Originally posted on Monday, January 14, 2008
What a long strange trip it has been. We finished our Cerebral Codex adventure yesterday. Yes we climbed a mountain. From top to bottom, no trail most of the way, heading to the end of our journey. Thankfully we didn't have to go all the way to Cape May afterwards. It was long and grueling, but most everyone did really well. All that was left was to sign the log. One of our team members was on both our team and the team doing Chaos, so we arranged it that we would meet at 4 and sign and the other team would meet at 5 and sign there log and we would all meet at the Pic afterwards and celebrate our victories together. It worked out well and all in all there were 22 of us together that night. So we did. The place was packed when we got there and slowed down considerably during our stay. We talked and laughed and told our stories (the Chaos people told their stories of Chaos and we told our own stories of Chaos becasue we didn't want to give too much away to spoil their next adventure). We ate some and drank some and ate some more. We laughed and had a grand old time. Other people must have thought we were nuts, all this talk about caching that they would never understand unless they did it. We were calling each other mostly by our caching names and that had to have sounded strange enough. Then all the talks about swamps and swamp monsters and tree climbing and user names and psswords, we had quite the audience. When it was all said and done, we all hugged and kissed and said good night. Not before, however, I gave a dire warning. "Get the next challenge, read the book, finish all the puzzles and then do the field work. I would wait a little until you started though. I am exhausted." My team agreed and we laughed and then we started a pool to see how long before they finished Codex.
I finally got home and sat down at my computer to log my adventure. Finished up on geocaching.com and decided to check the local boards. Hmmm...no one had posted about our adventure yet. Maybe I will. So I opened up a new thread and wrote a congratulatory post to both our teams. I couldn't resist a little addendum to the owners of these caches that made us think so hard, climb mountains, cross swamps, get scratched by thorns and take up so much of our time.....
"Thank you DB and BNB for putting these together and challenging us. These where well thought out and did their job of bringing us together and challenging us. We made new friendships and strengthened old friendships. We thought and pondered, we argued some and laughed some, we got cut and bruised, dirty and filthy, we tested our brains and strained our muscles. But we prevailed. Hidden Agenda has one more big challenge before they can say this, but I have only one thing to say (to quote Chris):
"IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?????" "
An hour later I check the boards again and this response is there....
"HUGE congratulations to Team Hidden Agenda for completing Chaos and Team Unscripted Order, for completing Codex. Neither of these tasks are small accomplishments. I am glad that people continue to be challenged by and enjoy these caches. Again – Congratulations to ALL for a job well done!
.....And to answer Gipsie and Chris' question.....You haven't even seen the tip of the iceberg yet."
And he had little jersey devil icons all over. Chris calls me an hour later groaning, "Oh, what did you do? We are so screwed." So I issued the two most challenging people I know a challenge. And they accepted. I have to wonder what they have in store for us next....
What a long strange trip it has been. We finished our Cerebral Codex adventure yesterday. Yes we climbed a mountain. From top to bottom, no trail most of the way, heading to the end of our journey. Thankfully we didn't have to go all the way to Cape May afterwards. It was long and grueling, but most everyone did really well. All that was left was to sign the log. One of our team members was on both our team and the team doing Chaos, so we arranged it that we would meet at 4 and sign and the other team would meet at 5 and sign there log and we would all meet at the Pic afterwards and celebrate our victories together. It worked out well and all in all there were 22 of us together that night. So we did. The place was packed when we got there and slowed down considerably during our stay. We talked and laughed and told our stories (the Chaos people told their stories of Chaos and we told our own stories of Chaos becasue we didn't want to give too much away to spoil their next adventure). We ate some and drank some and ate some more. We laughed and had a grand old time. Other people must have thought we were nuts, all this talk about caching that they would never understand unless they did it. We were calling each other mostly by our caching names and that had to have sounded strange enough. Then all the talks about swamps and swamp monsters and tree climbing and user names and psswords, we had quite the audience. When it was all said and done, we all hugged and kissed and said good night. Not before, however, I gave a dire warning. "Get the next challenge, read the book, finish all the puzzles and then do the field work. I would wait a little until you started though. I am exhausted." My team agreed and we laughed and then we started a pool to see how long before they finished Codex.
I finally got home and sat down at my computer to log my adventure. Finished up on geocaching.com and decided to check the local boards. Hmmm...no one had posted about our adventure yet. Maybe I will. So I opened up a new thread and wrote a congratulatory post to both our teams. I couldn't resist a little addendum to the owners of these caches that made us think so hard, climb mountains, cross swamps, get scratched by thorns and take up so much of our time.....
"Thank you DB and BNB for putting these together and challenging us. These where well thought out and did their job of bringing us together and challenging us. We made new friendships and strengthened old friendships. We thought and pondered, we argued some and laughed some, we got cut and bruised, dirty and filthy, we tested our brains and strained our muscles. But we prevailed. Hidden Agenda has one more big challenge before they can say this, but I have only one thing to say (to quote Chris):
"IS THAT ALL YOU GOT?????" "
An hour later I check the boards again and this response is there....
"HUGE congratulations to Team Hidden Agenda for completing Chaos and Team Unscripted Order, for completing Codex. Neither of these tasks are small accomplishments. I am glad that people continue to be challenged by and enjoy these caches. Again – Congratulations to ALL for a job well done!
.....And to answer Gipsie and Chris' question.....You haven't even seen the tip of the iceberg yet."
And he had little jersey devil icons all over. Chris calls me an hour later groaning, "Oh, what did you do? We are so screwed." So I issued the two most challenging people I know a challenge. And they accepted. I have to wonder what they have in store for us next....
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