Nearly ready....

Welcome to everyone who's joined up to view The Mad Hatters' [Dean Bubley and Kat Klasnic] descent into danger and madness....

...well, we're about as prepared as we're going to be. I'm just about packed & ready for my 10am flight tomorrow.... while Kat is still fervently hoping that Indian bureacracy runs smoothly enough to get her delayed visa and follow 24 hours later. The plan is to meet in Delhi and then head on to the NE of India and Shillong, the start of the Rickshaw Run...

If all goes to plan, we should be able to spend Fri and Sat actually playing with the rick, test-driving and pimping it into a serious hatmobile. Or, quite possibly, just running around in circles wondering what prompted us to sign ourselves up for the ordeal...

In theory, the Run starts for real early on the 12th. We've been warned that the (new) engine on the rick needs to be run-in, so we'll be drifting along at a max 30km/h for a while. Probably sensible until we've got the hang of the Indian roads & traffic anyway!

As to the route... well, that depends. Our initial idea was to head across the North of India via Darjeeling, Varanasi and Orchha, then steaming down to Pune and on to Goa. We might still do that, as it goes via some cool-looking places. But we might also try and go in convoy with some of the other teams, which I suspect are more likely to head down the East Coast & then cut across. We'll see if our powers of persuasion can convince a few of them that we know the True Way instead....

Hopefully we should be updating this whenever we can find an Internet connection reliable enough.