Great medicine

My wife and I will be attending your Peru show on Dec. 20th. We hope to bring along a few more people who would enjoy your adventure if they can break away. I'm coming for the pie!
I finished your Handsomest Man in Cuba-----don't know what kept you from walking through that gate! Visualize a smile. I'd be happy to write a review for Amazon.Com and will put it together this weekend, Our Elderhostel tour (November 2003) also stopped at the hacienda of Pedro Iznaga. We were in enroute from Santa Clara to Trinidad. I agree the views of the valley are absolutely stunning and impossible to capture on film. The linen was hanging from those same lines. I bought my wife a tablecloth here. We (30 of us) were escorted in to the patio of the big house for lunch....white tablecloths, fine service, mojitos, and a lively group of musicians added to our fantasies while we ate. By the time we reached our tourist hotel for the night, 9 of our group including our leader were deathly sick. One of the men began so dehydrated that he was taken to a hospital in Trinidad for an overnight. All recovered but were pretty weak during the return trip to Havana. All the food was served hot except the salad. Of course, the unchosen were relieved that we had ducked the bullet without ever knowing how?? There were just a few times when you mentioned being sick but as I followed you on this trip, I marveled at how you kept these inferno bugs at bay. How did you manage for three months?

I wonder what you were able to discover about two areas of my interest. From your experiences are the government's promises of free health care being kept? Did the families talk about shortages of medicines? Did you visit any clinics? (I've been volunteering for a Medical Charity that sends meds and supplies to Cuba and am assuming the worst but wonder what you found.) Were the children in your families going to school?
I remember that universal access to medicine and education were special promises of the Revolution.

Anyway Lynette, It's a great book worthy of all the praise you have been receiving. Your Cuba, of course, is entirely different than the one I was allowed to see and cycling with you I've met interesting families and many of whom show incredibly generosity in the face of a daily struggle to get enough food to eat. Thanks for the ride. Conrad

Conrad,

The chapter called 'The World's Worst Sailor' might rupture that hernia ... better skip it for now or take a drammamine first!
Get well soon and thank you ...

Lynette