Katie Canales

<p>About 7,000 Central Americans have fled their crime-ridden and violent homelands in the Northern Triangle for the US border in what has become <a id="22fde3d2-4561-3e57-ab0e-b048485556cb" href="https://www.thisisinsider.com/migrant-caravan-coming-to-us-border-history-size-2018-10?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest">  the largest caravan to date. </a></p>

<p>Migrants in the Honduran city of San Pedro Sula first formed the <a id="2b781acd-1b4b-3a7b-ad05-8c05bd3dc28d" href="https://www.thisisinsider.com/migrant-caravan-coming-to-us-border-history-size-2018-10?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest">  unplanned </a> northbound caravan on <a id="bba9077c-21cd-330b-a111-fe788211c658" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-migrant-caravan-moving-to-western-mexico-city-of-guadalajara-2018-11">  October 13. </a> Others have fled from El Salvador and Guatemala to also embark on the <a id="b581a7cf-ca4a-3bcf-a3a2-1dfd402a3939" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-migrant-caravan-moving-to-western-mexico-city-of-guadalajara-2018-11">  2,700-mile </a> journey toward the United States.</p>

<p>Conditions along the way are not great — <a id="6963ac24-79f2-301d-ae32-2f4a40e37223" href="https://www.thisisinsider.com/why-the-caravan-is-coming-to-the-us-border-2018-10?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest">  the heat is sweltering </a> , the days are long, and food and shelter are not always readily available.</p>

<p>To prevent the caravan from growing too large in size, Mexico has offered the opportunity to claim asylum there instead of the US. But most migrants have rejected the proposal.</p>

<p>"The United States is better," Honduran migrant Glenda Escobar told <a id="84aee435-511e-3673-a583-3e2ceee98196" href="https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-migrant-caravan">  Reuters. </a> "For everything."</p>

<p>Here's what it's like for migrants who have walked thousands of miles to seek asylum in the US.</p>

<h1> Multiple caravans of Central American migrants 7,000-strong have traveled thousands of miles through Guatemala and Mexico to seek asylum in the United States. </h1>

<p>Source: <a id="ed10116a-b10e-3085-affa-f9dda8fa1875" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-caravan-migrants-explore-options-after-tijuana-border-clash-2018-11">  Business Insider </a></p>

<h1> Mostly from Honduras and El Salvador, many caravan members fled their crime-ridden and poverty-stricken homelands in search of better lives. </h1>

<h1> The first wave of the caravan set out of San Pedro Sula, Honduras, northward toward the United States on October 13. </h1>

<p>Source: <a id="94cf47b2-e686-3591-a3c4-3ccfa1d13dfa" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/ap-migrant-caravan-moving-to-western-mexico-city-of-guadalajara-2018-11">  Business Insider </a></p>

<h1> Others joined from El Salvador. Hundreds of them had to cross through a border checkpoint located on a bridge that connects Guatemala to Mexico. </h1>

<p>Source: <a id="66696044-1529-30b9-ab9f-7028165e1726" href="https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/central-american-migrants-trek-north-to-seek-a-better-life">  Reuters </a></p>

<p>Source: <a id="b4031730-0f4c-304c-a18b-77ed3427ad23" href="https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2018%3Anewsml_RC17CDFE4CD0%3A635125570&amp;search=all%3Acaravan%20Ueslei%20Marcelino%20border">  Reuters </a></p>

<h1> Many of the migrants waited on this bridge for hours. </h1>

<h1> Some grew impatient — a group of frustrated migrant men tried to tear down the border gate, to no avail. </h1>

<p>Source: <a id="52625f62-b627-36b5-a1e9-977ed4ec8281" href="https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2018%3Anewsml_RC1354ED30F0%3A425614692&amp;search=all%3Acaravan%20carlos%20garcia%20rawlins%20border">  Reuters </a></p>

<h1> Migrants abandoned the bridge and climbed down into the Suchiate River below. </h1>

<p>Source: <a id="b8574280-ea5c-325c-a49d-64f8221f7f88" href="https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2018%3Anewsml_RC166B218F00%3A507208454&amp;search=all%3Acaravan%20Ueslei%20Marcelino%20border">  Reuters </a></p>

<h1> Others who followed ignored the bridge altogether and entered the river immediately to continue on their journey, since the border gates remained closed. </h1>

<p>Source: <a id="3d2c3449-05c4-3754-ac75-bd7c10300e16" href="https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2018%3Anewsml_RC12B86C8470%3A1744761285&amp;search=all%3Acaravan%20carlos%20garcia%20rawlins%20border">  Reuters </a></p>

