Duct Tape from Zimbabwe

Duct Tape # 60 comes to the collection from Sarah Ahrems-Balwig who is a neighbor of my daughter in Madison, Wisconsin.

My daughter, Mindy was at her neighbors high school graduation party and found out that Sarah was going to Zimbabwe for a month after graduation! Mindy explained the World Duct Tape collection to her and Sarah said she was in!

Sarah wrote:
"I had an incredible time on both the Zimbabwe and Europe leg of my trip. I looked for duct tape in every town I passed through, to no avail. After a day of walking through the bush, we emerged to see the most decrepit filthy Land Rover you can imagine. It looked as though it was entirely paneled with duct tape. This being the case, I figured they couldn't miss a piece, and wouldn't begrudge a hobbyist a piece."

The piece that Sarah got was attached to this notebook page on 7/15/15 and signed by Ron and Tash from Vintage Camp in Hwange, Zimbabwe. Nigil, Toks and Henry alsosigned the page for good measure!

It was great meeting Sarah. She is now off to her next adventure for several weeks of outdoor camping and naturalist skills study! She seems like a mature graduate well beyond her years.

Zimbabwe is a landlocked country in Southern Africa of about 13 million people. They have 16 official languages. Victory Falls is also in this country.

Chi Lambda battle axe and Duct Tape

This blogs main purpose is to attract, post and promote the collection of signed rolls of Duct Tape from new countries from all over the world that have been sent to me to add to the World Duct Tape collection. Here are the latest four rolls. #56 Algeria, #57 Belgium, #58 Finland and #59 Croatia. The details on each roll were reported in earlier posts to this blog.

At this years 2015 OM World Finals I gave out over 100 micro rolls of duct tape (also explained in an earlier post) and have joined Facebook in hopes of tracking down a roll from Moldova and other countries that were there.

On another note... Chi Lambda

The battle axe in the picture is for another project, The Bad Axe Tour (explained in an earlier post). Started in 2001 an axe like the one in the picture is being mailed around to past Chi Lambda fraternity members. At the 2015 alumni meeting in Boulder Junction, WI I said I would post the travels of the axe also on this blog. So from time to time the axe will show up with the tape reports.

Can report Gerry Tietz has signed the axe and placed a DVD on the Paul Derby scholarship in the box and mailed the axe to Larry Schoenberger Chi Lambda '64.  Hopefully Larry will contact me and let me know when he sends it on to another XV alumni in the near future.