Medan, Indonesia
With heavy hearts and aching heads, the hooded mergansers said farewell to the trident thunderbolts. Spread your wings and be free, my Aussie children.
Medan, Indonesia
Towed by another rickshaw for the final 7 km but we made it! Ripped all her doors off in a show of manly triumph
Medan, Indonesia
Towed by another rickshaw for the final 7 km but we made it! Ripped all her doors off in a show of manly triumph
Medan, Indonesia
Towed by another rickshaw for the final 7 km but we made it! Ripped all her doors off in a show of manly triumph
North Sumatra, Indonesia
Successful day of relaxation inside the volcano. Drove scooters to a mountain top bar. We're coming for you, medan.
Padang, Indonesia
Our mighty rickshaw blew another gasket. We give and give but she just refuses to love us back. Fashioned another gasket out of aluminum. Collecting the burnt out ones like beanie babies. Josh rode around town on a scooter driven by a former world champion motorcycle racer. Terrifyingly awesome.
Pesisir Tengah, Indonesia
Everything broke today, but, like the noble phoenix, mighty rota shall rise again to love us once more. New suspension, new carb mount, head gasket rebuilt, drive shaft reconnected, and stabilizer bar about to be welded back together. We're gonna ride this lady hard tomorrow.@
Pesisir Tengah, Indonesia
Fashioning a new head gasket out of foraged aluminum. Hopefully this doesn't mark the end of team hooded merganser. On a happier note, we spent the night eating fish and drinking mystery booze with a crew of fisherman in a little hut over the water. It's amazing how far bathroom humor can go in crossing the language barrier.
Lampung, Indonesia
Operation transoceanic friendship is a roaring success. Had our photos taken with at least 50 muslim girls thus far. We also survived a nighttime drive through a sumatran mountain jungle in bandit territory.
Lampung, Indonesia
Head first into malariaville with the trident thunderbolts. Quite a few mosquito bites already. And love bites.
<p>We've hatched a plan to join The Adventurists, leave Seattle, fly to Bali, Indonesia, and race a moto-rickshaw through the jungles, mountains, and coasts of Indonesia to the Northern Sumatran Jungle. We have two weeks in October to complete this race. You can see more about it here:</p><p> <a href="http://www.theadventurists.com/the-adventures/asean-rickshaw-run">http://www.theadventurists.com/the-adventures/asean-rickshaw-run</a> </p><p> </p><p>Our Team for South East Asia Rickshaw Run October 2012</p><p>Team Hooded Merganser! </p><p>Joshua Albert Miles: the wind to your three sheets</p><p><img src="images/gallery09/8742/70010/400x400.jpeg" /></p><p>Nels Reese: the gnarly king of pacific pow</p><p><img src="images/gallery09/8742/70007/400x400.jpeg" /> </p><p>Scott Peters: the bearded wandering wierdo</p><p><img src="images/gallery09/8742/70006/400x400.jpeg" /> </p><p> </p><p>The Rickshaw:</p><p><img src="images/gallery09/8742/71257/400x400.jpeg" /> </p><p> </p><p>You can help us on this mission by donating to the charity working to save that jungle. </p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.justgiving.com/halfhandednaturalists">Birdlife International through Just Giving</a></p><p> </p><p>Interested in sponsoring our team's travel expenses and inevitable hospital bills?</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.smartypig.com/loves/thehalfhandednaturalists">Smarty Pig Fundraising Account</a></p><p> </p><p>With every sponsorship we promise to either paint your name or slap your company's sticker on our Rickshaw. And take topless pictures with it.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Thank you for the support, and keep track of our progress here as we move closer to the date of adventure.</p><p> </p><p>PS - if you have any Malaria pills sitting around, do feel free to share. </p><p> </p><p> </p>