Scarborough Seniors Write Anthology 2017

*** Outside the theatre, out of the airconditioning and into the hot humid air, my mind started to focus on the show we had just watched, The Thin Yellow Line. I saw those men spraying that yellow line on the highway at Rumorosa where the road starts to climb off the desert floor to go over the top of Sierra de San Pedro Martir in Baja California before heading to the village of Tecate. That was my route for a steak dinner and a Tecate cerveza crossing that yellow line on the map that is the frontier between Mexico and the United States. It’s where guns go south and people and drugs come north in through the Arizona desert. *** I am Iago travelling with Ricky Rabbit and Maureen and a small load of assault AK 47’s.

The car is an Oldsmobile with a small trailer with a military looking green tarp cover to protect the cargo. We crossed that thin yellow line known as the frontier between Arizona and Sinora state.

Here is the border crossing of Nogales. A few 136