On Tuesday, March 25, I decided to have 50 CWGs made so that I could hand these CWGs out to people and leave them in caches. I compared the prices of the cheapest shops selling CWGs ( The CWG price spreadsheet has vanished into Google Drive limbo.) so that I could pick the one that was both the cheapest and the best. The very cheapest turned out to be This link is now just a fossil from the days when people still trusted the internet. with a price of exactly 4 CZK, but they did not throw in a single free CWG and there was no gift either. Above all, though, I was worried (I now understand that I was somewhat mistaken) that the CWGs would not be made well, so I turned to This link is deader than Flash Player. instead, where each CWG cost 0.90 CZK more, but I would also get 5 CWGs as a gift plus a pen with my own nickname on it.
I called cwg-shop; my main concern was whether it would be ready by March 31, 2014, including delivery to me. The man on the other end of the “line” told me they should make it in time, so I immediately emailed him the photo I wanted on it: http://imgcdn.geocaching.com/user/large/12788497-0517-43cd-81c1-e8c558ec2df1.jpg . It is the photo from my GeoCaching.com profile: https://www.geocaching.com/p/?guid=901c41bc-8ca5-4f61-9364-6c400bd7c1c0 , but if you want to see it, you have to be logged in to GC.com.
However, this first proof turned out to be a disaster, judge for yourself:
And so the second proof, which was approved that very Tuesday, looked like this:
The next day, Wednesday, it was already made and they were just waiting for me to pay the rest – 109 CZK – so they could send it to me without cash on delivery. Luckily, I sent the money in the morning, and at 11 a.m. it left them on its way to the post office in Ropice. I really did not expect a transfer within the same bank to go through in 10 minutes, but it did. That day I went caching for the first time in Frydlant nad Ostravici and further east (Metylovice, Lhotka, Kozlovice, etc.), and the next day, Thursday, I was there again.
But that will be a separate article. On Wednesday they wrote to me in a text message that it would be at the post office the next day after 3 p.m. But when I checked the post office website on Thursday morning, it looked like it was already there. Still, I did not make it that day, because even if I had caught the right bus, I would have been in Ropice at 4:15 p.m. at the earliest, and that post office is only open until 4 p.m.
So I told myself that today I would at most go for a cache, namely Okoli Tesina – Zabi stezka (Around Tesin – Frog Trail) and others close by, and would not wander off anywhere far. You can see pictures of these CWGs at: link – Google+ shut down in 2019..
EDIT: So tonight at youth group I handed out 2/11 of my CWGs (in other words, 10 out of 55) and I am really glad that, even though it is such a small thing, it made people (or at least it seemed that way to me) very happy :-).