On Monday, we planned to leave Yuma and head up to the Salton Sea where it was supposed to be a bit cooler. It was an easy drive that took about 2 1/2 hours. The most interesting parts were passing the Mexican border areas - Los Algodones and Calexico. There were some signs along the highway with warnings that basically meant to watch for illegals, and that the border patrol was watching the area. Even at the California agricultural inspection station, there were plenty of cop cars there, the workers all were wearing cammo,  and they even had a sniffer German Shepherd. Driving that long stretch of Interstate 8 that parallels the border just brings to mind how utterly stupid Trump's idea of building a border wall is. That border along there is LOOONNNGGG! It would take an ENORMOUS amount of materials to build a walll that long. And who would he get to build that big thing? Mexicans? And sheesh! That portion of the border is just a small portion of the entire border! And it's flat there. How much more difficult to build a border wall in the mountainous areas?? That man is either really, really stupid, or he's just pandering to his base when he keeps calling for that wall. How well did the wall work for Hadrian? How well did the Great Wall of China work? Sigh. What have we come to as a nation? Oh well. I digress. Too much caffeine this morning!