Farewell to Cuba: Final Days
Final Days First my apologies for letting this last Cuba post take so long. I’m not sure why, other than the fact that February and March seemed to be very busy with both random personal stuff and lots of pen sales. And maybe I just didn’t want to let go of this final phase of our Cuba adventure. February 10 was our final day in Cuba. We would depart from José Marti Airport on the morning of the 11 th . Neither Jim nor José, our group leaders, made any secret of the fact that they wanted us to go out with a splash, that they were going to make that last day extraordinary. Spoiler alert: they did. But let’s start. We began, as we did, with a lecture. This one nominally on architecture and preservation, but the lecturer ranged much more broadly into demographics and the problem of a declining and aging population. I did not record it but it was quite interesting and gave us a lot to think and talk about. From there we went to the La Cabaña fortress, mostly to see...