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, chiggers, 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!
By the way, the C3F now has a Google Plus Group which all are free to join. Please feel free to conatct Zekester & Simon for details.
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
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Bah. Pesky government weenies. Just because there was a huge breakout of zombie travel bugs in Dixie recently doesn't mean it is a problem here. That's a bunch of malarkey! There IS NO GOVERNMENT in Eldersburg. It is just a census designated place (CDP), whatever that means. Come on out, it'll be just fine!
{insert hidden secret subliminal cache event message here that they won't know about unless they look really close: Blind Tiger}
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: caching challenges, challenge caches, and the challenges of caching. Any requests? Feel free to make a request for a future topic in your 'will attend' log!
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! There's probably a new one just for this event. There usually is. ProgKing just can't restrain himself! There might even be a new Z&S or Deepdish23 hide! Take a few minutes out from your time at the local speakeasy and come and join us!
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 NOV 2014.
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 may feature a variety of materials useful to cachers, possibly including, but not limited to: 6 volts of surging power, test tubes, tesla coils, erlenmeyer flasks, leftover unused materials from the zombie vats, surplus from the Mercury program, pathtags, a Winnebago, a haiku puzzle cache, india ink, the ball from an IBM Selectric typewriter, U-bolts, lug nuts, filberts, a pheasant claw, night-vision goggles, marbles, a funnel (it was not used in the production of more turkeys, we promise), two potatoes, and scratch-n'-sniff test cards.
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.
Odd travelbugs have been known to show up at this event. Harpoons. Crocodile heads. Gargoyles. Auto parts. What coukld it be this time???