San Felipe, Baja, Mexico

The San Felipe Title Company
Coming This Sunday - January 11th, 2009, 3PM
2004 'The Motorcycle Diaries'

As part of its revised roster of activities, the bookstore (in it NEW LOCATION) will be celebrating foreign, camp, edgy and cult films with a regular screening of a movie each Sunday afternoon at 3pm.

This Sunday's choice is 'The Motorcycle Diaries'.

In 1952, a semester before Ernesto "Fuser" Guevara is due to complete his medical degree, he and his older friend Alberto, a biochemist, leave Buenos Aires in order to travel across the South American continent in search of fun and adventures. While there is a goal at the end of their journey - they intend to work in a leper colony in Peru - the main purpose is tourism. They want to see as much of Latin America as they can, more than 8,000 miles in just a few months, and also bed as many Latin American women as will fall for their pick-up lines. Their initial method of transport is Alberto's ancient and leaky but functional Norton 500 motorcycle christened La Poderosa ("The Mighty One").

During their expedition, Guevara and Granado encounter the poverty of the indigenous peasants, and the movie assumes a greater seriousness once the men gain a better sense of the disparity between the "haves" and "have-nots" of Latin America.

Free coffee and cookies are provided.