| Jun 30 2013: Vacation-time! Living on the road for an extended period brings up a unique set of issues, mainly around residency and citizenship. Annual chores like filing taxes and renewing licenses and passports present new challenges as we've got to figure out how to do all this while being out of Canada.
— in Guatemala City, Guatemala
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| Jun 14 2013: Guatemalan Socialites When riding back from Guatemala City, Maya's rear brake seized, forcing us to pull over in heavy traffic. We couldn't pull over safely for quite a distance and when we finally stopped, the rear pads were smoking more than Neda did in Cuba.
— in Antigua, Sacatepequez, Guatemala
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| Jun 01 2013: Relaxing in Antigua After the wi-fi Internet got installed in our apartment, that sealed the deal. I was never ever ever leaving this place. Like, ever...
— in Antigua, Sacatepequez, Guatemala
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| May 22 2013: Mexican Love Songs Everyone here is friendly and helpful and not after our money. Everything is familiar again. We know how much everything should cost and where to go to get stuff. Being in Mexico felt like being able to breathe again! Figuratively, of course... since there are no air pollution laws here... :)
— in Cancun, Quinta Roo, Mexico
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| May 16 2013: Last days in Cuba We did feel a bit trapped, not able to leave when we wanted to, and I understood now the plight of many on the island, not having the resources to leave the country. Never did we look so forward to throwing up our lunches overboard!
— in Cienfuegos, Cuba
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| May 10 2013: Sometimes a cigar is... We've never smoked a cigar in our lives, so Juan found it quite funny when I coughed up a lung after deeply inhaling some of the thick cigar smoke. So apparently you have to make like Clinton and not inhale, just puff.
— in Vinales, Pinar del Rio, Cuba
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| May 07 2013: Havana Rough Time... Cuba is wearing us thin. I can tell that I've lost my humour and we're spending more time sequestered away in our room than out exploring. I don't think we're normally this sensitive to being hustled, but we've been on the road for almost a year now and travel fatigue is setting in.
— in Havana, Cuba
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| May 03 2013: ¡Viva la Revolución! We learned about the young Argentine doctor, who came from a privileged family, gave up everything and fought in the jungles of Cuba to free the oppressed workers of the country and the corruption of the Batista dictatorship.
— in Santa Clara, Cuba
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| Apr 28 2013: Holed up in Holguin One of the two policemen who were there keeping a watch pulled me aside and said something in Spanish, which to my ears sounded like, "You're under arrest".
— in Holguin, Cuba
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| Apr 26 2013: Nickels and Dimes in Baracoa I couldn't shrug off the growing feeling that everywhere we went on the island, we were going to be nickeled and dimed, and that most of the locals just viewed us and all the other tourists as walking wallets.
— in Baracoa, Cuba
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| Apr 24 2013: One-Ton-of-Mayo-Guantana-Guantanamera... I didn't know much about Che Guevara besides the fact that he was some big capitalist pig who licensed his image to tons of T-shirt and poster manufacturers...
— in Guantanamo, Cuba
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| Apr 22 2013: Landing on Cuban Shores We were told that bikes like ours never make it onto the island and to see one was like seeing a "lion roaming the streets" or seeing a "spacecraft parked in the town square".
— in Santiago, Cuba
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Jan 25 2018 to Feb 20 2018
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