The Parque Cespedes is the center of activity in Santiago de Cuba, a spectacularly beautiful city. I took this photo from the roof of the Hotel Granda.
Here’s a shot of the Parque at night taken from the second floor mezzanine of the Hotel Granda which is a great place to sit and watch the [...]
I ran across this tree while walking the streets of the Vedado neighborhood of Havana. I suppose I should note the following pictures and those I posted yesterday are from visits in 2003 and 2004.
If all goes according to plan I will be posting current photos over the next couple of weeks.
The following [...]
The Cuban Capitol building in Havana is modeled after the USA capitol building.
Beautiful buildings, representing the full range of architectural styles, from colonial, art deco, to modern, are pervasive in Havana.
The colonial building below includes Moorish arches, owing, I suppose, to the Moorish occupation of a large part of Spain and its consequent [...]
Silly me, I thought that every reporter worth the job title (and there seem to be few) would know that the almost ten year old campaign lie that Gore had claimed to have “invented” the internet was just that – a campaign lie.
Now comes AP hack Philip Elliott, reporting on the growing importance of the [...]
Now that my friend Tere (and since one of my readers asked, that is friend as is only a freind) has her truck and has obtained the license plates and her driver’s license, she now must learn how to drive.
So tonight was the first lesson. I drove the truck to the Centro de Abasto [...]
You may have heard the news stories the last couple of days that “U.S. growers produce nearly $35 billion worth of marijuana annually” with “five U.S. states produc[ing] more than $1 billion worth of marijuana apiece: California, Tennessee, Kentucky, Hawaii and Washington”.
“By comparison, the United States produced an average of nearly $23.3 billion worth of [...]
Sunday excursions with Tere and her sons Eduardo, 12, and Francisco, 8, are becoming somewhat of a staple of my life here in Xalapa. Eduardo and Franciso are both delightful young fellow who love to pile into the back up my little pickup, sit on my sleeping pad, wrap up in coats [...]
Those who have traveled with me know that I am an easy mark and have more than once called me a sucker. I prefer to think I’m generous.
It is true that folks, particularly children, seem to know immediately that I’m a soft touch for a sad story. It is [...]
Today I drove Tere’s new Nissan pickup, which she bought without a bed, to just this side of Perote where there are a number of manufacturers of carroceras, carrocerias as to which they are referred.
Tere had purchased a carrocera from one of the outfits and we drove there to have it installed.
It’s interesting to me [...]
A while back I wrote about, and posted a picture of, the shoeshine chairs in Parque Juarez. There are also chairs a various places along the streets. And there are itinerant shoeshines, usually young fellows, who carry boxes which contain their supplies, accessed through a fold down door on the side of the [...]
Granma reports that Oliver Stone has been fined by the Office of Foreign Asset Control of the Treasury Department of the Land of the Free, Home of the Brave for exercising his human right to travel where he pleases.
John Lennon And Me In Havana Park
He Didn't Have Much To Say
Header Photo
The header photo is of school children bouncing on the branch of a tree over looking the Vinales Vally in Pinar del Rio Cuba.
Welcome
As I proceed into my mid-life adventures, of travel and relocation, I intend to regularly post updates of my activities, subject to my ability to access the internet.
I also intend to post reminiscences, ruminations and editorial commentary on whatever subject is currently abrading a lesion under my saddle.
