Gilles Mendel

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690 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 4 Feb

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The first trip I went in America, I went all the way to California.

I remember I thought I was going to go to California, take Route 60 down the coast, get to and go to Mexico.

I speak Spanish and I thought, Jill, are you going to let's go to Mexico?

It's going to be fun.

You know, I was still, you know, I travel in buses, you know, youth hostels, whatever.

And when I passed by Tijuana and I went back to Mexico, I got really scared.

I thought, oh, this is not really for me.

The city was very crowded.

Everything was not my thing.

And I said, you know, maybe I should continue.

It's not too far.

I'm going to go to the next frontier, which is Guatemala.

And I went literally out of the blue.

I remember I crossed the frontier by foot.

I mean, to tell you how not prepared I had.

I had just a little knapsack with my toothbrush, no camera, nothing, no drugs.

You know, I was really completely in a mood of discovering something that I've never experienced in Europe.

I don't even understand to date how my parents let me do that.

It was insane because it was not a time of telephone, cell phones or anything.

And the moment I stepped in Guatemala in those days,

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