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How to Disappear Without a Trace
Uncle Frank
Why would you want to disappear? Maybe you just left your abusive husband. Maybe you owe the IRS a lot of money. Maybe you just accidentally murdered 16 people after a drug binge where you accidentally mixed your LSD, cocaine, ex-lax and diet pepsi (you knew better than that from the last time).
But now you need to disappear. First, you need to really sit down and resolve that you really want to disappear. You need to leave your old life behind completely. Can you do that? Can you leave behind everyone you love, the United States itself, friends, family and your job? You can't partially disappear. You have to decide what you want.
Now that you have decided to disappear for whatever reason, let's get into the mechanics. Your actual reason for leaving doesn't matter. You need a new reason... one that your new friends and peers can identify with.
A great current reason is to escape U.S. government persecution. Since 9-11, the U.S. has sunken into a shit hole pretty fast. A lot of people are leaving because they are scared or because they simply have no way to continue to live in the U.S. because of a medical problem that they can't afford to deal with or back taxes or child support.
There is an exodus. You will be joining that. Being someone behind on child support or having a chronic (non-catching) disease and not being able to afford medical care in the U.S. is a lot better back story for your new peers than your drug binge story/mass murder story. Even if you are escaping an abusive spouse, it is better to use a back story so that your real story doesn't spread back to your danger source.
OK, so you owe back taxes and can't get a job because they will just garnish every penny... or you have diabetes and can't afford the medical care. You have your back story.
Now you get your equipment. Hopefully, you have a passport. If not, consider trying to get one before you disappear. You might not be able to get one if you owe back taxes or child support. If you ever held a Top Secret security clearance, you will also be surprised to find out that you can't get a new passport or get your current passport renewed without talking to the officer of security at the company or agency where you worked.
But enforcement is sporadic, so give it a try. You might also need to disappear before you can get a passport. It used to take 6-8 weeks or a week or two if you paid the expedite fee. So many people are escaping now that passport backlogs have gone to six months or more at times.
If you can't get a passport or you have a true emergency disappearing act to do, then don't worry about it. Lots of people are traveling without passports these days. Remember that the government is denying passports to people who have back taxes or owe child support or ever held a Top Secret security clearance or have Interpol alerts (and the U.S. can now make up and issue an Interpol alert on you just for shits and giggles... and they can certainly make up a tax issue).
People in those categories form a significant percentage of the population! I suspect everyone will eventually be in a category where they can arbitrarily refuse you a passport.
In any case, there are a ton of people leaving who are in those categories and the government just laughs at them when they try to get a passport to leave. That means that there are many ways to leave without a passport.
I'm not going to tell you how here in a public post because that just gives a list of things for the government to attack and it will make it harder for you and others to escape.
After you get your passport (if you can), your next step is to get the clothing and equipment for your new life. You will need a backpack, a tie die t-shirt, blue jeans, a sleeping bag and good walking shoes. Shoes are the most important item. Get two pair.
You will now hitchhick to San Diego or take a greyhound bus if you still have the money and have no fear of "them" tracing your greyhound ticket.
Now, go to the beach and find the people who look like you now look. They might not be wearing tie die, but they may have dreadlocks or be wearing hand made jewelry made out of seeds or beads. They will often be selling something... maybe hand made jewelry. Most will be in their 20s or look like they are in their 20s. Others will look like they are in their 50s though. The fact is that they are all different ages. Their new lifestyle just makes them look young. That will happen to you too.
They are friendly. Talk to them. Tell them your back story and tell them you need to get to Mexico without papers. Ask them if they know anyone who can help you. Hang out in San Diego or on the beaches south of San Diego until you get to know a few people who want to cross without papers and have a guide. It might take a month or more. Or you might be able to find your group the first day. Many have. I did.
During that time, ask about how to survive, where to sleep, how to earn money, where and what to eat. Your new friends will show you the ropes. You won't believe how friendly your fellow exodus partners will be.
If you have money, just hide it and pretend you don't. You will be able to use it later when you rejoin the peer group you are more use to associating with.
Once you cross, get the heck out of Tijuana and get down to Ensenada. Tijuana isn't safe and it's just nasty. You can stay on the beaches in Ensendada as long as you would like. It is a tourist destination and you can make a good living just off selling to the tourists coming off the carnival cruise ships. Your new friends will show you how all that works. You will probably have an elder in your group who has gone back and forth across the border escorting and training escapees for years.
You will also see members of your group leave the group or new members join it from other locations other exciting places. One will eventually strike you as being pretty cool and you will leave with a group headed that direction.
That destination might be:
Cozumel
Roatan
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Panama
Peru
Columbia
Ecuador
Europe
India
Thailand
Pacific Isles
Caribbean Isles
The choices are numerous. They are all wonderful destinations that people pay thousands of dollars to visit on vacation.
You will learn to make and sell hand crafted jewelry and other items. You will learn how to give full body massages and teach yoga classes. Making cheese, soap and preparing organic foods will probably also be part of your income training. Don't worry. It's all temporary unless you fall in love with that lifestyle.
At your destination, you will start a real business with less than $500. Maybe it will be a spa for tourists or a bar or restaurant. It's up to you. Once you find your destination, you just ask the ex-pats there who are doing what you want to do how to get started. Almost all ex-pats are very friendly and helpful and will be happy to tell you how to get started doing what you really want to do with your new life.
You can also tap into the U.S. economy on the Internet. Just team up with someone with a PayPal account and start a site just like this one. Your experiences are worth a lot to others who want to know about how to live completely off the grid in an island paradise like Roatan Honduras. Write about it from an Internet cafe and charge for more information.
That's one of the ways I make my living.
You can get access to my other subversive posts for a one time fee of $10 here:
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I also personally answer any questions you leave in the comments on my private posts. I'll even personally give you the training you need starting right now to disappear without a trace when you are ready to join us in paradise.
I get to an Internet cafe at least once a week and promise to answer all of your questions. Also, over half of your contribution goes to help others who are escaping. That's just the way I roll.
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