<h1> Hondurans Luis Acosta and 5-year-old Angel Jesus were among them. </h1>

<p>Source: <a id="9218e902-7ad9-37f0-af4b-867beedf79bf" href="https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2018%3Anewsml_RC1862FA9120%3A422326555&amp;search=all%3Acaravan%20adrees%20latif%20border">  Reuters </a></p>

<h1> El Salvadoran migrant Daniel and his 1-year-old daughter Daniela did the same. </h1>

<p>Source: <a id="19351e80-7fe8-3a99-a2f4-b5b07a710e87" href="https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2018%3Anewsml_RC1BC2BF9EE0%3A919883929&amp;search=all%3Acaravan%20Ueslei%20Marcelino%20daniel">  Reuters </a></p>

<h1> Despite some migrants river crossing, the gate was eventually opened and migrants were allowed to cross into Mexico. </h1>

<h1> Shelters, organized by local charities and Good Samaritans, aided the migrants along their trek northward. </h1>

<p>Source: <a id="e1c0cc39-1c90-3322-aa69-8be39734dbb4" href="https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/a-day-in-the-life-of-the-migrant-caravan">  Reuters </a></p>

<h1> They bathed in fresh water streams when they could, like 55-year-old Anna-Maria Sadillon. </h1>

<p>Source: <a id="9e983364-1675-38f8-a2e9-6d54a9bdcf65" href="https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2018%3Anewsml_RC17C7DAACF0%3A725025055&amp;search=all%3Acaravan%20hannah%20mckay%20sadillon">  Reuters </a></p>

<h1> Most awoke in the early hours of the morning to make it to the next town before the weather got too warm. </h1>

<h1> If migrants were lucky, they would hitchhike on passing cars to the next town. </h1>

<h1> Thats not always safe though. Salvador and his family, pictured below, told activist Paola Mendoza that riding on the trucks can be dangerous, but he feels he has no choice. "I couldnt stay in the place where we were living," he said. "Gangs threatened to kill me and my kids. My only option was to go North.” </h1>

<p>Story courtesy of Paola Mendoza and Kisha Bari for <a id="8f264c42-86dd-3b65-abd6-f8d2fe273280" href="https://www.familiesbelongtogether.org/">  FamiliesBelongTogether.org </a> .</p>

<h1> Migrants and their children, like 7-year-old twins Justin Mauricio and Justin Duan, would rest on the side of the road when they grew tired. </h1>

<h1> They would lay their heads and rest wherever they safely could. </h1>

<p>Source: <a id="edb15d4d-f24e-3fda-ae13-82adf4e05130" href="http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/APTOPIX-Central-America-Migrant-Caravan/9567d5b5cffa48089afd49e1f0a0b2d3/152/1">  Associated Press </a></p>

<h1> Julio, aged 43, and pictured here with his one-year-old son Eddie, said they left their home in Guatemala to join the caravan of people after his wifes death five months ago. He said he feels he will have a better life in the US. </h1>

<p>Source: <a id="6fd5571a-aad9-3b43-a8e3-68c802cb5972" href="https://www.reutersconnect.com/all?id=tag%3Areuters.com%2C2018%3Anewsml_RC144C786DD0%3A265635141&amp;search=all%3Acaravan%20hannah%20mckay%20julio">  Reuters </a></p>

<h1> Another migrant, Nubia and her two children, told Mendoza that her neighborhood back home was violent, and shes traveling to the US so that her kids will have a better future. </h1>

<h1> Honduran migrant Glenda Escobar told Reuters that shes headed toward Los Angeles. "Its because, in my dreams, God told me thats where hes sending me," Escobar said. </h1>

<h1> Escobar and her two sons, 5-year-old Adonai and 8-year-old Denzel, joined the caravan on October 14 with only a plastic tarp, clothes, and soap. </h1>

<h1> The man who fathered Denzel and Adonai was abusive and forced her from her own home in Honduras, Escobar said. She said she packed fast when a neighbor informed her of the caravan traveling northward. </h1>

Powerful photos and stories from the caravan show migrants' harrowing journey to the US

<p>George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/george-hw-bush-dead-obituary-2018-4?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest" id="abd0c98c-1dbc-3728-abb5-c86d5ab6d51d">  died at the age of 94. </a></p>

<p>Bush leaves behind a legacy not just as a president, but as a loving father and husband throughout a political career that spanned decades.</p>

