Have had several friends go and the blank paper stamped instead of the passport thing happens right, wink! Just really ticks me off that our
government can tell us what country we can go into and not. We are letting people go into Communist China every day and give them special concessions
but Cuba is the "Big Threat" to us, well I think not.
I will go when it is legal or through one of the college trips offered off and on. It would be my luck if I went with the paper being stamped found
out and arrested with a lot of B.S. from the winos,dinos and dingbats that are controlling our government agencies now. Our government should never
have the right to tell Americans anytime where we can and cannot go!! Take Care & Travel Safe---------- "No Hurry, No Worry, Just FUN"
bajafun777
anyone who tells you cuban food is great is full of caca. They don't have squat and eat like crap. Most visitors don't get to experience real Cuba.
On a very spontaneous 1 month trip I ran out of money with 6 days left. (Not even the $20 exit fee which had me asking complete strangers in the
airport for said fee!)
I ended up staying with a family in the ghettos of Havana. (well ... it's mostly all ghetto per say. Left with an empty suitcase (except underwear
& box of cigars having given all my stuff to said family) oh ..and bed bugs from what must have been a 60yr old mattress.)
Amazing people and very bizzare to see such highly educated folks with nothing. (Mama had tears in her eyes when I gave her unpackaged soap bar. WTF)
Their lives are so unstructured. Younguns don't work as it's not worth it. ($25 month)
Got to be in the middle of a large shoulder to shoulder voodoo ceremony which I'll never forget.
Communism is alive but it's not well.
Actually had my US passport stamped ... no problems ... and no drama with cigar box in suitcase!
It's a fascinating place. But don't let anyone fool you that it's some kind of paradise with great food.
Originally posted by toneart
"I don’t know that I have a lot of virtues, but one of them would be an intense curiosity about the world." -Anthony Bourdain
This is the line that motivates people like Bourdain and me. Those that don't have that "intense curiosity about the world" are
missing so much because they are blinded by their lack of imagination and/or their constipated and restricting ideology...or...a low IQ. Having a low
IQ is the only excusable excuse. They can't help themselves.
Originally posted by Ken Cooke
Poverty is a part of Latin America that some feel uncomfortable with. Many of the politics there lean left for a reason. Go figure.
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness.”
—Mark Twain
\"La vida es dura, el corazon es puro, y cantamos hasta la madrugada.” (Life is hard, the heart is pure and we sing until dawn.)
—Kirsty MacColl, Mambo de la Luna
Originally posted by Ken Cooke
Poverty is a part of Latin America that some feel uncomfortable with. Many of the politics there lean left for a reason. Go figure.
Has this "left leaning" helped?
You have to ask the people that question. I rented "South Of The Border" for some perspective, although it was overly slanted to the point of being
laughable.
"If it were lush and rich, one could understand the pull, but it is fierce and hostile and sullen.
The stone mountains pile up to the sky and there is little fresh water. But we know we must go back
if we live, and we don't know why." - Steinbeck, Log from the Sea of Cortez
"People don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care." - Theodore Roosevelt
"You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who they think can do nothing for them or to them." - Malcolm Forbes
"Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others
cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you." - Jim Rohn
"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - Cunningham's Law
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