Comments on: Things I learnt this past month http://www.writing.adancingstar.com/2007/things-i-learnt-this-past-month/ a life's reading Thu, 25 Jun 2009 02:48:30 +0000 hourly 1 By: tom http://www.writing.adancingstar.com/2007/things-i-learnt-this-past-month/comment-page-1/#comment-17024 tom Sun, 06 Apr 2008 05:41:04 +0000 http://www.writing.adancingstar.com/?p=263#comment-17024 Yes, and they quickly found my stash of cigars, too. Luckily, the honeymoon story and my wife's charm meant we managed to bring them home. <br />Actually, the only reason we traveled half way around the world was our sense of Cuba's lost-world exoticism; and in all honesty, looking back, I struggle to find a single reason for returning to Havana. <br />I find this turning in of passenger manifests to the government more than a little eerie, just as much of the DHS's policies and activities. But that is another matter altogether. Yes, and they quickly found my stash of cigars, too. Luckily, the honeymoon story and my wife’s charm meant we managed to bring them home.

Actually, the only reason we traveled half way around the world was our sense of Cuba’s lost-world exoticism; and in all honesty, looking back, I struggle to find a single reason for returning to Havana.

I find this turning in of passenger manifests to the government more than a little eerie, just as much of the DHS’s policies and activities. But that is another matter altogether.

]]> By: matt http://www.writing.adancingstar.com/2007/things-i-learnt-this-past-month/comment-page-1/#comment-17018 matt Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:11:21 +0000 http://www.writing.adancingstar.com/?p=263#comment-17018 did you tell customs that? i hear fines are more common than ever, and flight lists being turned over by Mexico and Canada too... we did a little research and decided to put off Cuba for a while...a short while. did you tell customs that? i hear fines are more common than ever, and flight lists being turned over by Mexico and Canada too…

we did a little research and decided to put off Cuba for a while…a short while.

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