Stephen Edward Paper

Waiting On Fidel Stephen Edward Paper

The author, not being of sound mind after a car accident, is invited to hitchhike from Tempe, Arizona to Mexico City with a friend from Paris who has two PhDs. A week after the accident, he has the stitches taken out and an hour later they hit the road. The first thing he learns is Mexico can be kind of dangerous and travel with his new friend can go from the boring to the terrifying in an instant. There are a few embellishments along the way and although the book follows their route south for a good deal of the trip, fifty per cent of the story is true and the other eighty per cent not so much (my apologies to Yogi Berra). Without the language, apprehensive about the food and water, wary about the Police, Federales, banditos, a burgeoning revolution and a brilliant Frenchman who seems to lead them into trouble at every turn, the author finds himself on edge throughout.