Stan Burstenter, who led the latest expedition, wasn’t in much of a talking mood when reporters arrived at his home to discuss the expedition’s findings.

This photo was taken as the expedition made plans to return to Gila Bend. According to exhibition participants, an important meeting was taking place inside the trailer when this photo was taken.

Town folk believe ‘moral high ground’ is a physical place and have
been searching for it for a decade.

A group that set out from this dusty settlement located about 75 miles southwest of Phoenix on a town-funded expedition to find the “moral high ground,” once again returned unsuccessful, much to the dismay of town folk.

The people of the town have been searching for the moral high ground as a physical location for most of the last decade, ignoring a minority of residents who continually attempt to explain the idea of the moral high ground as the idiom that it actually is.

The seeming complexity of the issue got even more difficult for residents when a local politician said that occasionally one could be on the moral high ground without realizing it.

“The moral high ground is a tough place to find, and I think sometimes if you’re on it, you might not realize it. We were on so, so many hills in this state, but in no case did we see anything saying we were on the moral high ground,” one of the expedition participants explained.

Overall the excursion seemed frustrating for those on the expedition, save for a point at which they had believed they’d found what they were looking for as they approached a large sign on top of a hill in northeastern Arizona. As it turned out, the sign was a monument alerting visitors that they were standing on the “four corners” of Arizona, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico.