Rob Jenner (who clearly has too much time on his hands and needs a hobby) created this artwork in response to the article below: Rainey as Indiana Jones himself.
The following article appeared this week in Independent News journal in Pensacola.
Local Pensacola lawyer Rainey Booth won a spot to compete in an around-the-world scavenger hunt that will take him and his team partner, Zoe Littlepage, to 13 countries on 4 continents in 23 days.
GreatEscape2008: The Global Scavenger Hunt is not just all fun. It's all to raise more than $1 million for charity, such as Noble Peace Prize-winning Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF and charities that provide micro-financing loans to the poorest villages in the world.
The competition for the prize of being crowned the Worlds Greatest Traveler kicks off in April and once it starts at each destination, teams receive sealed envelopes containing a list of scavenger challenges, travel riddles, cultural clues and cryptic passages, which will lead them to lost cities, sacred sites, cultural festivals, bustling bazaars, ancient ruins, exotic eateries and eventually to prizes.
The competition for the prize of being crowned the Worlds Greatest Traveler kicks off in April and once it starts at each destination, teams receive sealed envelopes containing a list of scavenger challenges, travel riddles, cultural clues and cryptic passages, which will lead them to lost cities, sacred sites, cultural festivals, bustling bazaars, ancient ruins, exotic eateries and eventually to prizes.
By the time Booth returns to Pensacola he will have flown, walked, bicycled, boated and ridden camels, elephants, ox-carts, feluccas, dhows and rickshaws over a million miles! This is why Outside magazine has called the Global Scavenger Hunt..."one of the most amazing trips in the world!"
Some of the challenges that Booth may face:
***He may be asked to ride a four-legged beast around one of the Seven Wonders of the World wearing a traditional Arab headdress purchased in Khan al-Khalili. (Hell have to shop in Cairos ancient Grand Bazaar before riding a camel at the Pyramids).
***At a World Heritage Site with over 50 temples, he may visit the one where rodents roam freely and will have to explain why? (In Kathmandu, the sacred Hiranya Varna Mahabihar houses the living guardian of Vishnu and is guarded by holy rodents).
***He may sing Feelings at a Ginza district karaoke bar with at least four other local patrons: tuning up his pipes with new friends in glitzy Tokyo!)
***In the City of Waters, he may be required to partake in a traditional Turkish delight and take a bath in a public bathhouse in Turkey.
***He may be asked to ride a four-legged beast around one of the Seven Wonders of the World wearing a traditional Arab headdress purchased in Khan al-Khalili. (Hell have to shop in Cairos ancient Grand Bazaar before riding a camel at the Pyramids).
***At a World Heritage Site with over 50 temples, he may visit the one where rodents roam freely and will have to explain why? (In Kathmandu, the sacred Hiranya Varna Mahabihar houses the living guardian of Vishnu and is guarded by holy rodents).
***He may sing Feelings at a Ginza district karaoke bar with at least four other local patrons: tuning up his pipes with new friends in glitzy Tokyo!)
***In the City of Waters, he may be required to partake in a traditional Turkish delight and take a bath in a public bathhouse in Turkey.
The competition is the brainchild of William D. Chalmers, international travel speaker, author of the travel book A Blind Date With The World and the previous winner of an around-the-world race. As Chalmers puts it, "this competition emphasizes the Indiana Jones spirit of adventure coupled with total cultural immersion as the Teams are required to use their wits and resourcefulness at every turn."
