My Travel Adventures, Cars , and Motorcycles

Dear friends & family,

I’m off on another motorcycle adventure! For this trip I’m doing a tour with Motodiscovery. Below are the two leaders, Juan and Ziggi. I have traveled with both before. Great guys and a lot of fun to travel with!

Also Juan’s special skill is finding great places to eat!!! Do the next 12 days should be fun!

If you’re interested in doing one of their tours click the link below. They do tours all over the world.

https://motodiscovery.com/tour/cuba-motorcycle-tour/#tour-highlights

Below are a few photos of Havana. An interesting combination of classical and modern architecture and wealth and poverty. And lots of color and classic cars!!

Downtown Havana is a mixture of beautiful classic architecture and run down slums. Many buildings need repair but Cuba can’t buy concrete.

The hotel I stayed at the first two nights. Definitely modern first class inside!

Lots of old American cars. In Havana they are mostly used for taxis,

This afternoon was my first day in Havana. I walked around the neighborhood of our hotel and explored the city. You can see that at one time Havana was an amazingly beautiful city. Many of the classic buildings still exist but are in sad shape due to lack of money for repairs.

Then this evening I walked around the city with Juan and Siggi and explored the nightlife and had a few mojitos. All fun.😁

A great motorcycle touring company. I’ve done 6 tours with them and are were great !

The main walk way through the center of town.

The aviation museum with planes used in the Cuban revolution.

The ladies below ran up to me and pretended to be welcoming me with a kiss on the cheek…..then they asked for $20. I felt so used.😆😆

The parliament building.

This is the hotel Ernest Hemingway lived in when he first moved to Cuba.

An old fashion pharmacy.

The road side factory sewed clothes for tourists. The only things you can buy in Cuba and take home must me locally hand made.

Lots of unique art work every where.

The Havanah Opera House still in use today.

One street can be full of beautiful buildings and around the corner it’s sad.

Dinner my first night in Cuba. Night life there is vibrant and colorful.

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Again my guides and friends Sigginand Juan. Great men and well educated so interesting to talk to.

The original Spanish fort that was built to protect the harbor.

For some reason women here like to smoke cigars.

The revolution museum. Very interesting and always good to learn the other side of the story.

This young woman was going through a local custom. When you turn 17 you marry Jesus and promise to be faithful to him until you get married. ( remain a virgin)

A fun afternoon riding through a forest.

They love their cigars. She was missing her two front teeth so the cigar fit perfectly.

Home made souvineers everywhere.

Colorful cars everywhere.

The local farmers dry their rice crop right on the road and they appreciate it if you don’t drive over it,

One of the beautiful hotels we stayed in. Most used to be the private homes of the wealthy and now their hotels.

This was a very modern hospital on top of the mountain we just rode up. It was built there for the clean air.

On the way down the mountain we stopped at this local cofffee shop in the rain forest.

This lady has owned the coffee shop for 60 plus years. She grows her own coffee beans in the back, roasts them, grinds them, and brews the coffee right there, coffee in Cuba comes in small cups of thick rich coffee. Almost like syrup.