- [Narrator] Barry,
we're here
under Vegas, really.
In the tunnels under Vegas.
You're homeless, tell me about it.
- Came out here
to kill a day before I went back to my home state
and take care of a couple of things.
Had a backpack stolen with my money,
some family recipes and got stranded here.
I've been here
two months or so.
- [Narrator] Where's home?
- _ Michigan.
- [Narrator] How do you survive down here?
What's it like, what's a day like?
- Let me see.
Get up,
since I got my food stamps I don't dumpster dive that much.
That's how I was getting food for awhile,
digging through dumpsters.
You'd be surprised and what you'd find.
- [Narrator] The good stuff's at the bottom.
I always used to tell people.
- One time I found
a fresh bag of bagels, fresh loaf of bread,
and one of those containers of
the yogurt or the cottage cheese with the fruit on the side.
Still ice cold.
- [Narrator] Now these are storm drains.
Now it doesn't rain here much,
but what happens when it rains?
- Since I've haven't been here through a rain I can't say.
But from what I've been told it gets up to,
you look at the wall behind you
you see the black mark, gets up to about there
is where the water level gets usually.
But sometimes it gets up a little higher than that
by what I've been told.
- [Narrator] What do people do?
- Move their bed up like this
or like the other camps.
- [Narrator] That's why you have your bed built up,
that makes sense.
- That way the water can come under it
without washing the stuff away.
- [Narrator] This is no way to live.
What do you do when you get outta here?
- When I leave here,
my normal days,
I go to the casinos where it's cooler.
Stop by _ and use their restroom.
Get water there.
Go out to Hope of Southern Nevada once a week.
Go around town.
I can come back here where it's cooler.
- [Narrator] Is there any support services?
Do people come down here?
- Hope of Southern Nevada does.
They've been down three times since I've been here.
I take that back, twice.
They're the only ones that usually
that I know of that's been down here.
But a couple other like Catholic charities I think.
By what one of the other guys was telling me
comes down like Christmas time, that's about it.
- [Narrator] What's your future like?
- If I can get the money, go to culinary arts school
or get into truck driving.
Til I can get the money, that's on hold.
- [Narrator] Now culinary arts school,
you said you had some recipes that you lost or something.
- Yeah those recipes were from my
both sides of my dad's family.
Let's see two of them were my great
great-grandfather's.
A couple others were my great-grandmother's.
- [Narrator] If you had three wishes what would they be?
- Money, go back in time,
redo some stuff.
And do some stuff differently.
And three more wishes.
- [Narrator] Thank you very much for talking with me.
- No problem.