About
Cesar A. Becerra is a historian, writer and adventurer whose projects and expeditions have been covered in major newspapers across the United States, including his 51,000-mile road trip through all 50 states in one calendar year in 1999, which resulted in a documentary that aired nationally on The Travel Channel. He trekked the 2,160-mile Appalachian Trail with the smallest dog in a year and a half in 2000. From Maine to Georgia, the legendary trail traverses 14 states. Since 2004, he has hiked from Key West to Phoenix on his quest to walk across the United States east to west. A writer with five titles to his name, he is now engaged in writing the epic tale of the 230 foot SS Kaimiloa that plied the South Seas one hundred years ago. He has written articles with a big focus on the Everglades, for which the Miami Herald named him an “Everglades Evangelist” and the New Times called him “Miami Most Peripatetic Historian."
Born in Miami to Cuban parents in 1998, he honored his heritage by publishing an award winning full color weekly journal entitled Cuban Dreams which focused on the centennial of the Spanish American War that not only impacted Cuba and Puerto Rico, but the Caribbean as a whole. Becerra leads monthly boat tours in Miami and has paddled over 400 miles in a kayak around the southern half of Florida. He teaches part time at the Osher Institute of Learning at both the University of Miami and Florida International University and has taught as a visiting lecturer at Miami Dade College.
Cesar’s love for the past and sense of adventure is where his two world’s unite. He has a penchant for hidden history and knows no boundaries or distances when it comes to searching for it.