Yah mon, chukka!
[Sorry about that. Somehow I published a draft yesterday, sans editing and sans photos. I know because one of my readers offered me a...
Cantores y Lulus
The highlight of yesterday’s exploration of the Local Culture of Cienfuegos was a concert given for us by the 19-singer Cantores de...
Cienfuegos, or One Hundred Fires
There is no story of 100 fires. Señor Fuegos was an early city father, though the city was founded, in the late 1800s, by French...
Bienvenido a Cuba!
Repeat after me: ‘Cooo-bah.’ And, yes, they still serve the first illegal cocktail I ever drank: a Cuba libre. And, yes, rum is the drink...
Passepartout Going Zero Dark Thirty
Mrs. Malaprop is misappropriating a military term to announce she will be ‘dark’ for the next 30 hours. I won’t take my laptop to Havana...
Land Ho!
December 17, 10:10 a.m. — Land mass off the forward bow, Cap’n. Assume it is Cuba. It had better be. #
Traveling around the Sun
Official second day... I imagine the giant image at the top of the grand staircase will change with each port of call — all 64 of them!...
Anchors Aweigh!
The view from my balcony about 5 hours after embarking from Miami. Heading for... Cuba! They had to change the original plan and we will...
‘To the ship, to the ship, to the ship, to the ship, to the ship, to the ship... TO THE SHIP!’ — The
Sherpa Susan.… the backpack holds the Ukulele… the black bag holds the computers and dirty laundry… the vest holds everything else! < at...
