Journey for Justice Dec 6th, Day 6 Del Rio to Big Bend

We get to Big Bend National Park tonight just before dark so are able to soak up the beauty of this stark and amazing place. We have left the dark, gruesome line of border wall behind, thank the goddesses, as we venture a little ways up a path where we can view a lot of the park. But the sun sets before we go too far so we head down to our campsite, so we vow to get up with the sun in the morning so we can explore before the rest of the caravan arrives.

Although no camera can capture the stunning beauty of this place, here's an attempt to share some of it with you until you get a chance to visit here yourself.

Plus the full moon behind clouds!

Journey for Justice Dec 6th, Day 6 Del Rio to Marathan to Big Bend

We leave Del Rio and head to Marathon where the caravan splits for the night. The folks that are not camping are hoteling it in Marathon or close by. Marina and I are heading to the incomparable Big Bend National Park to spend the night and wait for the rest of the caravan to join us tomorrow morning at Boquillas Crossing.

Journey For Justice Dec 6th, Day 6 Del Rio

There are just no words that can begin to touch the depth of depravity & violence being strung out here along the once beautiful & vibrant Rio Grande Valley - you see glimpses of that beauty & weep.

Look to the left of the road & see the barbed wire wall.

It is double rowed & sharper than the sharpest knife - doubled in case someone happens to near impossible make it over one edge, they are guaranteed to then get sliced on the next. Plus you cannot toss your backpack or bag of food over two of these cruel rows.

As we drive down this road encased on one side by the Rio Grande and by barbed wire fencing on the other, an older white man comes out of his home, spreads his legs, flaunting gun at his hip as one hand rests above it ready to shoot, the other holds a cell phone apparently filming our caravan.

By the time we've advanced about 6 miles, stopped, turned around, we pass two truckloads of white male armed vigilanties approaching, holding their guns and coldly staring at us - not to mention border patrol tracking our every move.

But are these vigilanties the ones that chase down and eliminate human beings or are they the ones that are buying the drugs and bodies of refugees before border patrol can pick them up and incarcerate them?

Journey For Justice December 6th, Day 6 Del Rio

We are unable to visit the shelter in Acuña, across from Del Rio, because it has been moved from close to the border boundary to at least 25 minutes south into Mexico. And the other shelter is closed.

Also the humanitarian aid group we were going to meet with knows that a couple of our people have come down with covid and they do not want to risk being around us, for them and for the vulerable population they are assisting. So we are going to drive along the border instead