Our neighbor wanted to go for a 4 wheeling ride. His friends aren't down yet so he is was looking for something to do and doesn't like to ride alone. We decided to to go out on the Barry Goldwater Range south of us. We thought it would be fun to see if we could get all the way to the border. The road we took is only open to the public that have gone online and gotten a permit. It's free and you have to watch a safety video but that's all there is to getting one. The road wasn't in too bad a shape. We were on it last February and it was so rough we didn't get far.
This trip we were able to go all the way down close to the border. We couldn't get to the wall itself because they had the area blocked off . They are working on it redoing the old wall. There were lots of big trucks rolling by carrying rock, hauling big metal pylons, cement trucks, etc. Its hard to believe that they ran the wall across a mountain side. It is fifteen or twenty feet high and this part of the wall is in a very remote part of the desert. We rode thirty-five miles south to get there and only saw one border patrol but they had two trucks positioned at different places with all kinds of surveillance equipment. So they are watching.
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