1997 Archive

Gay Cuba

This entry doesn't actually start in Cuba. It starts in Miami a few months earlier. I saw a very small notice in one of the gay newspapers in Miami about a documentary called "Gay Cuba" by Sonja de Vries being presented at the community college in downtown Miami. I expected maybe a dozen gay and [...]

Cuba Ingenuity

I thought I'd share a few amusing sights I saw in Cuba proving Cuban ingenuity–necessity is the mother of invention after all!

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BICYCLES
The bicycle is the main method of transport in Cuba not because people don't have cars but because they can't afford gasoline for them. The government imported 1 [...]

Cuba, Si! Err, No. Well, Maybe

Photo byLeszek Majkowski.
Cuba produced a lot of different reactions in me and I saw it through a lot of different eyes. As I review my journal entries, my opinion of the place seemed to swing from wildly positive to darkly negative. I was always learning something though, always being surprised for good or bad.
Havana immediately [...]

Settling into the RD

RD = Dominican Republic (initials in Spanish ordering of course)
After almost two weeks here I am starting to settle in. Unfortunately, I started my visit to RD with five days in the capitol, Santo Domingo. Not being a novice to Latin American cities I should have known better. Actually I had some stuff to [...]

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