Steven’s Cuba Blog

Epilogue

October 19, 2005 at 4:13 pm | In Epilogue |

I’m back in Montreal - I’ve been back for a week actually (and I still haven’t seen the sun yet).

After 1900km of biking - and countless more on the bus, the train, driving, in the taxi / cocotaxi / bicitaxi, and on horseback - I went as far west as Pinar Del Rio and as far east as Santiago de Cuba (one of my new favorite cities). I stopped in almost every city and town in between - big and small - and had wonderful conversations, made new friends, and discovered things about Cuba - and about myself.

I’m going to be writing two reports on this specific trip - one basic “this-is-where-I-went-and-what-I-did” affair, and a second one which will be more a socio-politic-techno-psychological (say that three times fast!) observation based on what I saw and the discussions I had with Cubans.

Also, keep an eye on the parent URL of this blog (http://ahoracuba.com) in the next few weeks… although my hopes of getting Cubans blogging were kind of soured by the discovery that most of them can’t even legally access the web, I’ve got some ideas up my sleeve.

Also, one of the major news sources out of Cuba - http://cubasi.com - now has an RSS feed. And no: while I wish I had something to do with it, I didn’t…