Current at 3/14/2007 (Online waypoint URL)
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Traditional Cache Sterling TB Museum by Curator DopeyDuck (1/1)
N33° 40.141  W117° 51.289 (WGS84)
UTM  11S   E 420754  N 3725786
Use waypoint: GC10EPF
Size: Regular    Hidden on 2/5/2007
In California, United States
bug (This cache may contain travel bugs)
Chatty Notepad (ref = TB1222W)
Dust Devil (ref = TBKGHD)
GT's BLUE RALLY RACER (ref = TB15BYB)
Jalapeno (ref = TB19BH8)
Off To See The Lizard (ref = TBGYRA)
Oink Oink Aloha (ref = TBPX1J)
Temecula Valley Event Geocoin (ref = TBT4HM)
The Cache Guardian (ref = TBKDZ5)
Yellow M-n-M Bug (ref = TBGRAC)
Difficulty:   *    Terrain:  *

Welcome to the Sterling TB Museum!

The Sterling Travel Bug museum is a safe-house for TB’s and a drop-off point for artifacts on a “touring exhibition” to catch a plane at John Wayne Airport. Some might call the museum a private collection, but rest assured, admission is free and open to the public. The “docents” will be happy to help you locate the “signature piece” of the museum. If you have time, be sure to take some time to enjoy the self-guided tour and check out the “gift shop”.

Museum Hours are:
Mon-Fri from 8am-7pm
Sat-Sun from 9am-5:30pm

Transfer of Artifacts: Just like a traditional museum, Travel Bugs and Geocoins should be “formally accessioned by being registered in the museum's collection with an artifact number and details recorded about their provenance.” In other words, please be sure to discover or log your TB’s in and out. This is not a TB Jail/Hotel with occupancy rules, but please use good judgment on how many items you take.

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Current at 3/14/2007

Found it 3/12/2007 by 2spacecadets
Just flew into Joh Wayne and had a few minutes before my business meetings started. What a great idea. T-Unite for Diabetes TB, L- GT's Blue Rally Racer TB. TFTC

Found it 3/8/2007 by Ender & Daisy
Went to the museum today and took a look around before a doctors appointment. Left Jalapeno TB, hopefully someone will pick him up on their way out of town and he'll get some mileage. TN since I only had 15 mins or so before my doctors appointment and instead of taking a peek at what I thought would be neat to trade, I spent most of the time explaining what geocaching is to one of the people who worked there who was interested :P

Found it 3/5/2007 by Road2Ruin

I dropped in after making a run to drop Luke off at the airport. What a fun place! The first docent I found knew right where to go. I took the PA coin ("Virtue, Liberty and Independence"), Lonesome Cowboy, Colin Tosayhi, and the Abu Kamal Syria diabetes bug. I left Chatty Notepad, The Cache Guardian, Dust Devil and the Ridgewood, USA diabetes bug.

Thanks for the fun!

~Mary

Found it 3/4/2007 by MIBAlienHunter
A beautiful day for ..what else ...cach'n with the Famous Sham!
I noticed just near by on a shelf behind me to the right as I was at this cache, a sign selling "Purple Stuff"?? is that "stuff" legal??
Neat store with lots of camo ideals(that I'll never use)
I didn't take anything,or leave anything either,Thank you for the Hide...Cool

Found it 3/4/2007 by the Druids
Out caching with the Mojostones in the Irvine area late this afternoon. Lots of people here were willing to help us on our guided tour of the museum. Left of the Colin Tosayhi travel bug and picked up 3 others to move to caches in the near future. GREAT gift shop. We made a purchase before leaving and definitely plan to return. Saw several likely items to use for future travel bugs. We even met up with another artifact lover just as we were leaving. Thanks for the great SECURE place to exhibit our treasures!

Found it 3/4/2007 by ShamRider
Out and about in Irvine picking up a few caches with MIB. We have heard A LOT of good things about this cache, so we decided to put it on the "to do list" today. Moved three TBs and three geocoins in, and removed three TBs and three geocoins. Thanks for the great cache!

Found it 3/4/2007 by mojostones
#582. This was a very enjoyable find! Found this while caching with the Druids today. The first "curator" we encountered gave us a clue where to look. After locating the beautifully decorated container, we exchanged TBs & coins, then browsed the "museum." Many interesting items, including some possible future cache containers. Druid Carol made a purchase at the "gift shop." On our way out, we met Boilermaker82, nice to meet you! Thanks DopeyDuck for the great TB Museum!

Found it 3/4/2007 by Boilermaker_82
Got some strange looks from a guy at the counter with my query. And just then two fellow geocachers walk by. The tell tale sign of a handheld GPS gave them away. We chatted and chuckled at the location. They pointed me in the direction and off I went. Nice collection. I just admired and discovered a bunch.

Found it 3/3/2007 by d three and cappie g
Found today, before leaving for Maui, left 3 geocoins, took 3 tbs

Found it 2/27/2007 by Team Rand
Found it while doing some caching with Santa & Mrs. Had to ask a couple of times. Thanks for the fun cache.

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