Wanderers in Wonder

Hachita (Hatchet) Mountains of Southwestern NM. Miners came for gold and silver in 1875. By 1900 there were 300 people living and working in the village of Hachita.

St. Catherine of Siena church in Hachita.

The mines eventually played out and Hachita was no more.

‘Off the Gridders’ have slowly begun to re-occupy Hachita. They have brought their sense of humor with them.

I now know where the Major League Baseball grounds crews spend the off-season. Rather than dragging infields during the seventh inning stretch, they drag lonely and desolate dirt roads in border country for La Migra, the Border Patrol.

Tomorrow a La Migra patrol truck will drive the same road looking for footprints of Jose y Maria.

If they can’t find Jose y Maria through the use of their dragline operations, La Migra employs multi-million dollar blimps (upper right) to track Jose y Maria.

It is illegal to assist Jose y Maria with food or water. Tragically many, who are only searching for a better life, die during their quest. This cross commemorates the many migrant deaths in these harsh Southwestern deserts.

Peace…Wanderers in Wonder.

NOTE: According to the DEA the vast majority of illegal drugs come into the U.S. at regular border crossings and ports not on the backs of Jose y Maria risking their lives crossing these desert environs.