Debriefing

We Can't Stop Talking About the Trip!

Day 7: Saturday, February 16th
After saying goodbye to the YWAM'ers



7:10PM  Katrina and I are sitting here in San Diego, in an open courtyard under the stars. We're in a sort of shopping complex, the stores joined in a series of golden-lit courtyards like this one. There's a  a grocery store here, where she and I bought our supper, and a Five Guys restaurant, where the others are ordering. We're waiting for them at a table just outside, shadowed by a wide red umbrella. Surf music is playing. ...Here come the others, bringing a couple of cartons of 5 Guys peanuts with them. Now that they're here, we start an impromptu debriefing session on everything we just experienced this passed week...

Back Across the Border

The Story Isn't Over Yet!

 



Group photo before leaving the mission

Migrant labourers working in the fields we passed

Fish tacos bought while in Ensenada this morning

2:17 PM: We're now in the van eating huge bags of deep-fried, cinnamony churros. It's all part of crossing the border: we're sitting in an enormous line-up of cars, surrounded on every side as though in an amicable traffic jam, while local vendors weave in and out of the rows selling their wares. Some man food stands, while others walk around carrying every sort of merchandise imaginable ranging from plastic ukuleles to giant portrayals of the last supper. You never know what's going to float past the window next! Even from where I'm watching from the backseat, I can hear the smile in the voices of Barry, our team leader,  and his co-pilot as they hand out sandwiches, candy, donuts and New Testaments to the peddlers.







Market area near the border

We waited 2 hours and 40 minutes in line to cross!