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Cape Horn?

posted 13 years ago by DaytonaBob
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I liked the movie. It was a good little popcorn flick and I got my 8 bucks worth. And despite the haters there was nothing really wrong with it.

BUT in the beginning they talk about Cape Horn and Tom says it's beautiful and a great bunch of islands and then they end up driving there. Yeah that's gonna happen.

First of all no one wins a trip to Cape Horn. There is nothing there. No people except for a tiny military outpost and that is it. So where ya gonna stay. No resorts, nothing.

The weather, a great deal of the time, is horrible. I mean really bad. Anyone watch Mutiny on the Bounty,or Master and Commander?; those scenes were what the place is like more often than not.

I realize it's a movie but it seems with all the beautiful places in the world, that would be among the last places to go to. And the drive? That would be among the most dangerous.

Like I said, I enjoyed the movie and pretty much did the whole suspension of disbelief but that Cape Horn thing. Should have ended up on a large sailing ship to Tahiti.

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[–] robocat893 13 years ago

Maybe they wanted to get away from it all to a place that would be the last spot anyone would look for them.

Beside, with a couple of sleeping bags, tents, a Coleman stove or two Cape Horn could be a fun place to camp.

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[–] Katiedot 13 years ago

Well, yeah. But the geography in that film was wild and random anyway. His tropical hideout was supposed to be in the Azores. That's in the North Atlantic and about as tropical as other places on the same latitude, such as New York or Lisbon . . .

But still, we're happy to accept the invention of a perpetual energy machine but quibble about the weather in some random parts of the globe?

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[–] Xardas 13 years ago

In my opinion it was done on purpose. The whole film is like a parody.

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[–] hka-3 12 years ago

You're probably right about it being on purpose. A few times I've unsuccessfully tried to imagine them making the drive all the way down there. Too many obstacles. Would be nice though if we lived in a world where we could drive from one continent to another like that with nothing more to worry about than geography and weather conditions.

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[–] nutsberryfarm 12 years ago

sounds like a good use for stimulus funds!

His name...was Julio Iglesias!

[–] hka-3 12 years ago

A quite practical use, indeed! Hey, did you know Wedding Band is on tonight? That's what I heard anyway

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[–] hka-3 12 years ago

We should use stimulus funds to supply ourselves with wings so we can fly unencumbered to anywhere we want to go, just like birds do

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[–] jporter-6 13 years ago

You can't REALLY drive from the U.S. to Cape Horn, bad weather and empty vistas notwithstanding.

Between the Mexican border and the Cape Horn is, to name two things, the Darrien Gap and banditos. The Darrien Gap is a swampy rain forest that has paramilitary patrols ranging through. If nature doesn't get you, some smelly guy (or gal) in a green uniform and green cap, will. There are reports that some people have 4-wheeled through the Gap, but I doubt there have been many, and I seriously doubt Cruise and Diaz would have made it. Most idealists who want to visit the banditos-infested lands of Central and South American, usually ferry around it. (And everyone knows what banditos are. No, not corn chips.)

[–] tjones202 12 years ago

No, you most certainly cannot drive from North America to South America. There are untold obstacles and a few thousand square miles of a nearly impassable swamp with the Darien Gap. Once upon a time there was a ferry service that would aid adventurers and locals in navigating part of it, but they are likely special charter only these days and would not be for the average commuter, or get you very far.

There has been talks of extending the Pan American Highway to bridge the gap, A.K.A. "The Great Route of the Americas," from Venezuela to Panama, but Panama seems to enjoy their natural buffer from the rest of Central/South America. Central America is largely a nightmare for road travel and drug trafficking. No way, it would be comparable to building the Alaska highway, and with a cost estimated at around $1 billion. Plus all of it would have to come together with the Centennial Bridge in Panama.

...and yes, I doubt you would want to take your family through many parts of Central America as much of the PA Highway is simply a series of crappy interlinked roads. Even if you were able to travel the entire way, it's largely a very unruly place. Even driving through many parts of South American would not be advisable.

That said, it would probably be a boon for the economies to bridge the gap, but who would finance it? Columbia has tried, but they cannot do it without Panama. Not to mention it would be like traveling across Europe with all the pain in the butt restrictions from country to country and give easier access to drug runners.

[–] jporter-6 12 years ago

Be interesting to know if they could have afforded to ferry around the Darrien Gap. I don't recall any great reserves of cash they had access to unless Roy Miller had been stashing money.

[–] psdhart 12 years ago

Between the Mexican border and the Cape Horn is, to name two things, the Darrien Gap and banditos

I thought the same although I asm sure I heard of americans driving to the Nazca lines in Peru