The Rickshaw Run Autumn 2011

Bob Twells
Of Jabba The Tuk
On the The Rickshaw Run Autumn 2011

The totals are in...

![](team_website_resources/5542/WeDidIt.jpg)After a fair bit of running around, chasing paperwork and counting coins, our fundraising total stands at an amazing **£2573.25**. This is absolutely staggering given our £1,000 target, which not so long ago seemed like we were going to struggle to hit.

So, from ourselves, but more importantly on behalf of Frank Water and the thousands of people this money will go to help provide with safe clean drinking water, **Thank You!** We've been amazed by the generosity and support of our friends, families, colleagues and intrigued strangers.

And for those wondering about the important matter ofjust how far we drove our Tuk Tuk, the figure came in at **3,084km***!

If you haven't seen them yet, we've uploaded a collection of some of our photos from the entire trip, so just [click here](http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobtwells/sets/72157627931987254/) to check them out.

**Thanks again, and here's to our next adventure!**

**For those paying attention you may remember we mentioned that our speedometer broke in Agra, so we didn't know after that point how far or fast we were going. However we did draw a line on our paper map every day to show where we had driven, so through the magic of Google Maps and some painstaking retracing we came to the figure above which is as about accurate as it'll ever be! :) *

Bob Twells
Of Jabba The Tuk
On the The Rickshaw Run Autumn 2011

Back to reality

Thanks to everyone for their support while we've been away. Now we're safely back in reality, we'll be collecting together various fundraising bits to get a final total, but we do at least know we've definitely raised over £2k which is amazing!

We'll also be sorting out photos and videos to bore you all with over the next couple of weeks, so keep a look out on here or Facebook for those.

*Bob *

Days 13 & 14 - Jaisalmer, the finish line

**Jaisalmer** - Finish, party and sacrificial burning of General Rickshaw

The finish line, yeah! Our adoring crowd awaits us.

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Team Rickshaw Rickshaw Ghali.

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Team General Rickshaw (they couldn't sit on their roof rack as it was held together by gaffer tape).

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The Palace Hotel with the algae green pool and warm gin and tonics, nothing but the best for us.  Looks pretty from the outside though.

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A lap of honour round Jaisalmer for all the rickshaws who managed to make it to the finish line in the 14 day deadline (30 teams were still M.I.A. when we arrived).

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One of the teams running out of petrol on a busy roundabout during the lap of honour!

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The final party, (picture taken from the palace roof just before they threatened to stop the party unless we all got down).

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The party was fancy dress, but we decided to opt out and go in our normal clothes instead.

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We finally made it.  Two weeks of stress, break downs, laughter, more break downs, tears, boutros dancing, breath taking sights, incredible people, not so incredible people and did we mention break downs? 

Was it fun? Sometimes.  Was it stressful? Most of the time.  Did we have an adventure? Definitely.  Would we do it again? Probably not.  But we're really glad we did it and that Aliisha and Anthony of General Rickshaw were there with us through the whole ordeal.

Most importantly, thanks to all you lovely, kind people we managed to reach and exceed our sponsorship target.  Now Mr Frank Water can go and build some new clean water filtration systems in lots of remote Indian villages.   

 

Day 12 - Jodhpur

**Jodhpur - **The Blue City

With General Rickshaw now actually running quite smoothly, Chai instead of break-downs became our reason to stop. We'd find tea stands in even the most isolated of places.

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Friendly faces on the road. We'd seen a lot of families on bikes the whole week and had been trying to get a good shot. We drove along with this family for a while and at one point they passed us and gave us this great photo. Not having a cruise control switch on the bike, extra credit to dad for teaching his youngest to do the job.

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Jess' caption: Cows were everywhere, on the streets, in the middle of the roads, in people's houses.  As was the evidence of cows...their poo.

Andy's caption: 'Hello, my name is Daisy. Have you considered letting the light of Jesus Christ into your lives? No? Ok well thank you for your time.'

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Andy and Anthony take a well earned dip in the nicest hotel we'd stayed in so far.

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At last some clues that we were going int he right direction.  One more day of driving (hopefully).

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Days 10 & 11 - Jaipur and Pushkar

**Jaipur & Pushkar** - The pink city and the hunt for special lassis

The madness of the pink city.

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The fantastic sweets in the famous Lakshmi Misthan Bandar (LMB).

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Yet more break downs with Generak Rickshaw, this time the gears; stuck in 3rd.  At this point we were all having the same dream - setting General Rickshaw on fire and dancing around it once we reach Jaisalmer.

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We saw some interesting vehicles on the road, and proof that you don't need more than an engine, some wheels and a chair to get around.

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Stopping off for a really tasty street food breakfast.

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We arrive in Pushkar and some of the local boys decide to hop on for the ride (including the roof of General Rickshaw).

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Days 8 & 9 - Agra and even more repairs

**Agra**

We crawled into Agra at 30km/h which was by now General Rickshaws top speed.  All of us pretty fed up by this point and we knew we couldn't go any further with General Rickshaw in his current state.  Thankfully we met a rickshaw driver called Ajay who happened to know a good mechanic.  Fed up with the constant rebuilding we bought a brand new carburettor.

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 The rickshaws outside our hotel.

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After one entire week, our first real tourism trip. 

Being silly inside Agra Fort.

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Being serious outside the Taj Mahal. 

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Aliisha's face pretty much sums up all of our moods when General Rickshaw's exhaust decided to fall off on our exit from Agra.  Luckily for us Andy bought a 10inch cresent wrench with him (he doesn't leave home without it).

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Start Date
Saturday 10th September 2011
Start Line
Shillong
End Date
Saturday 24th September 2011
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