Little did I know when I was in college that I would develop an insatiable taste for travel, a sense of wanderlust. It was 2010, I had just transferred to San Diego State University and I decided on a whim that I wanted to study abroad to Vietnam, because I didn’t...
Bring snacks. You can only buy food here at government run stores who have inconsistent hours and not much to choose from. Most public toilets are pretty bad. Always carry toilet paper and hand sanitizer. There is a $25 CUC exit tax. Make sure to save some money for...
Today we drove from Havana to Cienfuegos. In total the drive is about 5 hours in a rather cramped can, but we had a couple of stops to break it up. Several Observations The roads are quite nice for the most part. Not a lot of potholes. Not a lot of traffic. We have a...
We flew from Cancun to La Habana Cuba which took approximately 1 hour. We flew the airline Interjet which I had always heard was a crappy airline but it was actually great. Thoughts About Interjet Upon arrival to the Cancun airport, they had a separate line for each...
Coming to Cuba, one of the last two remaining truly communist states, I expected there to be propaganda posters and pictures of Che all over the place.Instead we were greeted by very large, very capitalistic adverts for the local Cuban beer and Lucky Strike...
