Today I am leaving Cuba. As I write this I am sitting in Terminal B, waiting for my flight to Cancun that leaves in a little more than an hour. And after 99 days here, I don’t know how I will feel. Time has flown by. I knew it would, because it always does. Yet […]
Pasitos
Lawrence and I went for a hike today. We found a bizarre building on the jetty that claimed to be a “Business Center” and decided to investigate. We walked in past the official desk and leather couches in the lobby to find a stairwell off to the right with a sleeping guard at its base. […]
Despedidas
As we enter our final week in Havana, the time has inevitably come when we are forced to accept that we must say goodbye to those we have met here. This reality didn’t really hit me until last night, when a close friend took off for Varadero and had to say an early goodbye. A […]
Reintegrating
“Just think in two weeks from today you’ll be waking up in your own comfortable bed to the smell of chocolate chip pancakes—no waffles, chocolate chip waffles—and Sandy will wake you up by sitting on you and you might be annoyed because the baby kept you up all night, but then your mom will bring […]
Los Amigos
Anthony Bourdain, a world renowned chef and food critic—and as far as I know a happily married man—took me on a date to Los Amigos, a paladar that offers comida típica on the corner of M and 19th street. It was a breezy Friday night, and yet the paladar was hardly half-full. I was […]