12/13/2022 Ride to the WALL

What a fun day with beautiful scenery, great company, and a really good look at what exactly is at the southern border in the middle of the desert in the middle of nowhere. Where the old border is still standing (well kind of) and the new border while impressive is definitely not secure because of the gaping hole at the end. It's interesting how in the areas of crossing they have elaborate checkpoints and make people think it is actually secure. Let me assure you it's not. I stood right there and looked at it.

Its surreal standing right there next to this incredibly massive structure.
In case you can't tell I couldn't get enough pictures.

 Had to do a little creeping and crawling to get there and we stopped along the way to see the things we wanted to see.

More creepin' and crawlin'

 

and more

and some more

                                            and ok a lot more short ones

                                            Just driving along

                                            Tee-Pee rock

                                            More Tee-Pee rock

                                            Petroglyphics? Hahaha, looks like a car someone drew.

                                            Not sure what this one is, probably something not nice.

                                            All of the terrain over here looks like it's straight out of a Western movie.

                                                                  The coke ovens. 

Ok so I had to go look these up because I had never heard of them, but they were used to heat coal, or oil in the absence of air to create a destructive distillation process. Reference  Coke (fuel) - Wikipedia

                                            Old wall and the only border. NO new wall next to this either. 

                                            Who's side are you on anyway?

                                            Oooops, wrong side.

                                            More on the wrong side

                                            Ooooh, and look'it how easy it is to get through there!

                                            The open fence line

                                            Looking in

                                            On the right 

                                            One last look at that secure wall there.

                                            The new wall

                                            So, although this looks impressive, it is still wide open to the left of the picture where they had to stop building so it never got over the next little mountain and there is quite a break in the wall there too because they were preparing to cut up through the hill like the other end of it. They had to stop so it's wide open too.

                                            Helen and Steve making sure we all stay on track and don't get lost along the way

                                            Ok crazy camera moment right there. Hahaha, almost need drunk glasses to                                             watch that one.