My Top Ten Experiences in Cuba
Traveling in Cuba wasn’t all introspection about tourism and musing on economics – no, we definitely had a lot of fun on our people-to-people tour as well. We crammed a lot in our eight brief days on the island,…
Money, Power, and Capitalism in Cuba
Our tour bus bounced through the streets of a small Cuban city, and our national guide craned his neck to look out the window. “I can tell you,” he said, “just by looking at the houses, who…
What You Need to Know about Cuba People-to-People Tours
It was day four or five of our people-to-people tour, and we were grilling our Cuban national guide with some of the harder-hitting questions, seeing how much we could get out of him. I had just asked…
30 Countries in 30 Years
There are birthdays and then there are BIRTHDAYS. And I’ve had some good birthdays. There was the year we threw an international spy themed party and I wore a fascinator. There was the year Boyfriend took me…