He got on a freighter in Veracruz, Mexico, to ride to Houston in preparation for his adaptation of Katherine Anne Porter's "Ship of Fools".
There, Tom convinces Michael to work for Ben, and instructs him to get a job as a janitor on board a freighter that is about to set sail from Fiji.
"There is no way you'll get a three-year-old aboard," we were flatly told by a New Zealand freighter agent, part of a little-known cadre of people who specialize in booking passage aboard cargo ships.
Having thus proved his ability to get on and off a freighter at a heavily secured port without drawing scrutiny, prosecutors said, the man was then trusted by drug lords in Panama to pick up a more substantial prize: several dozen one-kilogram packages of Colombian cocaine.
Others have sent a freighter packed with people on autopilot towards the shore.
What the 18 Chinese men got was a cargo container aboard a freighter from Hong Kong to Seattle, with flashlights, minimal food and buckets for toilets.
By Calvin Kentfield The New Yorker, February 9 , 1957P. 30 Mr. Solly, junior officer of a freighter, was only 27, but had gotten his nickname from Solomon because his calm judgment had prevented arguments from coming to blows.
A freighter arrived to take the survivors home.
They say the closest you can get by passenger-carrying freighter is various ports in Italy, from where they suggested you could make your way to Greece by train or ferry.
Once, when he was 16, he & 2 friends had stowed away on a freighter bound for America, but they were discovered 6 days into the crossing & never even got off the boat.
