Category: Travel

Cuban money and legal purchases in Cuba

Five  CUC and  three CUC convertible peso notes are shown with a souvenir Cuban flag. The CUC currency, designed to be exchanged for other currencies brought to Cuba by visitors, isn’t used...

Amazing Havana street music brought tears

Met a wonderful guitar player  in Cathedral Square at twilight. Two standouts will be forever memories when it comes to the music we heard in Cuba. On the advice of a friend...

Gifts brought home from Cuba

This necklace, crafted from a silverplated fork left behind when Batista supporters fled Cuba in 1960 , was  something I bought at a craft market near downtown Havana. No I didn’t buy...

Just back from Cuba

That’s me in an old car serving as a taxi in Havana. A week without cell phone,  internet, or credit cards in Cuba underscores the profound impact those things have on our...

Headed to Cuba

The I’m soon headed to Cuba on a legal people-to-people study trip flying from Miami. Most go there illegally from Toronto, Jamaica or another Caribbean island, since Americans have been permitted legally...

Memorial Day weekend with Civil War

Learned a lot while talking to Civil War reenactors for the story that will run Monday about the Memorial Day weekend encampment and reenactment of the Battle of the Wilderness at Lake...