4 January - Granado and Guevara Leave Buenos Aires

On this day in 1952, Alberto Granado and Ernest Guevara set off from Buenos Aires on a 1939 Norton Model 18 the called La Poderosa, beginning their journey across South America that change the course of “Che” Guevara’s life and become immortalised in The Motorcycle Diaries.

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You have reminded me that my daughter still has my Motorcycle Diaries DVD!

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