My trip to Cuba

The customs docks at Marina Hemingway.
If you arrive in Cuba by boat you will have to go through four teams of inspections. When we arrived all the inspection teams were working overtime. The first person to inspect your boat is the doctor. I do not know what this inspection should have been like. As the doctor who inspected our boat was very old and not thinking straight and became very emotional (weeping over the name of our boat) the other inspectors apologized for the doctors behavior saying "he was drunk". An agriculture inspector came on and ask a few question about chicken and eggs then left. The customs inspectors came on board and mostly wanted to know what electronic gear we had (GPS radios etc..). Last but not least is the Guardia or Cuban Coast Guard. All the inspectors were friendly and we offered juice and cookie to all who came aboard. The Guardia wanted a little more than juice and cookies and they got what they came for after a complete inspection of the boat.

The U.S policy on travel to Cuba, Is don't go and if you do go, you better not spend any money while in Cuba. This policy is not very likely to change, because Florida is just too important to the presidential election. Just a few hundred vote in Florida can make all the diffrence If the policy were changed, and We treated Cuba like we now treat China the President would lose a lot of Cuba American votes. Something you just can't risk doing if you want to be the President. Kind of a paradox, but only the Cuba Americans are allowed to send US dollars to Cuba, and by doing so they have made the US dollar the standard currency of Cuba. You would be hard pressed to find anyone willing to take the Cuba Peso, they only take US dollars.

Children having artclass on the sidewalks of Old Havana