I Want To Travel To Cuba Essay
THINGS EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO DO BEFORE TAKING A TRIP TO CUBA
Cuba has been on my “must see before I die” list for about ten years now. Something about the impossibility of it made it more appealing to me. I wanted to experience a country that wasn’t dominated by consumerism, a place where new trends rarely reached, and most of all, I wanted to experience what it meant to live a Cuban life. And now, since President Obama took a trip to start mending the not-so-stable relations between both countries, I knew it was my last chance to visit before McDonalds and Starbucks began plopping their consumerist claws on the island.
What I didn’t know at the time, was that this trip would put my travel booking skills to the test. Of course, because I’m being cheap and refuse to pay for a travel agent to book my trip from start to finish when I have a brain, and Google at my fingertips.
Then I fell flat on my face when I learned that Cuba has extremely limited access to internet creating a predicament for someone like me, who likes to research details about a country before diving in head first.
Due to the lack of information available about Americans going to Cuba, I figured I would make …show more content…
Ima be real; I’ve never bought travel insurance or international health insurance before, which is probably careless, whoops. After closing several tabs that quoted about $200 for unnecessary insurance policies, I came across this company Right Roam, that had basic insurance for a month of coverage for only $15. The bonus with this was that they didn’t only cover health incidents, the policy also had trip coverage listed, and $300 of reimbursement if luggage was lost, among other things that gave me more peace of mind when planning such a stressful
Cuba has been on my “must see before I die” list for about ten years now. Something about the impossibility of it made it more appealing to me. I wanted to experience a country that wasn’t dominated by consumerism, a place where new trends rarely reached, and most of all, I wanted to experience what it meant to live a Cuban life. And now, since President Obama took a trip to start mending the not-so-stable relations between both countries, I knew it was my last chance to visit before McDonalds and Starbucks began plopping their consumerist claws on the island.
What I didn’t know at the time, was that this trip would put my travel booking skills to the test. Of course, because I’m being cheap and refuse to pay for a travel agent to book my trip from start to finish when I have a brain, and Google at my fingertips.
Then I fell flat on my face when I learned that Cuba has extremely limited access to internet creating a predicament for someone like me, who likes to research details about a country before diving in head first.
Due to the lack of information available about Americans going to Cuba, I figured I would make …show more content…
Ima be real; I’ve never bought travel insurance or international health insurance before, which is probably careless, whoops. After closing several tabs that quoted about $200 for unnecessary insurance policies, I came across this company Right Roam, that had basic insurance for a month of coverage for only $15. The bonus with this was that they didn’t only cover health incidents, the policy also had trip coverage listed, and $300 of reimbursement if luggage was lost, among other things that gave me more peace of mind when planning such a stressful