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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!

Cuba, 1997RoderoBuy this Art Print at AllPosters.com

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 get [...]

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