Smith: if you want a really good travel series, try "Tramping through Mexico" by Harry A Franck. He was a Michigan grad back in, like, 1905. He's completely unconstrained by political correctness, so you get a beautiful idea of what life was actually like in those days. His focus is on what he's seeing, and not on the 'existential journey'. So it's not standard clap-trap like Kerouac.
I mention this because you've indicated that you speak Spanish, and work with Latinos, and Franck's books are an excellent insight into how they lived all the way up until the smart-phone.
Now, I imagine, it's all tik-tok and prostitution. I was lucky enough to go before the iPhone, and the experience was wonderful.
On The Road by Kerouac?
Smith: if you want a really good travel series, try "Tramping through Mexico" by Harry A Franck. He was a Michigan grad back in, like, 1905. He's completely unconstrained by political correctness, so you get a beautiful idea of what life was actually like in those days. His focus is on what he's seeing, and not on the 'existential journey'. So it's not standard clap-trap like Kerouac.
I mention this because you've indicated that you speak Spanish, and work with Latinos, and Franck's books are an excellent insight into how they lived all the way up until the smart-phone.
Now, I imagine, it's all tik-tok and prostitution. I was lucky enough to go before the iPhone, and the experience was wonderful.
Aerotrain
Thanks! Sounds good