Let's Go to Cuba!

Michael Gives Fredo "The Kiss of Death"  ("I know it was you, Fredo!")

Hello Fellow Travelers!

Cuba?  My only lasting impression of Cuba was provided by Francis Ford Coppola in "Godfather II", still for me the best movie ever made.  Until recently, I annually revisited the Corleones and watched "The Godfather - Parts I & II" because nothing heralds the birth of "The Prince of Peace" quite like machine guns and "gravy" (Red!)

So, when I heard that after 50 years of strained/no relations with Cuba, the USA would be normalizing relations with Havana, I was really excited!  I still am.  It's about time!  Cuba?  Great!  It's like Florida but it's still a foreign country.  CNN reported that Cuba had stopped developing technologically in 1959.  According to the news, cars in Havana tend to be made in Motown and have big fins.  The best car story?  The Stephen King Classic, "Christine" where the "possessed" car is a 1959 Plymouth Fury.

In both "GFII" and "Chistine" the cars were monsters, huge, powerful, American!

And, according to CNN, Havana still has these cars!  And lots of them!   It's like a dream for "American Pickers"!

And cake!  Cuba had birthday cake!   In "G2", the legendary Lee Strasberg complains his piece of birthday cake is "too big" (as if!) and sends it back!  Warm and they have quality baked goods?  Let's go!  Where do I sign up?  I don't care how old that cake is!  They must have the junk to make more someplace.

And coconut!  Sugary, shaved, snow-white coconut, they have that too right?  I'll bring it if they don't!

Havana is supposed to be the Charlie Brown Christmas Tree of vacation destinations - run down, stuck in a time warp, lots of potential still beautiful.  It's on my short list with those amazing goats in the Italian Alps of places I have to see, in person and I won't take a "poop cruise" to get there either!