Less than a hundred miles off the coast of the United States, Cuba is a step into a seemingly lost era. Travelers dreaming of visiting Cuba conjure images of classic fifties cars set against crumbling Spanish colonial facades. They picture lively street-side musicians and miles of gorgeous coastline. And that’s largely what you find when …
The thunderclouds hung low for hours over Havana, Cuba before Louise and I decided enough was enough. If the rain was playing a game of chicken with us then we planned to spend the afternoon exploring historic Havana instead of hiding indoors in anticipation of the thick sheets of rain that had, for six long …
You know that idyllic image of American life in the 1950s? You know the one I mean: Neat yards aligned up and down the streets of pretty suburbs, complete with white picket fences and neighbors pruning their roses while tossing friendly hellos to passerby? I wasn’t alive back then, so I don’t know how much …
(Story from a trip to Cuba in January 2010) I have a confession to make about why I rarely mention the eight days I spent in Cuba a year ago … I stayed mum because much of it’s lukewarm. And I steer clear of overtly negative posts on a country or city because travel is …
I haven’t talked much about traveling through Cuba but this image is pretty iconic Cuba in my memories. The cities in Cuba are filled with crumbling houses once painted with an array of blues, yellows, and oranges but the wealth that built most of Cuba decades ago has simply faded over the years—zero maintenance and …
Central America, you win. I lay prostrate at your feet and surrender—to your charm, your eccentricities, and especially to the phrase that seems to run the show: más o menos. Más o menos means “more or less” in Spanish—but depending on the context, it can signal anything from “approximately” to “don’t take this too literally.” …