travel
American people key to normalization of U.S.-Cuba ties
March 11, 2015Those who care deeply about peace and friendship between peoples should be part of every key battle ahead.
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Ban on travel to Cuba still in place
February 13, 2015The Cuban 5 are free, and difficult but promising negotiations have been going on in Havana about the restoration of full diplomatic relations.
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Couch-surfing: a revolutionary movement
January 30, 2015Looking at it through a wide-angled lens, we've been staying at people's houses for hundreds of years; saving money, meeting people, really immersing ourselves in the culture.
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A month in my home country: What a trip!
July 14, 2014What a trip! I had last visited my American home country three years earlier; during my visit last month I saw that some things hadn't changed much, some things had.
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Writing on Amtrak
March 20, 2014Soon we'd be snaking through the freight yards and pulling into the Amtrak platform at L.A.'s Union Station. It was a dramatic opening scene - almost cinematic - filled with promise.
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