In 2017 two friends and I went to Havana. I liked it a lot. It was very weird. When we went, Cuba had two different currencies–one for foreigners (CUC) and one for locals (CUP). (I’ve read that this has since changed.) The two currencies worked because Cuba is socialist(-ish) so prices and salaries are fixed […]
Tag: travel
Trail of stuff
I hate leaving cars in parking lots overnight. Partly, it just makes me kind of sad to think of the car all alone over one night, or two, or three, in a strange parking lot in a wild place. I also hate the possibility of the car not being there when I get back. There’s […]
Tourist, part 1
The picture: I don’t like looking at it but I made myself look at it to write this post. It’s me and four Mayan girls. The tallest one comes up to my shoulder and the shortest one just barely reaches my hip. They are wearing skirts, sweaters and shawls all in different colors: earthy golds […]
Tall trees and surfing in the PNW
A few years ago, in the months when leaves fall from trees, Bill and I drove to Washington. We stayed in Seattle and then Port Angeles and then one day we drove south, and kind of west, from there. We got to Forks in time for a late lunch and we visited the Sasquatch store. […]
Participation points
Starting a few weeks ago I’ve been commuting from Boulder to Denver for work. It’s pretty. When I leave home I can see the mountains–they’re snow covered right now. First I get on Foothills which is a six lane Boulder thoroughfare. Then I merge onto 36. When I first started commuting I loved getting on […]
Ride slow
Ethan and I went to see The Divide at the Boulder Theater a few weeks ago. It’s a one hour documentary that follows Lachlan Morton as he rides the Continental Divide bike route at a record-setting pace. I’ve never really known much about Lachlan Morton and I’ve always been a bit averse to him (which […]
Let’s make a bargain
A long time ago I went to Morocco. We flew to Marrakech which I’d heard was the place to visit in Morocco and anyway there were direct flights from Madrid for thirty dollars. (In hindsight something about that just doesn’t seem right.) Marrakech: a city of lights and smoke, narrow alleys made of cobbled stone, […]
Water bound
I had a dream last night that we visited an archipelago. We traveled from island to island through aqueous passageways. I rowed a boat and you swam alongside me. (When I woke up and remembered this it made me laugh because why wouldn’t we have shared the boat? But in my dream–typical dream–the strange did […]
Obsolescence
I bought a Surly Long Haul Trucker in the summer of 2015 and if you know Surlys you know. But if you don’t: the Surly LHT was the first of its kind. There are many options now, and arguably better ones, but the LHT was the the only bike being produced in the nineties and […]
How was the drive
I went to a wedding in Kansas City last month. Lucky me, I snagged a room at this cute boutique hotel called No Vacancy where the rest of the wedding party was staying. I was rushing to get unpacked in my room when an old high school friend showed up in my doorway. We hugged […]
Anne Foster 