Wait a minute...where'd the short description go?!?
Oh; here it is: The 68th in a series of monthly meet and greets in Eldersburg at Panera Bread from 6:00PM to 8:00PM. Attendees generally show up early, and It usually runs over. These people are enthusiasts!
Aah, 21 August. In 1959 on this day, Hawaii became the 50th U. S. state, by promising to support geocaching in state parks. Kenny Rogers was born on this day; today he is 79. Zekester was once mistaken for Kenny Rogers while strolling down Boulevard de Grande Case Grande Case, St. Martin. More recently he was mistaken for Trace Adkins while ordering a milkshake in Hoffman’s Ice Cream in Westminster. But I digress.
Leon Trotsky died on this day in May of 1940, the result of as blow to the head with an ice axe. It is not know if the ice axe had been previously used in hunting down glacial geocaches, but we suspect it might have been. Neither Zekester nor Simon has ever been mistaken for Trotsky.
The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre on this day in 1911. There is still some dispute as to whether Vincenzo Perugia thought there was the solution to a puzzle cache hidden behind the painting, or whether this was an elaborate stunt involving Alzarius, time travel, and a Mona Lisa Nostril nano. No evidenced thereof when the painting was recovered in 1913. Zekester has never been mistaken for Mona Lisa. The Mona Lisa has, however, been mistaken for Simon. But I digress.
Lot’s of folks married on this date. Tsar Peter III married Catherine the Great, Larry Flynt married Althea Leisure, and Bono married Ali Hewson all on the 21st of August. None of them were geocachers, more’s the pity. We asked Bono, and he replied that he’s never found the time.
Today is also a Christian Feast day honoring Our Lady of Knock. No doubt any Christian in attendance will be better able to explain that to any of you curious cachers than I. Zekester has never been mistaken for Our Lady of Knock, of that we can assure you. But I digress.
On this day in 1961 The Marvelettes released what would become Motown’s first # 1 hit, “Please Mr. Postman.” The song was about a young geocacher’s desperation to receive a letter from her boyfriend, who was abroad and supposed to be sending travel bugs back home to her.
Anyway...
The Carroll County Caching Fellowship (C3F) cordially invites you to enjoy the pleasures of the social side of the geocaching hobby! To find out who we are and what we're about, please visit (visit link) 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, bracelet, earings 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 assistance. If you are new to geocaching, we are eager to get your caching career off to an excellent start! 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 a travelling Little Free Library of geocachiong books! 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. All are welcome, so please come and join the crowd!
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, 21 August 2018.
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!
IMPORTANT NOTE: You are not required to purchase anything to attend this event.
This month's raffle may feature a variety of materials useful to cachers, possibly including, but not limited to: unmentionables; not just a bustier! That's right unmentionables (pathtags). Sometimes we also include: 6 volts of surging power, test tubes, tesla coils, erlenmeyer flasks filled with eau de manbear, a tone wheel, leftover unused materials from the zombie vats, surplus from the Mercury program, a Winnebago, a 1908 Citroen Karin, a haiku puzzle cache, a fully operational TV-B-Gone, a Soma Cube, magnetic toroids, an excellent recipe for oysters kirkpatrick, a baby cage (not the one in the gallery from Zekester's youth, but another one we found at a flea market), a stuffed whistle-pig, india ink, the ball from an IBM Selectric typewriter, an armillary (maybe two!) meatball cupcakes, or at least a recipe for them, mustard pickled eggs, U-bolts, lug nuts, a yodelling pickle, filberts, a pheasant claw, a mummified squid, night-vision goggles, geocacher cremains, a hanidtaur (or maybe two, one for each hand), Windex, marbles, a Lego lamb, a meteorite, one hobnail boot (left one, men's 45), a funnel (it was not used in the production of more turkeys, we promise), a mixed variety of animal footprint shoes, two potatoes, a virginal, a baby cage!, coriander, a skeleton key, a lock of Edgar Allan Poe's hair, a scrimshaw travel bug, a Toot-A-Loop transistor radio, an exultation of larks, tweezers, an egg cuber, a hard copy of the budget of the United States from 1953, eyeglass repair kits, a Hapifork, a condom autographed by "Smokey" from Las Vegas (we found it in a cache at the Pinball Hall of Fame), a wee bit of uranium ore (we got it on Amazon) a quill pen, a birdcage hand carved from a vegetable crate using nothing but a straight razor, by the Birdman of Leavenworth, a uphayinaphu (but not the juice, that's not permitted!), O-rings, D-rings, an LED water faucet, Sawyer, un-hatched Man-Goose eggs (fertilization status unknown), anisette biscotti, scratch-n'-sniff test cards, a FrogKing, filet mignon, a 5.5 ounce can of unicorn meat, flibberty-gibbets, Janet Jackson's infamous nipple shield (yes, that one, we got it on eBay for a song!!!), a harpoon (BUT NO HATCHETS!!!), a signed copy of Omoo, one unused but fully operational fornistat and a Bergonic Chair (we tried it on Alzarius, but it didn't work).