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The year is 1850. You've decided to seek your fortune in the California gold rush

Posted on 3/26/25 at 6:36 pm
Posted by Jim Rockford
Member since May 2011
102190 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 6:36 pm
How do you get there?

1. Oregon Trail

Pros: cheapest.

Cons: Six months or more. Injuns, disease, starvation.

2. Boat to Panama, across the isthmus by donkey, another boat to California.

Pros: Quickest

Cons: you'll probably die of yellow fever.

3. Schooner around Cape Horn.

Pros: Relatively luxurious

Cons: You probably can't afford it. You may be lost at sea.
Posted by TDsngumbo
Member since Oct 2011
45433 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 6:38 pm to
I take a plane and land at one of the few airports that existed back then, just like Joe Biden said.
Posted by sqerty
AP
Member since May 2022
7221 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 6:39 pm to
Whichever way is the opposite of a Taylor Sheridan route
Posted by JEC119
Member since Apr 2024
1208 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 6:39 pm to
I was a sailor I was borne upon the tide

And with the sea, I did abide

I sailed a schooner round the Horn to Mexico

I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow

And when the yards broke off they said that I got killed

But I am living still
Posted by UptownJoeBrown
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2024
2216 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 6:39 pm to
I’ll sell shovels and pans where yall are leaving from.
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
67976 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 6:40 pm to
4. Teleport from the year 2025
Stack bars, then 86 that place. BOOM.
Posted by Gusoline
Jacksonville, NC
Member since Dec 2013
9930 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 6:41 pm to
No womens out there. Thats why we have so many gheys today.
Posted by Mr Roboto
Seattle
Member since Jan 2023
4345 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 6:43 pm to
Oregon trail easily
Posted by I Like Cheeze
Member since Dec 2024
29 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 6:51 pm to
Is yellow fever worse than dieing of dysentery on the Oregon trail?
This post was edited on 3/26/25 at 6:52 pm
Posted by Gifman
Member since Jan 2021
14787 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 6:57 pm to
Oregon Trail. I’d take my Land Cruiser there filled with automatic weapons and medications and MREs.
Posted by Espritdescorps
Member since Nov 2020
2190 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 6:58 pm to
I survived dengue hemorrhagic fever barely.. not taking my chances on yellow fever back then. Oregon trail
Posted by deltaland
Member since Mar 2011
96553 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 6:59 pm to
RIP Kris Kristofferson
Posted by SEClint
New Orleans, LA/Portland, OR
Member since Nov 2006
49077 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 7:00 pm to
Hope that's the next plot to RDR3
Posted by lsuguy84
CO
Member since Feb 2009
24862 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 7:02 pm to
quote:

I’ll sell crawfish where yall are leaving from
Posted by Ricardo
Member since Sep 2016
5723 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 7:03 pm to
Screw the gold rush... I'd open a Howard Johnson Hotel in Rock Ridge.
Posted by 56lsu
jackson mich
Member since Dec 2005
7623 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 7:09 pm to
i believe that was trump and the revolutionary war
Posted by Loup
Ferriday
Member since Apr 2019
14147 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 7:11 pm to
quote:

dengue hemorrhagic fever


Wtf is even that?
Posted by Corinthians420
Iowa
Member since Jun 2022
12838 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 7:26 pm to
quote:

I’ll sell shovels and pans where yall are leaving from.

i'll sell the whiskey
Posted by Cheese Grits
Wherever I lay my hat is my home
Member since Apr 2012
58706 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 7:33 pm to
4. Canada

Hunting and fishing the whole way out.

When I got there I would see what miners were spending their money on and enter that business. (run a brothel and bar in the meantime)
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
129907 posts
Posted on 3/26/25 at 7:37 pm to
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You probably can't afford it.



You know nothing about Sigmund Chesterbottom IV!
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