Breakfast at Restaurante Santiago
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Breakfast at Restaurante Santiago
Santiago de Cuba, Cuba
December 18, 2003

A last few shots of Santiago before we head off to the airport and our flight back to Havana. The trip is drawing to a close, and I am feeling pretty worn down by this time. The food has caught up with me and I am sick, so I don’t eat much of anything for the last couple of days. The tedium of days on the bus and the constant presence of people wear on me, a loner by nature. It is wonderful to be heading home soon, but I still try to experience everything I can even as I start thinking about packing things up. It will soon be almost impossible to travel to Cuba as a U.S. citizen, and memories like this – of busy street corners in a bustling Cuban city – are going to have to last me a long, long time.