Evaristo Salas Jr.

Everything that I thought about, it was just based on hope, basically.

And I would always tell them, like I said, I would always tell my dad all the time, you know, when I get out, I'm going to do this.

My fiance won't get out, we're going to do this.

I told her, I told her, the next time you're going to see me, I'm going to be flying in to the Netherlands in person, you know what I mean?

So that's actually going to happen on the 17th.

And so the weird thing is, it's exactly a year, the 17th of August is exactly a year that I've been out.

And that's the day that I'm going to fly into the Netherlands.

And even my family, they're kind of just, they rarely leave that area.

It's all local.

Another country is something as far as that, you know, to them, it's just so foreign.

So they're just looking at me like, you know, here I have been.

I've been out, I've been out, I've been out, you know, in the free world my entire life and I've never, never left.

And then here you are six, seven months and you're already going out of the city.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And it's just like, it's such a shock to them, you know, and then,

I think also they're just shocked at seeing kind of how driven I am and how I didn't waste any time when I got out.

And at first, they were a little kind of worried about that.

They think that I was doing too much.

What they didn't realize is because they hadn't seen me every single day like in prison.