:04:02
His brother Roberto really died
of a ruptured appendix.
:04:07
In those days, just after the
revolution, times were hard
:04:10
and my dad's in-laws couldn't
afford to feed an extra mouth.
:04:13
So my father had to leave.
:04:16
Now the only living relative
my father knew about
:04:19
lived in a village called Nuestra
Señora Reina de Los Angeles.
:04:24
And he figured he could walk
there in a day or two.
:04:27
Are you talking about Los Angeles,
Jalisco?
:04:31
Or do you mean Los Angeles,
Colima?
:04:34
I mean Los Angeles
in California.
:04:39
That's really far.
It's not even here in Mexico.
:04:44
That's another country.
:04:46
Another country?
:04:48
What does that mean,
another country?
:04:51
Another country is...
another country!
:04:54
It's on the other side
of the world.
:04:56
The other side of the world.
:04:58
My father thought about it.
:05:01
Good God, he thought, it might
take 2 weeks to walk there.
:05:06
We can take you part
of the way.
:05:08
Thank you.
:05:10
Go on, get in back.
Watch yourself.
:05:20
It took him over a year to reach
the "other side of the world".
:05:26
He walked most of the way.
:05:28
And we kids, well, we heard
of that journey many times.
:05:32
He was attacked by ten bandits
in Sonora...
:05:35
and had to beat them off
with a cactus branch.
:05:38
He rode the back of
a snorting mountain lion.
:05:44
But finally, he reached
:05:46
El Pueblo Nuestra Señora Reina
de Los Angeles.
:05:51
The one in California.
:05:54
The border? Well, in those days
it was just a line in the dirt.