Ernesto "Che" Guevara and his friend, Alberto Granado set out on a journey to reach the United States in 1951. The pair navigate a Norton through the lands of Argentina, Chile, Peru, Columbia, Venezuela.
On January 31, 1952 they arrive in San Martín. Che Guevara describes the location, "San Martín lies on the yellow-green slopes that melt into the blue depths of Lake Lacar".
Guevara has a very crucial revelation in this location. He writes, "Although often on our travels we longed to stay in the formidable places we visited, only the Amazon jungle called out to that sedentary part of ourselves as strongly as did this place. I now know, by an almost fatalistic conformity with the facts, that my destiny is to travel...".
San Martin de los Andes, Neuquen, Argentina
