Dan Daher rolled out at 5 a.m. from the shaded parking lot behind the Torres Martinez Tribal Community Hall in Mecca, as he does every Sunday through Thursday. By day's end, he'll have logged nearly 300 miles in his Kia Niro hybrid, crisscrossing Southern California highways, dust-caked towns and badly potholed roads encircling the Salton Sea and the rural Imperial and east Coachella valleys.