Challenge No 49 - Rickshaw Shank Redepmtion
Location - Vietnam
We'll be hiring a Rickshaw for the day. After swapping seats with him and making him our passenger we'll take him to see his family, take him sight seeing, take him for lunch and wherever else he wants to go! The day is on us!
Challenge set by Scot Herd
Location - Vietnam
We'll be hiring a Rickshaw for the day. After swapping seats with him and making him our passenger we'll take him to see his family, take him sight seeing, take him for lunch and wherever else he wants to go! The day is on us!
Challenge set by Scot Herd
Blog
March 21st 2008
Awakening bright eyed and bushy tailed (for once) we had a Challenge to complete. This was the Rickshawshank Redemption day (a Challenge name that we're still very proud of - we're bloody geniuses) and some lucky rickshaw driver was to have an easy and tranquil day on us. If anybody needs an easy day it's one of these guys.
March 21st 2008
Awakening bright eyed and bushy tailed (for once) we had a Challenge to complete. This was the Rickshawshank Redemption day (a Challenge name that we're still very proud of - we're bloody geniuses) and some lucky rickshaw driver was to have an easy and tranquil day on us. If anybody needs an easy day it's one of these guys.
When walking the streets of Nha Trang you get constantly asked by the rickshaw drivers if you want a ride (nothing sexual or dirty here either - sadly). However, when you actually want to find one they're nowhere to be seen. So we walked for a good twenty minutes before finding one.
The drivers name was Nam. We asked if we could hire him for the day and if we could drive. Both the price and the request to be driver were amicably agreed in a matter of seconds. Before you could say "I have an inny belly-button" Nam was jumping into the passengers seat with a massive grin and two thumbs up. What a happy chappy our Nam was. Lee, a bit bewildered by the ease of this transaction, climbed onto the bike and off he peddled. Nam was asked where he wanted to go and he quickly nominated his first destination as the beach.
Luckily, the beach was close and so Lee didn't have to peddle too far amidst the manic traffic. Furthermore, Lindsay, who was running along beside the rickshaw trying to film everything, was even more grateful than his dear brother for the closeness of Nam’s first pick.
Dismounting the rickshaw, Lee and his new best friend Nam strolled down the beach. They'd bonded so well during the four minute ride and felt so comfortable with each other that they embraced each other and held hands.
Half-an-hour or so later, Nam said he had enough of the beach and so, back on the bike he and Lee went. A slightly further journey to Nam's next request ensued. Lunch. Lee was slightly tired after peddling the rickshaw and was grumbling on and on about how it was hard on his ankles. Lee thought that his younger brother was ignoring him as he sat there saying nothing and bowing his head. Lee was wrong.
Lindsay had just run five blocks. Sometimes filming from behind, the side and even from the front. The front angle meant that Lindsay had to not only run to keep up with the rickshaw, but had to run faster than ever before in his hamburger-happy life so as to get in position. So, what was actually happening to Lindsay was this (from Lindsay hypochondriac's point of view); He wasn't responding to Lee's complaints of sore bloody ankles, as he was currently having a... heart attack.
The day was on us and so, we bought Nam a hefty lunch and even bought him a lady (to massage him) before we cycled him around town again. He said he had a great day and shook our hands and hugged us, he genuinely was beaming from ear to ear.