Summary

The train to Juárez arrives later in the afternoon and Jaime becomes very nervous about falling off the train and being injured or killed. He has heard so many horror stories that he knows the dangers fully. When the train arrives, they begin sprinting alongside it, and Jaime reaches out for the low rungs on a ladder. He pulls himself up with great effort before another boy leaned over to help him. Jaime lays flat on top of the train car, and all of the children make it aboard.

The train passes through villages and farms and Jaime remembers what Pancho, the truck driver, told him about passing through the mountains. He told him that there will be so many mountains on the way, but if he thought of them all as the mountains from his home village, he would never feel...