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The plan was to do the longest bicycle tour in that country's history. From the Easternmost point to the Westernmost. Point to point, zigzagging my way through all 13 Provinces....

Kevin Foster's Tour de Cuba (1996)

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2004-09-15 10:40:19

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restaurant just as easily. Si, he smiled, but then we have to pay for the food in dollars. He brought back two hot plates of cooked fish, fried yucca, and congri, what we would call in the States, rice and beans. The cost: 20 pesos a plate.
The next day, we reluctantly left our comfortable surroundings to enter into the land of the dreaded "cocorice." Since yesterday, Alfredo had been telling me about these mysterious creatures, but could never explain them well enough to make me understand what he was talking about. Now, we were going to come face to face with them.
Kebin, come quick and see the cocorice, exclaimed Alfredo. My curiosity was at a peak. There! Do you see them? Couldn't say that I did. They are right there in front of you! I peered past the enclosed fence, but still couldn't make out anything in the swampy jungle. Alfredo was getting flustered, and I was getting impatient.
What are you talking about? Those rocks over there? And then one of them moved, and the other turned toward us with an evil looking grin. Crocodiles!

Si. That is what I have been trying to tell you, said Alfredo, matter of fact. We are in a natural preserve. And the preserve was 30 miles in length.
That is not what you've been trying to tell me, I screamed, looking all about me. That is no where near what you've been trying to say!
I kept a guarded watch the entire day, praying I didn't have to have a serious bowel movement. I had yet to crap on a crock, and wasn't about to start now.
By day's end we had reached the tiny town of Guines, only an hour's drive from Havana. Alfredo was itching to detour. I ignored his pleas. Placing a call to Lucia Newman at the CNN office, she filled me in on some details. The Story went worldwide just before Thanksgiving, and upset quite a few politicians in DC. ...