Two Friends, a Bike, and an Odyssey
“All we could see was the dust on the road ahead and ourselves on the bike, devouring kilometers in our flight northward,” is what Guevara wrote in the diary that he kept on this road trip. Despite a six-year age gap between the two, Guevara and Granado, a 29-year-old biochemist, had already been friends for about a decade.
Alberto Granado and Che Guevara. Source: Shutterstock
The pair shared an intellectual curiosity as well as a hunger for adventure. It’s precisely why they decided to embark on what would become an eight-month odyssey up the spine of South America. Born in 1928, Guevara grew up in an upper-middle-class family in Buenos Aires, Argentina. And, as it turns out, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree…