Posts in the Cuba Category

For Sale at the Havana Airport

On Sunday of my dream, day 5, I basically came to the point were I became totally and utterly broke. Nonetheless, I still had a very good time and made the most of my broken experience. I felt what it must be like to be Cuban (at least the not having any money part of being Cuban). This is a much different experience then the tourist vibe. The differences are vast. By and large, I spent the last three days of my trip in my Casa Particular watching movies, working on ideas for future projects, and walking to and from cheap places to get food.

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Vivid Cuban Dream Days 1-4

Washington DC.. Or wait a second… Havana, Cuba….

I started out my dream (for those of you that know me well) in true Dave Ford fashion at the five star Parque Grande Hotel in the best part of Havana.

Sidenote: This proved to be dumb. Not just a little bit dumb but extremely, idiotically dumb.

Everything in Cuba revolves around money. When you are American everything revolves around you “NOT” having access to any money.

So, in the first four days of my dream I spent a ton of money. I brought $1000 bucks (in my dream) thinking that it would plenty. After traveling for the last 6 and a half months in South America I though that I would have some sort of an idea about how much everything would cost. I was “as wrong as the day is long”.

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I had a dream I was in Havana Cuba.It was remarkably vivid. It was almost as if I was actually there. So, I decided to write about it. Everything that you read in these next three posts were all a part of a crazy dream. I met so many people, smelled the air, walked through the streets, smoked the cigars, drank the Mojitos, went to a museum, and got a tan.

This amazingly vivid dream lasted for 7 days. The first few days were much different then the last three. Mostly, because during the last three days of this dream I did not have “ANY” money.

Honestly, I had a lot of trouble writing these posts. Most of my extreme hardships came while trying to figure out how to divide my experiences with the history of Cuba. In the end, I decided to split it up into three posts.

Post 1: This one… My Rough interpretation of the recent and not so recent History of Cuba

Post 2: The first four days of my dream in Havana

Post 3: The last three days of my dream in Havana “broke as a joke” in my hotel room.

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