(14.0K) | Joshua Dautoff, St. Petersburg Times | Halfway There | Delia and Ceci Tovar enter the United States , exhausted, hot and split off from their friends. They became separated when they walked across the bridge crossing the Rio Grande at Laredo . Another 2,000-mile bus trip awaits them. |
| "There's no substitute for being there, for real-time observations," Anne Hull's editor at the St. Petersburg Times told her before Hull set out on what would become a four-month reporting assignment. Barbara Ferry went into the villages of northern New Mexico for The New Mexican to see the ravages of a drug epidemic. |