Cuba!

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Here we are in Playa Larga, Matanzas, Cuba and all is well. In fact all is great. We spent 2 nights in Havana and since then have so far put in about 200km on our bikes. This will not be a long post and sadly it may be one of the only and even worse, there may be no photos documenting this trip. It turns out our phones don't really like the humid, rainy tropics, so yeah, neither device is working and those were the only cameras we brought. To make things more complicated, for this purpose, access to leisure goods (like cameras) is quite limited here, so no photos past Havana.

Immediate thoughts:

-people are amazing here and the lifestyle simple

-somehow all 200km so far have been flat or slightly up hill and against the wind

-2 currencies in one country is not as complicated as it seems

-street pizzas are amazing and oh so cheap

-long flat road rides = super sore behinds

-the cars are as spectacular as one would imagine

-on the road we are mostly surrounded by other bikes, bici taxis and horse drawn carts



All in all, we are safe and we are in travel mode (aka happy place). Hope you all are well and happy birthday Pete and Dad (Dave)



Alyssa and Andrew

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Comments

[Frances]

Sounds fabulous.

[Johnny]

Bicycle!!
Thanks so much for the update from such an exotic place on such an arduous journey. Enjoy every moment!

[Becky]

Keep on keeping on
Love the travel adventures you two. Keep going and have fun. Look forward to more stories posted oh, some day. :)

[Dave]

Cuba
I'm glad the trip is going well. Sorry about your phone/camera. You sure you can't just pick up a Kodak disposable camera at the corner 7/11? Enjoy your bike riding and adventure!