Carolina Peinado was riding in a passenger van headed to Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport when her 4-year-old daughter, Salome, suddenly rested her head on her mother’s lap.
In an instant, the girl was fast asleep. It had been a long and exhausting journey from Colombia to the United States, and it wasn’t over yet.
Peinado peered out the van window, one hand on her sleeping daughter’s shoulder, and marveled at the vast number of lanes on the Loop 202 freeway in Arizona.
“The highways are really big,” Peinado said. “And the bridges too. Much bigger than my country.”
