Distorted
08-02-2008, 17:07
Inspired by http://zreportage.com/TRAIN/TRAIN_Results1.shtml
You are tasked to aid in the study of central american migration patterns by performing a migration yourself. You are dropped by parachute (starting altitude sufficient to allow you to get an idea of your immediate vicinity) into an unknown part of Guatemala, in the middle of the jungle, your goal is to reach your current position within the US. You have an 'emergency' phone number, but the Border Patrol does not know you're coming.
You may not take advantage of your status as an American citizen.
The difficulty is variable:
Easy: You have as much prep-time as you need, may take anything you want (including currency), start in a specific but remote location, and may place people along the way to collect information and offer assistance, but if you take too long to prep, they'll give the job to someone else.
Medium: You have two hours to prep, and have been given some names, locations, and phone numbers.
Hard: You have whatever is on your person right now.
Nightmare: You are bonked over the head and wake up as you're being booted out of a helicopter into a clearing, wearing a hawaiian t-shirt, shorts, and pair of flip-flops.
Optional Challenge: Your wife is two-months pregnant and wants to go, in the same conditions you're given.
How's your Spanish?
Can you do it?
What do you take?
How much will it cost
How do you plan to make it home?
What do you look for on the way down, and how does seeing it affect your immediate plans?
What kind of problems do you expect to face, and how will you deal with them?
How long will it take?
Additionally, what do you think is in this guy's backpack, and how are his chances of success? http://www.zreportage.com/graphics/TRAIN/highres/002.jpg
Some notes (much more is probably needed): Guatemala has some of the worst malnutrition rates in the world, Mexico's rural areas are significantly more dangerous criminal-wise than its' cities, and there is real danger of freezing to death in parts of the US border.
You are tasked to aid in the study of central american migration patterns by performing a migration yourself. You are dropped by parachute (starting altitude sufficient to allow you to get an idea of your immediate vicinity) into an unknown part of Guatemala, in the middle of the jungle, your goal is to reach your current position within the US. You have an 'emergency' phone number, but the Border Patrol does not know you're coming.
You may not take advantage of your status as an American citizen.
The difficulty is variable:
Easy: You have as much prep-time as you need, may take anything you want (including currency), start in a specific but remote location, and may place people along the way to collect information and offer assistance, but if you take too long to prep, they'll give the job to someone else.
Medium: You have two hours to prep, and have been given some names, locations, and phone numbers.
Hard: You have whatever is on your person right now.
Nightmare: You are bonked over the head and wake up as you're being booted out of a helicopter into a clearing, wearing a hawaiian t-shirt, shorts, and pair of flip-flops.
Optional Challenge: Your wife is two-months pregnant and wants to go, in the same conditions you're given.
How's your Spanish?
Can you do it?
What do you take?
How much will it cost
How do you plan to make it home?
What do you look for on the way down, and how does seeing it affect your immediate plans?
What kind of problems do you expect to face, and how will you deal with them?
How long will it take?
Additionally, what do you think is in this guy's backpack, and how are his chances of success? http://www.zreportage.com/graphics/TRAIN/highres/002.jpg
Some notes (much more is probably needed): Guatemala has some of the worst malnutrition rates in the world, Mexico's rural areas are significantly more dangerous criminal-wise than its' cities, and there is real danger of freezing to death in parts of the US border.