Highway To The Danger Zone

December, 2014

I greatly enjoyed your article about the Rickshaw Run (Across India on Three Wheels, October). Author Scott Yorko does an outstanding job describing the thrills and tribulations of running the subcontinent in a death machine. Hav­ing done the same trip myself—from Shillong to Jaisalmer—I greatly enjoyed reminiscing about the scary bits. Night driving, as Yorko writes, is a true terror. One time while my team was refueling at two a.m., a truck driver pulled up next to us and shouted orders to a n...