(Ed.'s Note: Remember when your friends went on vacation and brought you back a T-shirt that said something like "My friend went to ---- and all I got was this lousy T-shirt?"
Well, a friend of ours just returned from Havana, Cuba after traveling to Houston, Miami, and then to Havana, all on Southwest Airlines. Besides a few trinkets like a bongo drum key chain, he left the best for last: a Cohiba Esplendido hand-rolled Cuban cigar.
The Cohiba was well known to be Fidel Castro's (Peace be with him) favorite stogie and he enjoyed The Cohiba was well know to be Fidel Castro's (Peace be with him) favorite stogie and he enjoyed one every chance he could get.
We're not communists sympathizers, but the man knew his cigars. We don't know whether to smoke this on a special occasion (if Beto O'Rourke beats Ted Cruz for a the Texas U.S. Senate seat, for example), or if we will just keep it as a memento. It is unique, in that sense.
Our friend regaled us with stories about traveling in Havana in a vintage 1959 Ford Fairlane and visiting some of colonial Havana where vintiga buildings dating back to the Spanish colony sist side by side with modern hotels being constructed by Canadians. And then there are the Cuban ladies which range from fair-complected tones to mulattas and blacks.
Our buddy was traveling with his better half so he couldn't ogle as much as he would have liked, of course. But some of the video he took with his phone gave us a idea of the multi-cultural society which is today's Cuba.
Short of going to Havana, the Cohiba is the next-best thing to being there.
7 comments:
They sell them at Garcia's no big deal for abt 30 bucks @...
I was in Cuba last year reminded me of being in a third world country. If you work for the govt. they let you have a car. If your lucky when you wake up you have water in the house, if they let you have a house. Yes cigars are good, if you can get a job so you can buy one. Great place won't be long before we get to have that here!
probably rolled by a 7 year old taking in all the nicotine via direct contact. ENJOY!
Lit it up Juanito, Cigars tend to loose its flavor after a while.
Only a "Pendejo" would pay over $30 for any type of cigar, aficionado or not!!
You can smoke it when Beto receives the Wendy Davis Memorial participation award.
Pendejo republicans pay more
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