"Develop a built-in bullshit detector"-E.H

The desk Ernest Hemingway wrote from while living in Havana.

The flight attendants had 70's uniforms on and handed out little hard candies from Russia.

A common site

There was incredible life happening down every street

The truth is... Ernest Hemingway wrote the quote above. But he also wrote, "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them". I believe the latter. I trust, which I believe makes me completely trustworthy. You can trust me...it's just in my DNA make up, can't explain it, but if I have to...I would say i didn't come here having to deal with issues of trust. I have other issues at hand...which I have so noted in my previous entries. LOL

This brings me to my present point and my reason for writing this long awaited blog entry.

Don't trust what they say about Cuba...yeah, Cuba! I so often think about my travels there and images of this beautiful island drift into my dreams now and then.

I miss it. You should go. It's one of the biggest adventures I have ever been on...as of today.

It's clean, safe, beautiful and most of all, rich with culture and pride. The people are poor, but not the poor we usually envision. They don't beg, they just don't want like "we" in the states want. They have enough...and that was very inspiring to me. I find great beauty in simplicity.

So yeah, me and my friend Chris decided not to listen to that big scary voice of the media, of the rumor mill, of just plain U.S history books and venture off to Cuba.

If I wonder about a place, a person or an idea...I head straight towards it...and trust.