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Number of cycle tours undertaken prior to Cuba: 0
Most kms cycled in one day: 105
Total kms cycled: 797
Average speed in km/h (due to gear, heat, poor roads, and poor conditioning): 13
Cities/towns slept in: 16
Nights spent in Cuba: 33
Nights woken by a rooster at 4:30 AM: 31
Days it took for us to get sick, most likely from the street food: 2
Street pizzas eaten, despite thinking that street food is what caused our being sick: 21
Flat tires: 3
Minutes to change the first flat: 27
Minutes to change the third flat: 14
Taxis taken in Havana: 5
Taxi drivers in Havana who had to stop to ask directions: 5
Waiting for replacement bus in Vinales
Dogs wearing ratty old t-shirts: 9
Flip-flops stolen by a dog: 2
Flip-flops found: 1
Men recruited to help search for missing flip flop: 6
Buses taken: 5
Hours spent on buses: 31
Hours spent waiting for a broken down bus: 2
Cyclists met on the road from:
…Canada: 1
…Spain: 1
…Austria: 2
…France: 2
…Germany: 3
…Netherlands: 2
…Cuba: 1
Times we had to beg for a room to sleep in because accommodations were full: 1
Official currencies: 2
Price for Cubans to take ferry to Cayo Granma in Santiago de Cuba: 1 national peso
Price for tourists to take ferry to Cayo Granma in Santiago de Cuba: 1 CUC (equivalent to 25 national pesos)
Hours spent on Internet: 4
Hours spent waiting for pages to load: 3.5
Beach days during:
…first half of trip: 0
…second half of trip: 1
Seconds it took to decide on a return trip: 0.5
For more images from Cuba, check out Carlo’s Photo Essay: Cycling Cuba.