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From: Washington County, Vermont, USA

Bikes: 1966 Dawes Double Blue, 1976 Raleigh Gran Sport, 1975 Raleigh Sprite 27, 1980 Univega Viva Sport, 1971 Gitane Tour de France, 1984 Lotus Classique, 1976 Motobecane Grand Record

My friend Wally Smith and his wife have done a number of bike tours in Cuba, and say that it's a wonderful place. He wrote a guidebook about it:

Bicycling Cuba: Fifty Days of Detailed Rides from Havana to Pinar Del Rio and the Oriente: Wally Smith, Barbara Smith: 9780881505535: Amazon.com: Books

that strikes me as clear and detailed, as well as fun to read.

He actually got in big trouble with the state department when they saw the book, and ultimately had to pay a substantial fine, I think. (Regular non-book-writing visitors had no such problems.) It looks like those bad old days might be behind us now.
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