We continued down Highway 95, driving through more desert, more heat (temperatures around 100 today), and into Yuma, Arizona, near the Mexican border. This caps an almost 1,400 mile ‘Hard Ride of 95’ journey for us, and it was now time to head east on our last leg of this tour… In Gila Bend, Arizona later today, I met Chris Kouach. Kouach is from Stockton, California, and a quite active member of the Green Party. He, his wife and their young son had just been visiting San Luis, Arizona — the southern most point on Highway 95, about 20 miles south of Yuma. (Kouach’s wife’s parents live there.) Chris said he has just bought some land in San Luis — to build a library on. Kouach said he hadn’t traveled much in his life, and when he saw the poverty in San Luis (many new immigrants), he was quite moved, and wanted to help. So to help supplement education for new immigrants there, Kouach believed an additional library for the town would help tremendously. And with a Green Party twist, Chris said some of the library shelves will include sections on: the environment; organic farming; small, appropriate technologies…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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