (well our zombies do, but we don't) , we're really nice!  Honest!  Ask anyone!  
 
When? 6:00PM to 8:00PM, on Tuesday, 18 MAR 2014.  Sadly, the third tuesday this month fell after the Ides, but all are encouraged to wear togas anyway!

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!
 

This month's raffle features stuff, things and some opf THOSE!!!!!

If you pick up a travel bug, please make sure that make sure you log it out so it doesn't show up in the event list.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)