re: You have 24 hours to hide & If u stay hidden for a week you get $1 billion. Where do u go?

With 24 hours lead, I'd pick a sailboat. Not my boat because that would be to obvious. There are plenty of sailboats (mine included) that rarely leave the dock. I'd "borrow" one of those, chances are it would not be noticed for over a week. Provisioning for one weeks journey might take some planning but would be easily doable.

With 24-hours lead from NOLA, you could be well past the O&G rigs in the GOM. Since I can walk to my marina, I might even take my boat first then switch vessels at another marina, sinking mine.

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I'll be speaking with your Mother when I get home. Something is amiss.

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If you can get past my Dad, I'll give you $350.

The hard part is how you use the 24 hours to avoid someone tracing your steps.

The NW US forests, or the Atchafalaya, or the everglades idea might work, however if someone can trace you or your vehicle to a point of entry, no matter how far you go into the wilderness an experience tracker or group of trackers withe right motivation (money) would find 99.999 percent of us within 24 hours.

I also like the parachute into the Amazon idea, but your odds of getting out alive are probably lower than your odds of lasting a week.

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You could easily hide in a nondescript forested area for a week.

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With a 24 hour head start you'd never find me. Easy billion.

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With a 24 hour head start you'd never find me.

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Because?

I'd join in with the people looking for me

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Provisioning for one weeks journey might take some planning but would be easily doable.

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Provisions for one week includes:

- A case of bottled water

You all understand you can survive without food for a week, right? If you want to indulge, grab a pack of kind bars while you pick up your case of bottled water.

Everyone saying to hide in the woods would be found very quickly. There's enough helicopters with thermal cameras to cover the entire US in a couple of days. They would likely have a pretty good idea (within a couple hundred miles) of where you are, so they will cover that area in no time. You'll stick out like a sore thumb in the woods by yourself.

I still think that distractions are key and hiding in plain sight is your best bet. Tape your phone to an 18-wheeler, drive your car to an airport, buy some camping gear, etc., then jump on a train to the nearest large city you can find and try to blend in.

So have we figured out if the person that finds you gets the prize?

If so, I'll just have the wife turn me in.

Profit.

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You could easily hide in a nondescript forested area for a week

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With a 24 hour head start you'd never find me.


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Because I know the woods, where to hide, and how to survive.

This would be easy to do for me. I know of some land that used to be in my family. It has a bomb shelter hidden on it. It is a commercial property now and I visited it awhile back and the current owners have idea it is even there. Only 3 ppl alive know it is there. My Dad, my brother and me. It would be easy to pack some water, some sandwiches and disappear for a week.