freewheelin: Diarios de motocicleta: a journey within!

“What do we leave behind when we cross each frontier? Each moment seems split in two; melancholy for what was left behind and the excitement of entering a new land” - Che Guevara

I had only heard abt 'Che' and his part in the Cuban revolution. He is the icon thats well recognised through people wearing his t-shirts but I guess very few know who he really was or what he really did. Buts its only when I started reading the book 'Motorcycle Diaries' that I started to know Che, the person. The book is not about overly stated political ideals. Its about a coming of age story of two young men - Guevara and Granado. Whats the undertstated theme of this journal is that you can do what you really want to, if you want to. Yesterday I saw the movie. Its just beautiful. Though its in spanish and is based in 1950s in south america, you feel you know the characters from somewhere - the symmetry of riches and poverty, of happiness and pain.

I loved this quote from the book and the movie:
"Although we're too insignificant to be spokemen for such a noble cause, we believe, and this journey has only served to confirm this belief, that the division of America into unstable and illusory nations is a complete fiction. We are one single mestizo race with remarkable ethnohraphical similarities, from Mexico down to the Magellan Straits. And so, in an attempt to break free from all narrow-minded provincialism, I propose a toast to Peru and to a United America."