Today I went to an annual event in San Jose called “Little Shop of Horrors”  (GC1FPJ4).  I met Marky & Joani (Charter members to Geocaching.com), digitalfish (Creators of geofish.net one of the most sophisticated tracking systems for geocaching, as well as TheGBA.net and some other sites), Team Alamo (Number 1 cacher in the world), DavidT21 & Fisherwoman (Number 5 cacher in the world).  I also met one of the California reviewer’s and some other people that make every other cache event I have been too seem petty.  The coolest part about all of this though, they all knew me.

Team Alamo grabbed my GPS from me and told me to throw it away and get a new one, after having issues trying to find a recent hide of mine that was over 50 feet off.  Marky slowly offered his hand asking me if I was going to delete his logs if he didn’t shake my hand.  (inside joke).

I knew most of these names from New York but I never thought I would meet them and then never thought that they would know me personally like this.

The whole event gave me a different perspective on California.  I am not sure if it was the group of mid-aged adults shooting a potato gun 500′ down a heavily residential street in broad daylight, (landing feet from my car) or if it was the intensive workshop that had me re-thinking some of my own caches and feel that I need to go through and drop everything down a star.  They gave evil a new meaning today.

It was a very fun, very friendly day.  Gave me a better look on life here in California.  Now if I could find a way to get my wife to feel the same way.