DAY 10 - Travel

Thursday, May 1st, 2008

I caught the bus to Albuquerque, NM in the afternoon, and was on it the entire day until my sister Jessica picked me up at 4:00am the next day. That was about a 13 hour bus ride. Man, I'm getting tired of them.

I met a guy who worked as a border patrol cop while I was on the bus, and I had an interesting conversation with him. I guess a lot more people than I thought die trying to cross the border. Most of them think that it's only a few miles to the nearest town, but they end up dying from the heat, because sometimes the next town is 50 miles away. He also said that the drug cartels are what make things so bad on the border, so many druglords trying to get their shipment into the U.S.

That's pretty much it for that day, nothing exciting.