Spanish Fortress at the entrance to the harbour in Havana Who says Vision Boards don't work? In 2000 I stuck a picture of a blue vintage car like this on my Vision Board (trendy at the time) and decided that Cuba was one of the places I wanted to see. My sister had been there as a volunteer twice and couldn't stop talking about how friendly the people were and how modestly they lived. That blue car! My experience wasn't at all like that. In fact, I felt that I had come about forty years too late. My first encounter was with a taxi driver who charged me fifty dollars to take me from the airport when it should have cost less than half that, as I later found out. The friendly man who offered to show me where the bank was demanded payment afterwards for walking me one or two blocks even though I hadn't asked him to. These are just two examples. Although things were much better once I was out of the city, they tended to leave a sour taste. Eventually I ...
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