Both Shelly and Gordon pushed their Rickshaw driving skills to their limits, by thankfully avoiding near fatal accidents with rampaging cows and huge indecisive semi trailers. Today also brought a couple of unpleasant moments for me when toilets were simply out of the question, so behind bushes again it was!! Shelly was lucky enough to have the pleasure of actually stepping on my patch of chosen grass and then as if that wasn’t enough stepping in the passing cows poo pile, NOICE! Maybe that ridiculous sized flask we were given by our producer today on the road could have come in handy, but we don’t accept stolen gifts on our rickshaw….!!
As I mentioned before I tried my hand at driving today, due to the fact that I was sabotaged and then strapped to the drivers seat by Gordon and Shelley.
I must say I certainly showed them that I can be like Mr. Shummie, but lets face it I’m just too lazy to drive and frankly after 5.5km behind the handle bars I thought, stuff this I’m outer here! That back seat and snooze break was calling out my name.
Apart from those minor details we had no major hiccups with the rickshaw today, no breakdowns, no flat tyres and certainly no wild adventures in trucks with total strangers. Just Shelley and Gordie and their near misses while I was trying to get my afternoon nap in. I just remember thinking how many damn bumps and massive holes on India’s roads and then suddenly nearly being thrown thru the windscreen or out the side of the little Rickshawy, safe.
All is well now and we arrived safely after rolling down the mountain near Furadapur, a few thousand insects but nothing to be worried about…..until the morning when Gordon’s face is covered in mosquito bites and I have to touch up with the fair and handsome foundation.
Off to Ajanta caves in the morning can’t wait, don’t know what it’s about but sounds exciting and incredible.
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