BLOG POST 6: LARRY
TRAVELING CUBA:
Traveling inter provincially in Cuba is not as hectic a process as one might think if that person has a solid source of dinero. We have been moved around the country by vans, busses, airplanes, jeeps, and open-air trucks. It always seems that for a group such as our there is a driver willing and readily available to zoom us across the countryside to another tourist destination. What is really unsettling is the reality that most Cubans live in is not in any way a mirror image of our fluid travel options. Most Cubans have seen less of their own country than we have as a group in the last two months. There is a whole net work of transit set up for those who have the cash to supply long distance travel but for the average Cuban a whole other system is put into use. For example there are tourist busses and Cuban travel busses and although through certain system leverage a tourist could travel on the Cuban bus and vice versa. It seems not to be a very commonly practiced tradition. So yet again the ever-observing tourists and travelers are mostly missing out on a reality of how Cubans attempt to travel within the country. Some that I come across of course also drive form place to place but the petroleum is costly. As I have stated in previously written posts limited transportation and ability to leave ones community makes for a totally different perspective on how people view each other in a more sedentary space.