NAAN STOP
ADVENTURES
We have had this "event" on our bucket list for a while. With work and life we have a fantastic opportunity to travel overseas for a few months, partake in the Rickshaw Run and change the lives of children while we are visiting the subcontinent.
So what is the "Rickshaw Run"?
A 3,500km pan-Indian adventure in a 7 horsepower glorified lawnmower. The Rickshaw Run is easily the least sensible thing to do with two weeks.
At each end of the Run is a party of earth shattering proportions but what is between them is all down to you. And luck - good or bad.
No set route, no back-up, no way of knowing if you're going to make it. The only certainty is that you will get lost, you will get stuck and you will break down.
It's just you and your mates in a wholly unsuitable vehicle, traversing the subcontinent enduring whatever shit the road throws at you.
Who organisers such a ridiculous event?
That would be The Adventurists. Fighting to make the world less boring.
Our planet used to slap us about the face-cheeks with iron fists of adventure every day. Maps had edges to walk off. Men feared the monsters that swam the seas. Entire civilisations lay unknown.
But now, the entire surface of the Earth has been scanned by satellites and shovelled into your mobile phone tagged with twattery about which restaurant serves the best mocha-latte-frappeshite.
Getting lost and in trouble is no longer an occupational hazard of walking to the market. It is an art-form. One we strive to perfect.
We live to find ways to make the world a bit more difficult. To bring chaos into our over-sanitised lives. To create adventures where you don't know what will happen tomorrow or if you'll even make it.
Because we think there's no greater moment than those seconds when you leap into an abyss of uncertainty and disaster.