I promised more information on the Turbo Charge so here goes.
In 1990 the guys who own and run Turbo Glass decided after one or twenty beers that they would like to do a trip from Msuna (on the western shores of the Zambezi) to Lake Kariba (330km's East) on their boats and then back again. Initially the trip was called 'the piranha run' as this is the companies flagship product and has sold over 2000 of these boats to date.
So... With only one of 30 'men' having even the slightest knowledge of the journey they were about to undergo, no such thing as a GPS and large paperback maps as tools off they went!
 |
Each boat carried two men, ten crates of beer (no tins in those days) mattresses, food, fishing gear and enough petrol to get them to the next stage of the trip. Now in those days when Zimbabwe was still the breadbasket of Africa you could actually pull into a camp-site and be offered accommodation, hot food and the opportunity to refuel. (I will write up more on what has happened in the last ten years in a later blog.) So this made the trip so comfortable and and bit more bearable as noone actually knew where the hell they were!
What a success this trip was... A bunch of men in their 30's travelling to the unknown and coming back better for it. What they saw and achieved will never be forgotten. And this would form the base of what we all know and love 'The Turbo Charge.'
Twenty two years later we are still doing the trip. Although somewhat different, the journey remains the same... We don't have the luxury of staying in many well maintained lodges or camps, nor can we just arrive and ask for petrol, but being true Zimbabweans, we make a plan! Camping under the stars, carrying hundreds of litres of petrol on each boat and enjoying every second of what is and will always be a journey to cleanse the heart and soul of any man who attends...
More to follow!!
No comments:
Post a Comment