Motorcycle Diaries

Question 1

2

So we understand each other

Answer 1

The person who wrote these notes passed away the moment his feet touched Argentine soil again. That person who reorganised and polishes them, me, no longer, at least I am not the person I once was.

Question 2

3

Discovery of the ocean

Answer 2

The full moon silhouetted against the sea, smothering the waves with silver reflections…
The sea has always been a confidant, a friend

Question 3

4

…lovesick pause

Answer 3

I finally felt myself lifted definitively away in the winds of adventure towards worlds i envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal

Question 4

5

Until the last tie broken

Answer 4

We still looked into the future with impatient joy

Question 5

6

For the flu, bed

Answer 5

The photograph…was an acknowledgement of our changed circumstances and of the horizons we were seeking, free at last from ‘civilisation’

Question 6

7

For the flu, bed

Answer 6

We discovered that the infamous noise had been the front part of the bike frame breaking

Question 7

8

San Martin de Los Andes

Answer 7

I now know… that my destiny is to travel

Question 8

9

San Martin de Los Andes

Answer 8

Perhaps one day…I’ll return to Argentina…if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another

Question 9

10

Circular exploration

Answer 9

The huge figure of a stag dashed like a quick breath across the stream… this tremor of nature cut straight to our hearts

Question 10

1

So we understand each other

Answer 10

It is a glimpse of two lives running parallel for a time, with similar hopes and convergent dreams