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Fight Club meets Cannonball Run in a furiously funny road race through SOUTHEAST ASIA

Rich Archer is a laptop nomad, frustrated with America and searching for“real freedom” in Asia. A year in Bangkok is winding up when his best friend Monteblan shows up out of nowhere, ready to party. A wild night leads them to an old Bangkok bar where they discover Chicken 65.

This secret road rally race has been running since the Vietnam War. Drivers leave Bangkok at dawn, racing for a chicken that is waiting in Vietnam; the team that brings it back to Bangkok first wins. Flying in from around the world, drawing millions in bets, drivers tear their way through this legendary, illegal car race every year. A party for some, a battle for others, Chicken 65 has few rules and one law: finish the race.

Buying a ‘79 Datsun, Rich and Monteblan join Chicken 65. What they want is fun and freedom. What they get is high speed chaos filled with dynamite and snipers, car chases and ladyboys, melting mushroom trips, explosive shits and violent revolution. Racing on the razor’s edge of total freedom, the friends realize that winning The Chicken might mean losing their minds. Too fast to stop, too late to quit, they are pushed farther off the map and deeper into Chicken 65…

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Check out some shots I took while writing and flying around Southeast Asia:

Chasing The Bird in Laos

Chasing The Bird in Laos.