I am making my dreams come true….

 

Twenty years from now, you will regret more what you didn’t do than what you did. So untie the ropes, leave the safe haven. Catch the auspicious winds in your sails. Travel. Dream. Explore.

Mark Twain

When asked where the idea of organizing convertible expeditions came from, like nothing I reached for the deepest long-hidden shelf, namely the books of my childhood… Pablo Neruda once said quote: “Slowly dies he who does not travel, he who does not read…”. Well, it’s hard to deny, I had my first great adventures on the pages of books by Hanna Ozogowska, Zbigniew Nienacki, or Seweryn Szmaglewska, by the way, the famous in the 80’s ” Black Feet” pushed me, fortunately, as it turned out later in the hands of Andrzej Janka, the best team leader of the 4th GDH named after him. Baon Zośka that we could have dreamed of at the time. What beautiful years those were, every week in a tent, in the woods, orienteering rope crossings, a wonderful time. There is also no denying the fact that at home at that time was ” not overflowing” or perhaps more to the point, from my mother’s nursing salary could not do much, I well remember brought as part of savings in the so-called “savings”. hospital lunches, so the best ticket to great adventures that were on hand and beyond the neighborhood backyard was books.

 

It was those adventures, then on the pages of “soulfully” devoured books brought by mother from the hospital library in the evenings, that were an escape to another world, those ciphers in “The Secret of the Green Seal” castles and riddles in “Mr. Samochodzik Knights Templar” or camp crossings are nothing more than a memory of childhood adventures, and this probably became the key to the idea of convertible adventure trips. Dreams of a young boy, today can come true, maybe in a slightly more adult way, but that was the point, on the one hand not to forget, on the other hand to survive.

As is usually the case, I told the idea to several people from very different backgrounds, deliberately to hear opinions on what they think about such a form of realization (somewhat selfishly, of their own passion, of their dreams). It started as usual in such situations, i.e.:” it’s already been done”, I heard that “someone did and it didn’t work out”, or ” don’t you have enough work?”. And the best part was that, quote: “one company calculated it and it came out that for such an expedition you have to give about 4 thousand… per couple in Poland” The first person who in a flash understood what I was talking about was Pawel Szewczyk – a friend from Warsaw who, despite the fact that he himself does not own a convertible, strongly supports and helps from the legal side of our initiatives, it was he who first said that the idea is worth attention, then a visit to the Zvolacks and a gleam in Maciek’s eye were the driving force for action and organization of the Cipher Fortress. The direction of the event was the idea of Maciek Zvolack, who, in love with the area, talked over an evening beer about how he and Kasia ran around Czocha Castle naked, the history of the sites and that it was worth it. This “worth” is often in contrast to common sense, but what the heck! After all, it’s worth it!I knew from the beginning that it didn’t take much to invite these #self-positivepeople to join in the fun and today, we’ve completed our first “CASSROOM TOWNSHIP EXPEDITION”!

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