The Challenge

The theory
Some time ago, Edgar and I were engaged in a conversation about the theory, "Six Degrees of Separation."
Six degrees of separation is the concept that, if a person is one step away from each person they know and two steps away from each person who is known by one of the people they know, then everyone is an average of six "steps" away from each person on earth. We were quite fascinated by this idea and we decided to challenge both, the theory and each other.

The game
To make the challenge interesting, we thought up a game where we each try to reach a person, living in a major city of a particular country. We agreed that the country had to be at least 2,500 kilometers away from where either of us live and where neither family nor friends of us reside or have resided in the past. It also had to be a country that neither of us had ever visited before. Interestingly enough, we had quite a hard time finding a country that wouldn't be to easy to reach, but in the end we agreed on Ethiopia with its second largest city, Dire Dawa.

Our goal was born, getting in touch with someone from Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, within six steps. Both of us will try to contact a person from Dire Dawa, using as few steps as possible, with some limitations and restrictions we've put in place to keep it interesting and to level the playing field.