The Time We Hitchhiked from Cienfuegos to Trinidad

As I lay on my back on the bus stop bench in Yanaguaba, Cuba, my two travel companions (Helen and Andy) and I were debating whether or not to pay the unreasonable amount of 15CUC to take a taxi that would bring us just 15 minutes down the road to our final stop: Trinidad.

We’d begun our day’s journey at about 9AM, after a delicious home-cooked breakfast at Casa de Maria in Cienfuegos. Although the journey between Cienfuegos and Trinidad generally only takes about an hour, we were feeling pretty accomplished having gotten ¾ of the way by 3PM…