{"id":117303,"date":"2021-03-25T05:02:19","date_gmt":"2021-03-24T20:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=117303"},"modified":"2021-03-24T14:25:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-24T05:25:39","slug":"belong-in-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=117303","title":{"rendered":"Belonging in Cuba"},"content":{"rendered":"

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traveling to Cuba alone was probably the scariest backpacking trip of my life. \u00a0no cel service, no internet, or no ways of communication. \u00a0i just went and went with the flow. \u00a0and since it was closed to Americans when i went, i had to go through Mexico to get there.<\/p>\n

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i was reading a tip on traveling. \u00a0it says “if you are traveling- especially if you are in an unknown area- try to look like you belong. \u00a0you are less likely to be mugged. \u00a0Also, walk confidently.” \u00a0this is good advice because this is exactly how i’ve been traveling for the past 30 years. \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

back to Cuba. \u00a0walking down alleys like this, you better not look like a tourist or you will get mugged. \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

i tried so many different things there. \u00a0this Cuban beer was so good! \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

and this Cuban cola wasn’t the best. \u00a0i prefer coke.\"\"<\/p>\n

once again, walking down dark alleys by yourself, you better walk with confidence. \u00a0even though i was super scared, you would have never known.\"\"<\/p>\n

then i started hanging around Cubans so i felt very safe. \u00a0these guys were so funny! \u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

and walking back to my room late at night was pretty scary. \u00a0i wasn’t walking with confidence, i was running with confidence. \u00a0haha.\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

Cuba was a country that i only wanted to visit once in my lifetime. \u00a0so i tried to do and see as much as possible each day i was there. \u00a0and since i love the ocean, i went to this beautiful beach. \u00a0a definite highlight of my trip…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

traveling to Cuba alone was probably the scariest backpacking trip of my life. \u00a0no cel service, no internet, or no ways of communication. \u00a0i just went and went with the flow. \u00a0and since it was closed to Americans when i went, i had to go through Mexico to get there. i was reading a tip […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-117303","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirbyblog"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117303"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117314,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117303\/revisions\/117314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}