“Much more glaring to me was the entire 2,000 mile horse ride from Belize across Mexico to northern New Mexico.”
2,000 miles HORSE ride? That would take 90 days IF the horse made it. Throwing a shoe or snapping a tendon is a real possibility. If I can get 20 miles a day on a horse day after day, much less one loaded with food and gear for such a long trip, it would be a motorized vehicle! When did the horse get a chance to eat??
The horse foraged in handy woods when they stopped to sleep every night. Crossing Mexico. I wonder if Rawles bothered to drive that trip from Belize to NM, or if he just winged it? The horse and rider even walked right through Tampico, pre-crunch population a million, without any more than some angry stares from criminal types. A ton of meat on the hoof, in a land of rampant starvation, and they were never sniped. It was all just very silly.