About captaineddy
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I survived the 1979 revolution in Grenada and almost took a pic of Maurice Bishop aka the revolutuion's leader. I stayed at an all inclusive resort in Cuba but had to get out and escaped by bus to Havana. There's some great music in bars and clubs in Varadero but the package people are too lazy to leave their resorts. Met my wife-to-be on a frieghter in the Java Sea.
The Mekong Express in Cambodia rocks.
The night bus in Vietnam does not.
Mexicans are great cooks.
I've had my haircut in Java, Australia, San Francisco Chinatown, Isla Mujeres (the best), and Vietnam (cross-eyed barber who also cleaned my ears).
My Travel Map:
