Traversing Mexico

October 29, 2018 (92 words)

The caravan of men, women, and children currently walking from Guatemala to Texas hoping to find a better life at the end of their long march, prompts the following question:

How bad would things have to be here in the western suburbs of Philadelphia, where I have always lived, for me to light out on foot one morning for say, Rapid City, South Dakota – the equivalent to traversing all of Mexico – in search of a brighter future?

Robert J. Cavanaugh, Jr.
October 29, 2018