Day 3 and what a day! Just when you think nothing else can happen, it does. Well, it is Incredible India after all! The stars (or perhaps that should be the dunces) of the day were our tv hosts. After loosing sight of the film crew and running out of petrol, the guys decided it would be a good idea for Katie (our resident Ozzy blonde) to hitch a lift with a bunch of truck drivers to the nearest town. Lets put it down to a momentary lapse of reason brought on by the midday sun, but need less to say, Jon the producer, had a few choice words to say when finally catching up with them!
Good news though came in the shape of Katies Birthday! That’s right, our blonde ‘thunder from down under’ celebrated her birthday on the road! Big thanks to our production manager G2, who managed to rustle up a cake from somewhere, complete with icing and a birthday message written on it. I have no idea how he does it, but who cares! Happy Birthday Katie! Now please don’t go getting into any more trucks with strange men…
Back on the road and well, it had to happen sometime, didn’t it? Our nice little orange tuk-tuk got a flat! Normally this wouldn’t be a problem but no prizes what the guys found when they went to look for the ‘jack’. Yup, no ‘jack’! Undeterred our ingenious rickshaw pilots rigged up a kind of see-saw lever, using the girls as weights (no funny comments folks) whilst Gordon changed the wheel! Looking forward to seeing that footage!
Elsewhere, G2, continued to work his magic, this time persuading the Karnatak and Maharashtra state boarder officials that their estimated tax value of our camera kit was just a tad on the high side. After some intense negotiating, in the men’s toilet(!), it was decided no tax was applicable and the crew were on their way!
And finally, top honors of the day have to go to Shelley who managed to squeeze 80kmh out of the rickshaw today. And that was on a flat road with no tail wind! I think someone must have been doing some ‘secret pimping’ during the night. That or we must have the only tuk-tuk with twin carbs!
All this and it’s only day 3!
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