The story starts out as an account of the motorcycle journey of two young men around Latin America. The steed, an old Norton named La Poderosa ll provides the transportation albeit not for long.
The story taken from Ernesto’s notes is in my humble view more of a story of how a seed of ideology comes to fruition in a young man and shapes him. During his travels Ernesto, an educated man, sees the many ills and injustices in the world in which he travels. La Poderosa ll doesn’t make it but the ideals spawned during the adventure do.
The young man who originally sets out with his friend Alberto to tour the country side changes him and is the start of a development that creates the revolutionary Che Guevara. Whether you agree with his politics or not he had the balls to try to right the wrongs he saw around him, which in the end cost him his life.
Good read and much food for thought.
