Wounds in the Sand:
The Arizona-Sonora Border Region
Alternative Spring Break 2002

ITINERARY
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Saturday, March 23rd
10pm - Watched Traffic and ordered pizza.

Sunday, March 24th
9:00am - Rented Mini-van at Enterprise, gathered and loaded cars at Casa Zapata
10:00am- Left Stanford
4:00pm - Picked up Alicia in LA and swapped Hana's car for the Green Mafioso Towncar rented from Budget
6:00pm - Stopped to eat Fast Food.
7:00pm - Picked up Lorena in Indio, CA at an obscure exit of I-10.

Monday, March 25 - BorderLinks
2:00am - Arrived in Tucson, BorderLinks house.
Overnight at Tucson, Borderlinks
Breakfast
8:00am - Orientation
9:00am - Border history talk with Raquel Rubio Goldsmith, U of A Professor
10:00am - Departed for Nogales, AZ
11:00am - Border Patrol visit with Andy Adame
Crossed into Mexico
1:00pm - Lunch in Colonia Flores Magon
2:30pm - "Tourist" time in downtown Nogales, visited tourist shops, the border wall, and the tunnels where homeless children used to gather and where migrants now often cross to the U.S.
3:30pm - Driving tour of Colonia Kennedy, the wealthiest neighborhood of the city.
4:00pm Rest time.
6:00pm - Migrant dinner at the Presbyterian Church
Overnight in Colonia Guadalajara

Tuesday, March 26 - BorderLinks
Breakfast with host families
10:00am - Maquila visit to Otis conducted by Manager Antonio Valencia
12:00pm - Lunch in Colonia Guadalajara.
2:00pm - Talked to Cecilia at Casa Misericordia about her work with tunnel kids, the sanctuary movement and Borderlinks.
3:30pm - Group Reflection
4:00pm - Bought Pan dulce for our host families.
5:00pm - Dinner and Sonora-style party in Colonia Guadalajara
9:00pm - Left for Tucson
Overnight in Tucson, Borderlinks

Wednesday, March 27 - Ricardo Elford
Breakfast
9:00am - Left BorderLinks
10:30am -Met Father R. Elford at Southside Church
11:00am - Talked with Rev. John Fife of Southside Presbyterian Church about the Sanctuary movement, Neo-liberal Globalization and its flaws, and liberation theology among other issues.
1:00pm - Lunch at El Gorrion Mexican Restaurant.
2:00pm - Talked with Amy Shubitz Director of the Center for the Prevention and Resolution of Violence
3:00pm - Visited San Javier Mission on the Tohono O'odham Reservation.
6:00pm - Settled into El Rincon Church
7:00pm - Met Father Ricardo at his home.
8:00pm - Ate Indian Tacos at the Old Pascua Yaqui Community and observed the Yaqui Lenten Ceremony.
11:00pm - Made a Grocery store trip. Prepared lunches and Health Kits for next day.
Overnight at El Rincon church

Thursday, March 28th - Humane Borders with Robin and Sue Hoover
8:00am - Left First Christian Church parking lot.
9:15am - Arrived in Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge (BANWR) to service three water stations and spoke with Sue and Robin.
11:00ish - Went to the BANWR headquarters to eat lunch and have a Group Reflection.
1:00pm - Migrant Camp clean-up. Proceeded to the east creek, or other area of the park where accumulations of migrant trash have occurred. Gave our Health Kits to Sue.
4:00pm - Returned to Tucson.
5:00pm - Dinner at El Minuto (menu moderately priced at $7-$10).
6-7:00pm - Assembled for Thursday night vigil.
Overnight at El Rincon Church

Friday, March 29th Stations of the Cross
9:00am - Breakfast
10:00am - Met Father R. Elford at his home.
11:00am - Left for University of Arizona Native American Art Exhibition
noonish - Lunch.
2:00pm - Met Sue Gallegos and headed to Douglas, AZ to participate in the cross-border Stations of the Cross ceremony
9-10:00pm - return to El Rincon Church
Overnight at El Rincon church

Saturday, March 30th
Breakfast.
Pay El Rincon Church back for letting us stay by helping to clean, run simple errands, etc.
Lunch. We pay for our own food.
Prepare to return. Buy some food for the trip back.
1:00pm - Leave Tucson

Sunday, March 31st
Droped off Amber in Monterrey
Arrive at Stanford at 9am or so.
2:00pm- Return Rental Cars and pay for Rental