I really enjoyed getting a peak behind the curtain that Langston Hughes left for us. He so beautifully wrote this travel blog in the 30s.

I really enjoyed reading out loud to my mom what was then called Hampton Institute (her Alma Mater) and his time there as he traveled through the South reading his poems. Really living the dream, he stated multiple times his poems are by a black man for black people.

The reader is able to wonder with him as he moved through Japan, Mexico, USSR, Spain (during the Spanish civil war), etc. He met so many poets, writers, artists, a famous boxer, to many to count. While also explaining how in some countries during that time race did/or did not matter. Not to mention the way he was able to pick up different languages. 

He traveled the way I would love to by getting in a country and totally immersing yourself in the culture. This was such a treat to read and an amazing insight in who was an amazing man.