<p>"George H.W. Bush was a man of the highest character and the best dad a son or daughter could ask for," former President and son George W. Bush said in a statement.</p>

<p>Here's the life and legacy of George H.W. Bush in photos:</p>

<h1> George H.W. Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, in 1924. He was the second child out of five others. </h1>

<p>Source: <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2018/12/01/george-h-w-bush-key-moments/2165718002/" id="2257d58a-ef55-3db5-a153-240c67f8d4e4">  USA Today </a></p>

<h1> He grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. </h1>

<p>Source: <a href="http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Associated-Press-Domestic-News-United-States-GE-/37bee9409ae5da11af9f0014c2589dfb/3/0" id="d57e8368-f3f9-36b9-aa76-73b1f4eb8499">  AP </a></p>

<h1> On June 12, 1942, Bush enlisted in the US Navy as a pilot in World War II. </h1>

<h1> He became the nation's youngest commissioned pilot at the time at 18-years-old. </h1>

<p>Source: <a href="https://www.history.com/topics/us-presidents/george-bush" id="fa3c12be-6526-3e61-aff7-e8c2d2b9d331">  History </a></p>

<h1> During one of his 58 missions, his plane was shot down by Japanese forces. He remained in the aircraft and successfully hit his target before parachuting out. He was eventually rescued by a US submarine. </h1>

<p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/george-hw-bush-us-navy-rescued-after-plane-shot-down-2018-11?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest" id="bed4cda2-bd66-3bc1-aa1f-e37243395e4a">  Read more about how Bush was rescued here. </a></p>

<h1> He served in the Navy until 1945, the same year he married Barbara Pierce. </h1>

<h1> Barbara later told her granddaughter, Jenna Bush Hager, "I could hardly breathe, I thought he was so beautiful." </h1>

<p>Source: <a href="https://www.today.com/news/george-barbara-bush-look-back-their-love-story-t127137" id="d5dae522-2851-331d-a337-84b5f1ba5295">  Today </a></p>

<h1> Their marriage, the longest in presidential history, spanned 73 years until Barbara's death in April 2018. </h1>

<h1> The pair had six children, the first being George W. Bush, who would later become the 43rd president of the United States. Robin, Jeb, Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy followed. </h1>

<h1> Following his military service and marriage to Barbara, Bush studied economics at Yale University and was captain of the school's baseball team. </h1>

<h1> After graduating, Bush moved to Texas and worked in the oil industry before transitioning to politics in 1964. </h1>

<p>Source: <a href="https://www.texastribune.org/2018/11/30/former-president-george-hw-bush-dies-texas/" id="025a1a54-4cb4-31ba-ab96-61cdc88a5ae9">  Texas Tribune </a></p>

<h1> He eventually won a seat in Congress and became the first Houston Republican to serve in the US House. </h1>

<h1> President Richard Nixon appointed Bush as the US ambassador to the United Nations from 1971 to 1973. </h1>

<h1> Bush then served as the chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1974, the same year that Nixon's involvement in the Watergate scandal came to light. Bush issued a public request for Nixon to resign, which he did two days later. </h1>

<h1> President Gerald Ford replaced Nixon and appointed Bush as head of the US Liaison Office in the People's Republic of China. </h1>

<h1> He filled that position until 1976, when he became the director of the CIA. </h1>

<h1> Bush resigned from the CIA when Democrat Jimmy Carter became president in 1977. </h1>

<h1> In 1980, Bush ran for the Republican nomination in the presidential election. But he was overtaken by the widely-popular Ronald Reagan, who eventually chose him as his running mate. Bush would serve two terms as vice president under Reagan. </h1>

<h1> He would go on to become the 41st president of the United States in 1989. He chose Daniel Quayle, a senator from Indiana, as his running mate. </h1>

<h1> At the time, the US was in the midst of an economic recession and was affected by a hefty federal budget deficit, which stonewalled his efforts to advance domestic policies. </h1>

<h1> Foreign policy soon became a central focus in the Bush administration. </h1>

<h1> At the time of Bush's inauguration, the world was reeling from the Cold War and the Soviet Union was collapsing. </h1>

<h1> In 1991, Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START I), which limited strategic nuclear weapons in both countries and improved US-Soviet relations in the process. </h1>

<h1> In the previous year, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait. NATO countries were called upon for aid, and Bush responded with Operation Desert Storm. </h1>

Here is the life and legacy of former President George H.W. Bush in photos

<p>Swiss photographer <a href="http://rogereberhard.com/" id="e59cbae4-78c2-3834-af8c-5a2d32e2d1d4">  Roger Eberhard </a> doesn't usually stay in hotels like the popular Hilton chain when he travels.</p>

