Ramblings

It’s not a Rickshaw Challenge without making friends with locals.   On the Mumbai Xpress Rickshaw Challenge, it’s not just about the challenges. It’s also about making friends: with other participants, but also everyone you encounter along the way. Here is a great photo collection of teams doing just that.   The Many Ways to Make...Read More

Days 2 and 3 of the Mumbai Xpress 2017.   By now the Mumbai Xpress Rickshaw Challenge 2017 is well underway, and teams are braving the Indian roads and… rain. Here’s Princely with his update from Day 2 and 3:   Suburb Driving Being a Sunday, the second day of Rickshaw challenge Mumbai xpress 2017...Read More

A talented Malabar Rampage participant has made a beautiful Rickshaw Challenge travel journal.     Faustino Rodriguez Quintanilla, who completed the Malabar Rampage this year as a member of Team Karacol, has made an incredible rickshaw challenge travel journal. It includes beautiful drawings, mementos, and tells the story of the event. He posted all the pages...Read More

The final recap from the Deccan Odyssey 2017.     The Deccan Odyssey Rickshaw Challenge is over for another year, and so we can bring you a (slightly belated) final recap from Princely. On the final three days, teams explored the incredible Ellora caves, partied at a vineyard, and finally reached Mumbai. Here’s Princely with his...Read More

On Days 4, 5, and 6 of the Deccan Odyssey 2017, the teams left Karnataka and explored Maharashtra.     In the latest installment of our Deccan Odyssey 2017 recap, Princely tells us all about the adventures of the Rickshaw Challenge on Day 4 (Belgaum to Kolhapur), Day 5 (Kolhapur to Pune), and Day 6 (Pune...Read More

The Tamilnadu Run is now well underway, and the participants of the tuk tuk adventure rally have already had their fair share of adventures. The participants left Chennai early on Day 3 heading to the former French colony of Puducherry. Day 4 saw them race South to Thanjavur, before turning Northwards on Day 4 to the hill station of...Read More

Cochin Jews are India’s oldest Jewish community, their time in Kerala dating back millennia. For at least one thousand years, and possibly much longer, there have been Jews living in the region of Kerala, on India’s South Western Malabar coast. Though most have since moved to Israel, a select few remain, continuing to live peacefully...Read More

If food could talk on their food choices for what they eat, and want to eat, in Siqi Song’s awesome animated documentary about FOOOOOOOOOOOD! FOODRead More

What if Google tried to blackmail you into using Google+? Google is trying harder than ever to force people to sign up for Google Plus. And now, they’ve discovered a new strategy to do this: either you join Plus, or they’ll release your search history and all the private information they’ve learned about you over...Read More

Christoph Rehage set foot from Beijing, China with a goal of walking to Berlin, Germany, a distance of over 4,500 miles. He created a short video called “The Longest Way 1.0“, documenting his journey and featuring self portrait photographs he took each day on his trip that shows his beard getting longer.Read More