Che Guevara

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Aleida Guevara March

In January 1952, two young men from Buenos Aires set out to explore South America on 'La Poderosa', the Powerful One: a 500cc Norton. One of them was the twenty-three-year-old Che Guevara. Written eight years before the Cuban Revolution, these are Che's diaries, detailing their thrilling and dangerous road trip across Latin America.

The Motorcycle Diaries

so greatly do i differ and yet agree… Love a train or bus or long transit through a place, staring out, getting a sense of the enormity and the spacing of a place! The little normal bits, how people live, how the land en masse looks.

Beatrix

We set off again, passing greatly varying lakes, all surrounded by ancient forest, the scent of wilderness caressing our nostrils. But curiously, the sight of a lake and a forest and a single solitary house with a well-tended garden soon begins to grate. Seeing the landscape at this superficial level only captures its boring uniformity, not allowing you to immerse yourself in the spirit of the place; for that you must stop at least several days. 

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