Sightseeing In La Habana
When I started this blog, I didn’t want it to be just a travelogue, a recitation of where we’ve been and what we’ve seen. That just didn’t seem interesting to me. If I was going…
Musica En Cuba
Visiting Cuba and not seeing live music would be a shame on its own merits, but it would be a sin for me. If you put a gun to my head and told me I…
Visiting Trinidad
We arrived in Habana, if just barely, on April 6th. Our local friend Jenn, halfway between fairy godmother and witch, had made arrangements for a group tour of one of Cuba’s oldest cities, Trinidad, on…
How Things Work
Things are different in Cuba. Different enough that some of them need to be explained. The Internet Cuba opened up to a largely uncensored internet in 2015, with private wifi becoming available in 2019. They’re still…
Landing In La Habana
As has been exhaustively documented, the actual Landing In Cuba was hellish, but it’s been pretty smooth sailing since then. Our local friend Jenn arranged a driver to pick us up at the airport, which…
An Unprecedented Level Of Fuckery
One of the principles underlying this adventure is shopping. I don’t mean tourist shopping, for handicrafts and native artifacts. I mean shopping to feed ourselves, which is the activity that most ties us to local…
Fasten Your Seatbelts. It’s Going To Be A Bumpy Ride…
Well said. Getting to Cuba was easily one of the worst travel experiences of my life. Because of cost and schedule, we weren’t flying from Mexico City directly to Havana. Instead, we flew CDMX to…
Vast In Scale
Mexico City has a lot going on visually, but not necessarily in the same way as Oaxaca. Oaxaca’s culture fells like it’s happening on the street and you just get to walk through it. CDMX,…
Museo Anahuacalli
I thought I was done writing about Mexico City, and then we squoze in one more epic experience worth sharing. Museo Anahuacalli is also known as the Diego Rivera Museum. Or one of them. That designation…
Big Box, Small Box
I found the retail landscape in Oaxaca confounding. At its core, my confusion was about the apparent mismatch between supply and demand. There were so many shops and so much merchandise, and so much of…