They said it couldn’t be done…

They said it shouldn’t be done…

But, we did it!!!!

WE FINISHED!!!!!!

HOLY COW!!!!!!!!!!!

What a journey.

As the organizers like to say, the Rickshaw Run is “Easily the least sensible thing you can do with two weeks.”  (and perhaps the most amazing)

Imagine a two week long, 10-12 hour a day rollercoaster, which you are steering, and the exhilaration comes from almost infinite, unpredictable and constantly changing variables (most of them mindboggling and positive).

That’s a little bit (little bit) of what it feels like to steer a tin capsule 3,000 kilometers from the north to the south of India in less than 2 weeks.

A big thank you to all of who are still reading this.

We raised enough money to put 10 young Indian women through college for a year, so a big thank you to all those who donated – you have directly helped to positively change lives.

And finally, a big, BIG thank you to India.

The people here have been incredibly welcoming, kind, gracious, polite, enthusiastic to meet us and helpful (almost to a fault (if such a thing is possible)).

I honestly can’t tell you how many times people came to our rescue and helped us when we were otherwise doomed (10x more than I wrote about).

I have many, many amazing and funny stories about how they helped us and “un-doomed” us, which hopefully one day I can share.

Our ridiculously amazing journey was capped off this morning by watching the sunrise on a 3 kilometer long beach that you can drive on (see below).

While we were watching the sunrise and taking photos on the beach, we got to play a little cricket with some local teenagers (see below).

Words cannot begin to do this whole experience justice…