Chapters 10 - 12 Summary and Analysis

"On the Seven Lakes Road" follows Che and Alberto to Bariloche by the Seven Lakes Road. They find a road laborer's hut to sleep in. Their trip the next day surrounds them with local forest. However, La Poderosa gets a flat, and while they are patching it up at a shed of an Austrian caretaker, a puma comes upon them. It leaps at them and Che shoots and kills it. But it turns out to be the Austrian couples' dog, Bobby, a nasty dog. They leave for San Carlos de Bariloche and spend the night in a police station.

"And now, I feel my great roots unearth, free and ..." opens with Che and Alberto in the police station during a storm. Che is reading a letter and is fascinated by its contents; the letter causes him to dream of...