Driving search for distressed humans - to be continued...

We meet in a huge parking lot at a recreation center to start our journey though the desert and along the wall in order to see if we can find any refugees in distress.

Not only is the terrain so very unforgiving here but people have to travel miles north before they can connect with the nearest inhabitants. Often the first u.s.ofa. people they meet will not help them at all or might even shoot them - although not providing water for people is a death sentence and a very painful death as well.

Before we head out, we check the bags that are made up: there should be water, a little bag of non-perishable food, a drinking straw (I forget the name of it but it doesn't really purify the desert water holes but it takes out the bacteria), clean socks, a phone charger battery (we used these in Yuma also) - I think that's it.

There are four of us - three tasked with searching the land on either side of the vehicle, one with driving. Two of us are newbies, the other two experienced.

The dark brown line on the left of this picture is the fuckin 'wall'