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Warpy

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2. There's a bronze statue of John Lennon on a park bench
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 03:05 PM
Dec 2014

in a park in Havana. One of my prized pictures is of an online friend sharing the bench with him.

I know Cuba has been changing, there is a certain amount of private enterprise being allowed, shops opening up and that sort of thing, and that means a lot of repair work that was delayed for decades has been ongoing. Havana is becoming the jewel it once was, only this time the mob is being kept out and ordinary Cubans aren't starving in the shadows.

If travel happens before I kick the bucket, I want to meet some of the guys who kept those 1950s cars running, sand casting new parts for them when they crumped out. Anybody can screw new parts together. Old parts that have rusted solid in salt air and failed, with no replacements on any shelf, anywhere, are a much bigger challenge.

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