19th FEBRUARY - TREKFORCE
Friendly Taxi-Mike - the driver who took us out to Black Rock a week or so ago, and picked oranges for us on the way - drove us over to Santa Elena today to the Trekforce field-base. After the last few days of thinking that everybody we met looked like a criminal or an undercover agent, it was good to see an ordinary, down-to-earth, friendly face. Good, too, to see people cooling themselves in the Macal River, kids splashing about, fishing, swimming, washing clothes.
We drove down over the wooden Bradley Bridge, then up the other side, cutting through the streets of Santa Elena to the walled football pitch at the end of which stood the Trekforce fieldbase....