September 20, 2003
El Jardin del Oriente
Habana Vieja, Cuba

"Absolute ideas must take relative forms if they are not to fail because of an error in form. Freedom, to be viable, has to be sincere and complete. If a republic refuses to open its arms to all, and move ahead with all, it dies."
Jose Marti- "Our America"

"Nations [...]

September 17, 2003
Habana, Cuba
Cafe Restaurante El Louvre

A lot of first impressions of Habana. One of the strongest is that I feel intimidated … a feeling I haven’t had traveling for a long long while. Probably not since Bangkok in 1999. Jesus, more than four years ago. Sometimes it shocks me that [...]

September 17, 2003
Habana, Cuba
Cafe Restaurante El Louvre

A lot of first impressions of Habana. One of the strongest is that I feel intimidated … a feeling I haven’t had traveling for a long long while. Probably not since Bangkok in 1999. Jesus, more than four years ago. Sometimes it shocks me that [...]

Update: The tone of this post gives the impression that Peter and I had different experiences in Cuba because I am somehow more qualified than he. To be entirely honest, that is probably how I felt. But after reading this comment and doing some more thinking, I’ve come to the conclusion that Peter and I [...]

Update: The tone of this post gives the impression that Peter and I had different experiences in Cuba because I am somehow more qualified than he. To be entirely honest, that is probably how I felt. But after reading this comment and doing some more thinking, I’ve come to the conclusion that Peter and I [...]

Let’s take a break from my incessant whining about my very flat wallet shall we?
Last Monday, I think it was, Laura and I took off in the Chi Chi for a three hour desert trip to Northern Coahuila. Through the maquila filled pueblo/rancho of San Pedro, the vast expanse of flat desert nothingingness, and finally [...]

Let’s take a break from my incessant whining about my very flat wallet shall we?
Last Monday, I think it was, Laura and I took off in the Chi Chi for a three hour desert trip to Northern Coahuila. Through the maquila filled pueblo/rancho of San Pedro, the vast expanse of flat desert nothingingness, and finally [...]

Those of you whom have traveled in the developing world know that most tourist cities have two kinds of bars. There are the tourists bars where the locals go to meet (and sometimes scam) foreigners and their are the local bars where tourists go to prove to themselves that they are adventurous and multicultural. But [...]

For those of you who remember Deny from this post, he just sent me an email that I can’t but help to post up here. It is absolutely surreal to me that just a couple months ago we were praying to Allah that our wooden raft wasn’t gonna sink into crocodile infested water and now [...]

Sparsh just got back from Peru and Bolivia. While visiting Macchu Picchu he was atacked by this fierce Alpaca.
Peru always has something up her sleeves for you. When Emily and I arrived in 2001 we were so impressed with the country, its people, and landscape that we extended our time there by two weeks. In [...]