–the great thing about travel stories is how very often they write themselves– chapter 1 july 18, 2009 havana, cuba just landed in la habana, chicos y chicas! a quick, but expensive, 1 hour flight from montego bay, jamaica, to……

still havana…. okay… okay… cuba does have its charms. primero… el ron! the rum. not bacardi. no, fidel threw those capitalist swine out a long time ago. now it’s havana club. cheap… and… muy bueno! but since raoul completely closed…

still havana funny, it doesn’t look like havana. but maybe that’s because we’re stuck inside this white, windowless box of a room over the garage at the back of the driveway of jose and maria’s casa particular in vedado. there’s…