<p>But for his new project, " <a href="http://rogereberhard.com/standard/" id="821daa0e-2b85-3af9-a15f-b33c68a8093d">  Standard </a> ," he switched things up a bit — by staying in 32 different Hilton rooms across 32 countries.</p>

<p>In each of the 32 cities, he photographed his room from the exact same angle, as well as the view of the city from the hotel window.</p>

<p>Business Insider spoke to Roger Eberhard about his series.</p>

<p><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/standard-roger-eberhard-32-different-countries-photos-hotel-room-2018-10?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest#/#roger-eberhard-set-out-on-his-travels-specifically-for-this-project-1" id="0ed8f843-f286-3a7b-ab1a-15ea42c60ee5">  See the rest of the story at Business Insider </a></p>

<ul><li> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-best-boutique-hotels-luxury-resort-private-bali-portugal-greece-2018-11?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest">The top 14 boutique hotels in the world, from a romantic retreat in South Africa to a private villa in Thailand</a> </li><li> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/elevated-acre-secret-park-new-york-city-2018-11?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest">I visited a secluded park on top of a garage in downtown Manhattan, and it's clear why the hideaway is one of New York's best-kept secrets</a> </li><li> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/mexico-photos-harvey-stein-between-life-and-death-2018-11?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest">A photographer spent 18 years exploring Mexico and returned with stark photos documenting how different the country is from what Americans think</a> </li></ul>

<p><strong> SEE ALSO: <span id="613cd1de-a3c4-378c-a702-c5dbf62fbc65" itemtype="link" itemscope="itemscope">  This photographer captured shots of New Yorkers on their way to work for 10 years — and it shows how repetitive a commute can be </span> </strong></p>

Roger Eberhard set out on his travels specifically for this project.

A photographer stayed in Hilton hotels in 32 countries — and his photos expose what we really crave when we travel

<p>Photographing strangers is a necessity for many photographers. However, not many actively seek out complete strangers as subjects.</p>

<p>As a personal project, the duo behind LA-based photography studio <a id="de9cc2a2-9f19-3e82-a03e-6dd2912f1557" href="https://kremerjohnson.com/">  Kremer Johnson </a> sent an ad into the Craigslist universe asking for " <a id="e1a00dac-84a9-313a-aa08-0cb2561ef409" href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/56880909/Craigslist-Encounters">  interesting people to photograph </a> "for $20 an hour in return.</p>

<p>They initially wanted to photograph just one subject.</p>

<p>The resulting images, compiled into a photo series dubbed " <a id="66f89229-5c82-3825-a059-f210a226afbc" href="https://www.behance.net/gallery/56880909/Craigslist-Encounters">  Craigslist Encounters </a> ," ended up featuring 65 complete strangers in intimate and unique settings.</p>

<p>Business Insider spoke to Neil Kremer about the series. Take a look at the portraits.</p>

<p><a id="d9aea02a-1e09-31c8-afe6-b3974d15afa2" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/craigslist-encounters-photographer-2018-10?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest#/#photographers-neil-kremer-and-cory-johnson-originally-set-out-to-photograph-just-one-subject-through-their-craigslist-ad-1">  See the rest of the story at Business Insider </a></p>

<ul><li> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/luxury-chalet-glacier-alaska-denali-national-park-2018-11?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest">For $25,000 a night, you can rent a luxury chalet that sits on top of a glacier in a remote part of Alaska</a> </li><li> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/dandelyan-best-bar-in-the-world-most-surprising-thing-2018-11?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest">I drank at the best bar in the world, and I was surprised by one thing</a> </li><li> <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/standard-roger-eberhard-32-different-countries-photos-hotel-room-2018-10?utm_source=intl&amp;utm_medium=ingest">A photographer stayed in Hilton hotels in 32 countries — and photos of his hotel rooms show how, even when we travel, we crave predictability</a> </li></ul>

Photographers Neil Kremer and Cory Johnson originally set out to photograph just one subject through their Craigslist ad.

Two photographers captured photos of complete strangers they met on Craigslist — and the photos are hauntingly beautiful

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Powerful photos and stories from the caravan show migrants' harrowing journey to the US

Here is the life and legacy of former President George H.W. Bush in photos

A photographer stayed in Hilton hotels in 32 countries — and his photos expose what we really crave when we travel

Two photographers captured photos of complete strangers they met on Craigslist — and the photos are hauntingly beautiful