Monthly Archives: September 2015

We woke up and had a big desayuno (breakfast) before heading to La Boca, Playa Ancon, and the Marlin Marina. Again it was a delicious 2 course meal starting with fresh fruit – pineapple, passionfruit, mango, and watermelon, with passionfruit juice and coffee. The second course was eggs – I did an omelet with just the…

Our road trip adventure to Trinidad, Cuba began by getting horribly lost trying to get out of Havana. Despite the directions we got from Kenia, and the map, we kept making wrong turns trying to find the A-1 (La Autopista Nacional), and stopped to ask directions at nearly every turn. Finally, we got on the…

In the morning, we showered and got ready to go to breakfast, and then onward to meet our friends and see more of Havana. We went upstairs to Casa Maura (the Castellòn family apparently owned a few Casa Particulares in the building) and took breakfast out on the balcony. Our friends were already waiting for…

We were looking forward to our first of many Havana nights, having just flown in to HAV airport from Panama City (PTY) – but first had to get to our lodging in Havana. We had booked a Casa Particular for our first night’s stay (September 12, 2015), and was leaving the rest of it to…

This is my first time to Cuba, and it was still certainly a challenge of arriving in Cuba despite the fact that relations with the U.S. are thawing. Not only did we have to master the challenge of the “flying through a third” city, but then we had to find flights that were actually affordable. We…

For the past week, I’ve been on the Caribbean island of Curacao on a business trip, with a little leisure mixed in. I got in on the Monday of Labor Day (Sep. 7) and was able to stay until Saturday, at which point I’d be flying to Cuba to spend the entire next week. I…