Giddy up because this episode is one hell of a ride! Its seems like every day on the news we hear numbers like 5000 migrants crossed the southern U.S. Border today and x number of migrants did x or y and applied for asylum. For many of us, living our comfortable lives as American citizens, these are just statistics that baffle us, but in reality, each one of these numbers is attached to a life, a story, a dream, for a better life. Cue my friend Orbin Guerra. Orbin grew up dirt poor in a small village in Honduras, and dreamed of a better life for his 5 siblings and single mother. One day, at 19, he got the courage to take the few things he had and his hopes and dreams, stuff them into a backpack and head north to try to make it in the great land of freedom and opportunity. What unfolds for him is an unbelievable journey that nearly kills him, all in a desperate attempt to build a new life for himself and his family back home. Long rides on top of trains through tropical jungles, cartels, border patrol, tunnels, all sorts of crazy things face Orbin as he desperately tries to make it to the U.S.  This episode is part 1 of a 2 part series. Part 1 chronicles his journey to get to the U.S. and part 2 details his efforts to find work, a wife, and to live the dream he had always hoped for but never knew was possible.

Part 2 comes out next week!

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